第三部分　建国后第一所女子大学（1984—2003）
  拨乱反正的1978年，党的十一届三中全会做出了实行党的工作中心战略转移的重大决策。在“以经济建设为中心”的战略思想指引下，各条战线的工作逐渐步入正轨。邓小平同志高瞻远瞩地指出：“大力发展生产力必须重视科技和教育”，从而给教育改革注入了强大的活力。1984年，党中央做出了《关于经济体制改革的决定》，在教育体制改革方面推出了“打破国家统揽教育的局面，实行多层次、多形式办学”的改革路径，进而为教育体制改革尤其是新一轮民办教育的产生，创造了良好的社会环境。
  1984年，在陕西省教育界人士的呼吁下，在省政府、省政协的大力支持下，西安培华女子大学成立。她是早期“培华”的继承和重建，是改革开放后全国首批、西部首所经教育部备案批准成立的民办普通高等学校。至21世纪初，“培华女大”已创办了包含文、法、经济、艺术等学科的57个专业（含成人教育），成为一所闻名全国的民办普通高等院校。

The year 1978 witnessed the important change of bringing order out of chaos in modern history. At the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh National Conference of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, a new and critical decision had been made by the central governmental to start working on the strategic transfer. Under guidance of the new strategic thinking of “Taking Economic Construction as Center," which was deeply engraved in people’s minds at the time, work in all fields of life started to gradually progress on the right track. Deng Xiaoping pointed out with great foresight that "science and technology, as well as education, must be stressed in the development of productivity," which instilled great vitality into education reform. In 1984, the central government announced the Decision on the Reform of the Economic System, which was to be implementated in all walks of life. In the field of higher education, the proposed approach was to break through the unified state owned education system and to implement education in all levels and forms. This led to a new round of attempt to establish changes in private education, and generated favorable conditions for their growth.