浙江越秀外国语学院是经国家教育部批准设立的全日制普通本科高校。学校坐落于中国首批历史文化名城、著名的江南水乡、鲁迅故里??浙江绍兴，始创于1981年，2008年经国家教育部批准升格为本科高校。
学校现有稽山、镜湖两个校区，占地面积近1300亩，校园建筑面积42万余平方米；图书馆馆藏纸质图书168万余册，电子图书102万册。
学校现有全日制在校生16000余名，教职员工1000余名，其中教师900余名，高级职称教师占专任教师的34%以上，具有硕士与博士学位教师占75%以上，有享受国务院特殊津贴专家2人，有现任或曾任教育部专业指导委员会委员4人；目前拥有来自美国、英国、加拿大、韩国、日本等国家的外籍教师百余名，其中博士外教17名。
学校设有英语学院、东方语言学院、西方语言学院、国际商学院、网络传播学院、中国语言文化学院、酒店管理学院、印第安纳波利斯大学国际学院、成人教育学院等9个二级学院，开设有27个本科专业，涵盖文学、经济学、管理学、艺术学等4个学科门类，含英语、法语、德语、俄语、西班牙语、意大利语、葡萄牙语、日语、韩语、阿拉伯语、印度尼西亚语等11个外语语种，是目前浙江省开设外语语种最多，也是省内唯一开设印度尼西亚语专业的本科高校，在小语种外语人才培养上具有丰富的办学资源和品牌优势。
学校已形成了以外国语言文学学科专业为重点，以文学学科专业为主干，以经济类、管理类、新闻传播类、艺术类学科专业为支撑的多学科相互交叉、协调发展的学科专业布局。外国语言文学入选省级一流（重点）学科，外国语言学及应用语言学和法语语言文学等学科为市级重点学科；朝鲜语专业为浙江省重点专业和省“十二五”优势专业，英语、法语、传播学、国际经济与贸易4个专业为浙江省新兴特色专业，英语和日语2个专业为绍兴市特色（重点）专业。
学校是“联合国学术影响”组织成员，科研、教研成果产出不断提升。2015年获得国家社科基金项目2项，获得省部级科研项目13项，立项市级以上各类教学改革项目38项。学校教学设备先进完备，建有1个省级外语实验教学中心，4个市级实验教学示范中心，配备有同声翻译实验室、语言实验室、国际经济与贸易专业实验室、工商管理专业实验室、网络编辑专业实验室、视频图片编辑专业实验室等教学实验设施设备；建有小语种外语学习沙龙、外语文化体验室、日本茶道馆、实验酒店以及SPT外语文化街等体验异国文化的校园文化设施；建有创业学院，大力拓展校外教学实习实训基地，为实践教学创造了完备的条件。
学校以“打造中国民办大学卓越品牌，建设百年名校”为愿景，坚持“应用型、国际化、高水平”的办学定位和“志存高远、脚踏实地，立足平凡、追求卓越”的信念，坚持“创新、协调、绿色、开放、共享”的发展理念，以“规范治校、质量立校、人才兴校、科研强校、特色建校”为办学指导方针，重点推进创新驱动战略、“外语+”战略、学科差异化发展战略、人才强校战略、国际化特色战略等“五大战略”，努力培养具有“国际视野、中国情怀、社会责任感”的应用型复合人才。
近年来，学校致力于探索与实践“12345 ”SPT应用型人才培养体系，在应用型外语人才培养质量方面已形成鲜明特色，人才培养质量得到社会各界和家长学生的充分肯定，毕业生初次就业率连续十年位于浙江省高校前列。在2013年浙江省教育厅发布的毕业生质量评估数据中，用人单位对我校毕业生质量的满意度得分排名位列全省本科高校第二。
学校大力推进国际化特色战略，国际合作办学成果显著。2013年、，在浙江省教育厅对外发布的浙江高校国际化总体水平排名中，学校连续两年在“浙江省其他本科院校国际化总体水平”排名中摘得桂冠。目前学校的国际合作项目已经覆盖11个外语语种，与美国、英国、加拿大、新西兰、俄罗斯、法国、德国、西班牙、意大利、韩国、日本、新加坡、台湾地区等18个国家和地区的67所大学或机构建立了实质性友好合作关系，每年派出700余名学生出国（境）进行长短期语言文化交流，开展本科双学位、本硕连读等留学项目；每年招收外国留学生300名左右。
在“和成?育秀”校训和“自信、和谐、竞成、人文”的校园文化引领下，学校开展具有国际特色、丰富多彩的学生活动，组建了浙江省高校第一支大学生教官队，目前有学生教官200余人。大学生教官队承担了学校每年的新生军训任务，同时也成为践行的标杆和校园文化建设的一道亮丽风景线。9月，浙江省军区教导大队授予学校为全省唯一的大学生教官培训中心??“浙江省国防教育基地大学生教官培训中心”。
学校倡导“奉献、友爱、互助、进步”的大学生志愿精神，全面开展各类志愿、义工服务，把社区义工作为课程纳入学分，并在第二届世界互联网大会和即将举行的G20峰会等重要场合，展示了越秀大学生志愿者的靓丽风采，在绍兴、浙江乃至全国都赢得了众多的荣誉和良好的口碑，形成了“越秀特色”的志愿服务品牌。
2015年5月13日下午，中共浙江省委书记夏宝龙同志来学校调研办学情况后，指出：“越秀很有活力，学校的办学目标很清晰，办学思路很明确，祝愿今后在创新、特色的道路上继续前行，发展得越来越好”。夏宝龙书记的评价，既是对学校办学的充分肯定，更是对学校今后发展的殷切期望。
在“十三五”期间，学校将全面贯彻落实“五大战略”举措，以育人为本、学术为魂、人才为先、责任为重，坚守大学之道；把人才培养、科学研究、服务社会、文化传承与创新之交汇融通作为学校肩负的使命，努力办好社会满意、学生满意、用人单位满意的高等教育，为中国民办高等教育、浙江与国家经济社会发展做出更大的贡献。
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ZYUFL in Brief
Zhejiang Yuexiu University of Foreign Languages (ZYUFL), a full-time institute offering regular undergraduate education, is located in Shaoxing, hometown of the famous writer Lu Xun and a well-known ancient city with rich cultural heritage. The history of ZYUFL dates back to its founding in 1981. After decades of development, it was accredited in 2008 by the National Ministry of Education of China as a four-year university.
The Psent ZYUFL comprises two campuses, i.e., Jishan Campus and Jinghu Campus, covering an area of 1,300 mu (approximately 214 hectares) with a total floor area of about 420,000 square meters. The library possesses a collection of 1.68 million conventional books/publications and 1.02 million e-books.
