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A SHAKE-UP IN THE APPOINTMENTS OF FULL AND PART-TIME FACULTY

Future appointments of faculty members will adopt a more flexible system than has been used so far. The new system will allow TKU to appoint teachers with specialty and research expertise more aggressively from all fields. Such a decision was drawn at a symposium for the re-structure of teaching and administration TKU held last month, whereby the Director of the Personnel Office, Lo Yunn-chyr first spelt out the concept of revising the ways the university has appointed faculty and their remuneration scale.

INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IS THE TICKET TO THE FUTURE

Takmang Times invited Wu Maw-kuen, the Minister of the National Science Council (NSC), and Mai Chau-chen, a professor at the Department of Industrial Economics, also a former director of the Chung Hua Institution for Economic Research (CHIER) to give a talk on the relationship between natural sciences and social sciences on Thursday, November 18. They both espoused the view on this occasion that interdisciplinary research was a must in all kinds of research projects despite the difficulties in their execution

STATE-OF-THE-ART EQUIEPMENT PURCHASED FOR CHEMICAL STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

In order to raise the bar of teaching and research standard at TKU, the university purchased a German made 600MHz Fourier Transformation Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer (FT-NMR) with a budget of over NT$ 20,000,000. This high-tech instrument analyzes chemical structure with high precision and is a prize possession of only two other institutions on this island—National Tsing Hwa University and Academia Sinica.

TKU PRESIDENT STARTS HER WALK-ABOUT IN EACH DEPARTMENT

It is not new that most departments suffer from crammed space, lack of manpower and a shortfall of funding. All these problems were vocalized once again to the university last month when the President, Flora Chang and Vice Presidents, Feng Chao-kang and Kao Po-yuan as well as the Dean of the Office of Academic Affairs, Keh Huan-chao visited all colleges in order to visualize clearly the plights of each individual college. During this visit, the President promised the College of Engineering (CE) that the university would deal with their problems such as that of space first as a gesture of appreciating their academic achievement is recent years. However, in demonstrating her even-handiness in all issues, the President with her entourage will begin a walk-about tour in various colleges and administrative units this Wednesday, November 24, to understand first-hand what contribution the university can provide in resolving the problems mentioned above. Based on the information gathered in this tour, the university will determine a list of priority in terms of emergency, available manpower and resources it is able to render in assistance.

IMMIGRATION POLICY TO CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICAN WILL BE EXAMINED

Due to the historical close ties most Latin American countries sustain with Taiwan, numerous questions regarding immigration and aids rendered to them are begging for answers. In response to that, a symposium on the relationship between Taiwan and Latin America 2004 will be opened at 1:30 p.m. this Friday, November 26 in Taipei Campus. The topic of this occasion is the “Dissection of the Policy of Immigration from Taiwan to Central and South America”.

TKU STRIKES TO RECRUIT MORE STUDENTS

The Office of the Academic Affairs (OAA) and the Office of Alumni Services and Resources Development (OASRD) have jointly conjured up a series of promotional activities in two stages to recruit students. The first stage covers now to the end of December whereas the second stage refers to the period between March and April next year. During both periods, pupils, their parents and principals of some forty high schools will be invited to TKU for orientation. The list of the schools is compiled by statistics result of the schools whose graduates have constituted TKU’s students’ population in recent years.

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY IS TO VISIT ENTERPRISES TO FEEL THE PULSE OF THE JOB MARKET

In preparing the ability of students adapting to the demanding job market they are about to face, the Department of Chemistry has some visits to the enterprises in the pipeline. From December onward, there will be roughly 123 first and second year students to call on some outstanding alumni and their enterprises as a way of feeling the pulse of the job market. The presentation preparing for their visit will be held on Wednesday, November 24.

TAMKANG GOES CRAZY OVER ‘OHARA’, A LABRADOR FOR THE BLIND

REACH FOR THE STARS—TKU MUSIC BANDS AWAIT BREAKTHROUGH

CHAIRS OF STUDENT CLUBS TO MEET FLORA CHANG

TKU President, Flora Chang is to meet the chairs of all student clubs at the Chueh Sheng International Conference Hall at noon this Wednesday, November 24. Senior administrators in academic, student and general affairs will also attend the meeting to have an open talk with the clubs on various issues.