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“BEYOND EXCELLENCE: REFORMULATING TAMKANG EDUCATIONAL CORE VALUES”

FORMER MINISTER OF EDUCATION DR. YUNG CHAUR-SHIN INITIATED THE SEMINAR

Dr. Yung Chaur-shin, former Minister of Education, and Chair Professor of Institute of Educational Policy and Leadership, presented a keynote speech, “Challenge, Improvement, and Excellence,” to initiate the 2006 school year The Seminar in Instructional and Administrative Reforms. Dr. Yung analysed the recent problems faced by the local universities as well as the new prospect of university management in the global age. He advised the TKU staff “not to be drowned in the flood of marketing, but to hold fast the founding ideals of a university.”

THREE CHECKS HIGH REWARD TO WORLD HONORS

“GLOCAL” MANAGEMENT ON DIVERSITY

More than 10 media reporters from Taipei and Lanyang were invited to the conference on Lanyang campus, and many of them showed great interest to school system.

A NEW EXPERIENCE IN LANYANG CAMPUS

At the dinner party, important guests come to the Hotel Royal

SUMMARY OF FOUNDER CLEMENT C. P. CHANG’S ADDRESS,“TAMKANG’S ORGINIZATIONAL CULTURE AND FOURMANAGEMENT MODELS”

Tamkang’s administrative teams and three management models have been thriving for fifty six years, and the fourth model, “Entrepreneurial Model,” is leading Tamkang into the fourth wave and assisting administrative teams’ continuous innovations and breakthroughs which may turn into incalculable developing potentials. Clark (see Altbach 2005, p. 9) succinctly depicts these four models:

SIX REPORTS ON NEW KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZED BY FOUNDER CHANG SINGLE-HANDEDLY

Founder Clement C. P. Chang decided the theme of the convention, “Beyond Excellence: Reformulating Tamkang Educational Core Values,” from his reading of Excellence without a Soul, a new book by H. Lewis, Dean of College of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University. He emphasized the importance of self-evaluation and critique following the example by a historically first-class university.

PURSUING THE EXCELLENT INTROSPECTION:

In his book Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education, Harry R. Lewis blasts Harvard University, a typical research university, for it neglects the object of establishing universities and the purpose of education during its p...

CHALLENGING NATURE: BIOTECHNOLOGY HAS GREAT IMPACT ON HUMAN BEINGS (Presented by Yu Gwo-hsing,)

In the book Challenging Nature, the author L. M. Silver proposes two arguments. Firstly, people over the past hundred years could never expect the great progress of our modern technology as we cannot foresee the future, so we do not have to worry and control the development of technology. Secondly, from the angle of ethics, the author considers that as long as the things are helpful to human health and the quality of life, people should develop these things without reserve.

“J-CURVE”: CREATING A SHORT CUT TO SPEED UP THE EFFECTIVE REFORMATION (Presented by Chen Dun-chi)

Jerald M. Jellison, the well-known professor of University of Southern California, proposes the idea of “J-Curve,” a notion of management. He considers that the “J-Curve” is not only a curve to help to apprehend subordinates’ emotional reaction and professional performance toward reformation, but also a reverse curve that can guide leaders to speed up effective reformation and raise corporate business achievement of the organization. The following is a summary of the major management tips revealed by the “J-Curve.”

SHAPING A REFORMATION-FRIENDLY ENTERPRISE CULTURE THROUGH SCENARIO PLANNING (Presented by Chen Chien-fu)

In the book The Scenario Planning Handbook：Developing Strategies in Uncertain Times, Ralston and Wilson, the scenario planning experts of SRI International, introduce in details how policy-makers in the enterprise or organization solve the unforeseea...

THE RISE OF CHINA : A THIRD PERSPECTIVE (Presented by Guo Jiann-chung)

Responding to our discussion on how to go beyond excellence, a third perspective, that is, the perspective of transformationalists, is introduced in Kuo’s presentation. From the angles of complicated politics, diplomacy, national security and global economics, Kuo attempts to illustrate the influence of China’s sudden rise on Taiwan, America, and the world, and its enlightenment on TKU’s project to go beyond excellence. The transformationalists consider that one of the important reasons that the economics of China can successfully and rapidly develop is to improve the primary education.

ANTI-AMERICANISM AND GLOBAL AMERICANIZATION:

In order to understand the disparity of recognition and value between America and other countries, the world well-known public opinion poll institution Pew Center recently carries out a project called “Poll on Global Attitudes,” the largest-scale investigation ever been made throughout the history. The poll discovers that the anti-Americanism boomed in the beginning of 20th century has close relationship to the “American exceptionalism.”