Presently, the University has an enrollment of over 16,000 full-time undergraduates against a teaching staff of more than 1,000. Over 34% of the 900 regular teachers are full or associate professors, and 75% have received master’s and/or doctoral degrees. Additionally, two faculty members are winners of the Special Government Allowance, while another four have been members of the Teaching Advisory Commission under the Ministry of Education. Also engaged in the university’s teaching affairs are 100 or so foreign teachers/experts (17 of whom have doctorate degrees in various majors) from such countries as the US, Britain, Canada, South Korea, Japan and so on.
The University consists of 9 colleges/schools, namely, College of English, College of Oriental Languages, College of Euro-languages, College of International Business, College of Network Communication, College of Chinese Language and Culture, International School of Hospitality Management, College of International Education, and School of Continuing Education. Up to 27 majors for undergraduates offered in ZYUFL have covered such academic areas as literature, economics, business management, and arts. The curriculum involves 11 foreign languages in it, including English, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic and Bahasa Indonesia. Being the only one university with a Bahasa Indonesia language program besides other languages, the university thus ranks the first in terms of sort and number of foreign languages ever offered in Zhejiang Province, showing its potential resources as well as the competence in foreign languages education.
ZYUFL has established an overall structure of majors and disciplines which revolve around a variety of foreign languages and literature, characterized by a focus on subjects of liberal arts and accompanied by a range of academic courses in economics, business management, network communication, etc. It facilitates the complementary interaction between subjects and disciplines, enabling their coordinated growth. Consequently, ZYUFL has won official recognition at different levels due to merits in its disciplinary construction and development. For instance, the university has been ranked in the provincial list of main subjects for its key discipline of Foreign Languages and Literature; in the municipal list for its key disciplines of Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics as well as French Language and Literature. Meanwhile, ZYUFL’s Korean language subject is recognized as a key major in Zhejiang Province and given priority for support. Some other majors including English, French, network communication, and international trade & finance, have been honored as emerging majors with distinctive local features. Besides, English and Japanese have drawn public attention in Shaoxing just because of their effective application and function in the city’s economic growth.
