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MOE UNIVERSITY ASSESSMENT TO INCLUDE GRADUATES’ CAREER DEVELOPMENT

For gaining a better insight in the future of Taiwan’s university graduates, Ministry of Education (MOE) contracted the National Taiwan Normal University to set up a database tracking the career development of recent graduates. MOE also decided to use such data as part of the university assessment; hence, those university programs that do not meet certain requirements two years in a row will be suspended.

MATH DEPT. WINS FOR EXCELLENT STUDENTS PROJECT

The Ministry of Education (MOE) awarded the project entitled “MOE incubation of future oriented scientists” that involves the Departments of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry of TKU for Excellent Work. Professor Lee Wu-yen of the Department of Mathematics, who heads the execution of the project, collected the award on November 25 on behalf of the team. His team was also invited to present the results of their work to their peers and the public on a future date.

WIND ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER SHOWS MODELS AT EXHIBITION

OPEN DOOR DAY AT THE DORM IN LANYANG

Despite the short history of Lanyang Campus, several traditions have been well established. One of them was the “dormitory competition” held on last Wednesday (22), which was running for the second year voting for the best-kept room. It was also an “Open Door” day, so anyone could drop by to check out how other people live. Since the dorm is not coed, it is fairly exciting for the opposite sex to visit each other’s living space. Are boys really worse off than girls or can boys be house-proud, too? That was a good day to find out.

A NEW ALUMNI ASSOCIATION SET UP IN GUANGDONG

The Tamkang Alumni Association for Business people in Guangdong held its inauguration meeting on November 16 in Dongguan, Guangdong, which was organized by Mr. Kuo Shan Hui, who graduated from Department of Cooperative Economics (now Department of Economics) and is the Director of the Samsong Global Corp. that has a base in Guangdong. Next year another alumni association of similar nature will be established in Wu-han, Hu-Pei Province, China.

66 FACULTY MEMBERS HONORED FOR EXCELLENT TEACHING

The names of the most outstanding teachers 2005 were announced last week with 66 professors made it to the list.(Details see below) According to a new regulation that was passed recently, each teacher on the list could be awarded with NT$ 20,000. An official ceremony celebrating this achievement is scheduled to be held at the end of the year.

DOCTOR’S ORDER: DO NOT STAY UP LATE

The results of freshmen’s physical check-up have come out and most of the 4791 tested students got a thumb up.

FRENCH DEPARTMENT ALUMNI ASSOCIATION CELEBRATES 43TH ANNIVERSARY

The Department of French held an alumni meeting on November 18 at Taipei Campus, celebrating the alumni association’s 43th anniversary. During which, Laio Hui-nan a 1978 graduate, was voted to be the next Director by the approximately 30 alumni that were present.