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UNITED FUND-RAISING SPRING FAIR STARTED BY TKU BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION

Co-held by TKU Business and Management Association and Chinese Business and Management Association, “United Fund-raising Spring Fair by Four Colleges in Northern Taiwan” will take place on Poster Street in TKU for a period of one week, starting from Monday. All the money raised by this campaign will be donated to Creation Social Welfare Foundation. We invited everyone to join this meaningful campaign.

“WALKING AROUND TAIWAN”－TEN TKU ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONS SHOW YOU DIVERSE CULTURAL FEATURES OF TAIWAN

Ten TKU alumni associations in different counties and cities (including Pintung, Kaohsiung, Tainan, Chiyun, Changhua, Taichung, Hsinchu, Hualian, Penghu, and Kinmen) are going to hold a cultural display, “Walking around Taiwan,” at both the Exhibition Hall of Business Management Building (BMB) and the side road of Chueh-sheng Memorial Library from March 7 to March 11. The opening ceremony will take place in Fu-Yen Chinese Garden at 10:00 a.m. this morning.

CHIU JEONG-YEOU, PROF. OF DEPT. OF INFORMATION AND LIBRARY SCIENCE,

Chiu Jeong-yeou Associate Professor of Dept. of Information and Library Science and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Educational Media and Library Sciences (JoEMLS), cooperated with Airiti Digital Corporation to develop the Airiti online Submission and Peer Review System (ASPERS). Last Thursday (March 3), Prof. Chiu displayed this new system at Room 507, College of Liberal Arts, and he indicated that it will be tried out on JoEMLS first.

Sakura Blossoming!

ONE MORE JAPANESE UNIVERSITY TIED SISTER KNOT WITH TKU

263 STUDENTS WERE SUBJECT TO DISMISSAL BY SCHOOL AUTHORITIES LAST SEMESTER

According to the Office of Academic Affairs, 263 students (about 1% of the total of students) were expelled from school last semester because they failed more than one-half (or two-third for overseas Chinese students) of the total credit hours for the second time within an academic year, 14 less than the number last year. Among them, five were M.A. students, subverting the impression that graduate students are hard to be dismissed.

28 STUDENTS GRADUATE IN ADVANCE THIS SEMESTER

Every year during the March, many graduating students are busy with either the graduate school entrance examination or job hunting. But this year, 28 students have already gained the total credits required for graduation and got their diplomas in advance at this time. Some of these students have passed graduate school entrance examination through Recommendation/Screening Way, some are still preparing for the exam, and others have even got a full-time job. According to the Office of Academic Affairs, the numbers of graduate-in-advance this academic year are more than the ones (26 persons) last year, and it is also the maximum numbers over the years.

CHAO-KANG FENG VISITED ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY

On February 28, Vice President and Chair of Group of Cross-strait Academic Exchange Chao-kang Feng led a visiting group, members including Dean of Academic Affairs Huan-chao Keh, Dean of the College of Business Fung-shyung Shiau, Dean of Student Affairs Ding-an Chiang, Director of Lanyang Campus and Chair of Department of International Business Chi-hung Lin, to Zhejiang University for academic exchange and various plans of students exchange between two universities.

9 PROGRAMS TO MEET MOE’S ADMINISTRATIVE PRINCIPLES

MOE hosted a “Symposium on the Administrative Principles of University Education” on March 3, 2005 at the Central Joint Office Building, Taipei. Administrative chiefs of six universities and seven colleges, including TKU, National Cheng Kong University, National Sun Yat-sun University, participated in the meeting. TKU Secretary-General of Office of the Secretariat, Dr. Tung Wan, attended the forum and reported on nine programs to meet the MOE’s administrative principles, which won MOE’s high recognition.

MOE OFFICIALS VISIT LANYANG CAMPUS TO SURVEY THE INSTITUTION PROJECTS AND MONITOR

To evaluate if Lanyang Campus can initiate the recruiting as scheduled this September, a surveying committee of Ministry of Education (MOE) will visit the campus this Friday. The MOE officials will attend the TKU briefing about the institution projects for the first year as well as the progress of hardware and software construction, and then see through the campus.