As a member of the United Nations Academic Impact, ZYUFL has made steady progress in scientific research. In the year 2015 alone, the University had 2 projects supported by National Social Science Foundation, 13 programs sponsored at provincial or ministerial level, and as many as 38 items concerning educational reform won project approval at the municipal level (Shaoxing).
ZYUFL possesses advanced equipment and facilities for teaching and practice. It boasts a provincial-level center for foreign language experiments, and four municipal-level demonstration centers for teaching practice. All the centers are equipped with laboratories of one kind or another, such as Simultaneous InterPting, Language Lab, Lab for International Business and Trade, and other relevant apparatus as well. On the other hand, there are language salons for minority language learners, classrooms for perceiving foreign cultures, Japanese tea ceremony, and SPT culture streets, all of which help create a virtual atmosphere for language learning. Besides, the university has already set up connections with a number of major bases outside the campus for teaching and on-the-spot practices.
Aiming to developing itself into a first-class non-public funded university and cultivating open-minded talents with international vision, ZYUFL has been guided with the conception of “management with high international standard” while taking a down-to-earth attitude in daily work, so as to carry out the general strategy of “a foreign language plus a specific objective” developed by the university leadership which contains a series of detailed plans and practical measures to ensure its fulfillment.
In recent years, ZYUFL has been experimenting on the established long-term policies of its talent cultivation system known as SPT (System of Professional Talent), which is conveniently termed as the “1-2-3-4-5” mode (the codes stand for a series of feasible measures to be taken). The SPT system has proved successful in cultivating foreign language talents with high quality, and the University has received positive feedback from the society, the students, and their parents as well. A convincing fact is that the students’ Initial employment rate has been on the top for ten consecutive years in the list concerning students from all colleges and universities in the province. Another assessment of graduates’ quality released by the provincial Bureau of Education in 2013 revealed that of all the four-year universities in Zhejiang Province, ZYUFL ranked the second place in terms of graduates’ quality to employers’ satisfaction.
The University has scored fruitful results in international exchange. An official investigation concerning the overall state in terms of internationalization indicates that ZYUFL ranked first for two consecutive years in 2013 and 2014 among all the universities in Zhenjiang Province. Currently, it has established intercollegiate cooperative ties with 67 higher education institutions and organizations from 18 countries or regions including U.S., UK, Canada, New Zealand, Russia, Spain, Germany, France, Italy, South Korea, Japan, Singapore and Taiwan, and the international collaborative programs involve 11 foreign languages. Every year the university will enroll 300 overseas students, while assigning about 700 students to colleges or universities overseas on a short term basis for intercollegiate cultural exchange, or on a long term basis for continuous academic projects that involve undergraduate and postgraduate studies.
Observing the school motto of “Harmony, Integrity, Cultivation, Success”, ZYUFL has organized a military training team, the first and the only one of its kind within universities and colleges in the province. About 200 students on the team serving as “officers” responsible for the regular military training for freshmen, which features a unique part of the ZYUFL culture. Consequently the university has been entitled as a model of “National Defense Education Base & Military Training Center” by the authorities concerned.
ZYUFL promotes the voluntary spirit of “Loving, Giving, Helping, Growing” among students and awards credits for their doing voluntary work or service in local communities or on other occasions, which has exerted positive effects, constituting a kind of voluntary service with its “ZYUFL characteristic”. A case in point is our students’ performance at the World Internet Conference in 2015. This year the students are to provide their voluntary service once more during the G20 Summit to be held in Hangzhou.
In may 2015, Xia Baolong, Party Secretary of Zhejiang Province, paid an inspection visit to ZYUFL, during which he pointed out with satisfaction that the university was making vigorous strides forward with clear and practical goals and had made great achievements. The secretary’s best wishes to and further expectations for the university will encourage the leadership and the staff to do better in future.
In the coming years of the 13th national five-year-plan, the university is to achieve its set goals with painstaking efforts and innovative practice, so as to be fully obliged to the duty of an accredited university in pursuing excellence in teaching and scientific research, in cultivating students in accordance with the requirements of the society and employers.
