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WORLD TOP 1 %: COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING ENLISTED IN ESI

According to a recent issue of Evaluation Bimonthly, published by Higher Education Evaluation & Accreditation Council of Taiwan, Tamkang University was listed in the Essential Science Indicators (ESI), under the ranking category of Engineering Subjects. Dr. Yu Gwo-hsing, Dean of College of Engineering, indicated that “being listed in ESI means to be regarded as among the world top 1 % in the field.” ESI is an evaluation system created by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) to rank the most favorite academic institutes, whose paper citation frequency is listed among world top 1%. There are only 22 Taiwan universities listed in ESI. Tamkang University elbows into the list right next to Taiwan University, Tsing Hua University, and Chiao Tung University. TKU’s total quantity of paper is ranked as world No. 413, and the citation frequency is No. 641 in ESI.

COLLEGES OF BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT APPLY FOR AACSB RECOGNITION

College of Business and College of Management recently are applying for the recognition of The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). Dr. Hu Yi-jen, Dean of College of Business and coordinator of the project, indicated that winning an international recognition is like obtain an acclaimed brand, which will increase the popularity of student recruitment as well as academic reputation.

CONFERENCE ON RUSSIA THIS SATURDAY

Organized by Graduate Institute of Slavic Studies, “Conference on Current Russian National and International Affairs” will be held at Ching-Sheng International Conference Hall this Saturday (May 5th). Dmitry Petrovski (Bishop of Russian Orthodox Church) and O. Genisaretski (Vice Chair of Research Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Science in Russia) are invited to present papers.

COLLEGE OF SCIENCES PLANS NON-MAJOR SYSTEM IN FRESHMAN YEAR

College of Sciences is planning a non-major system in which freshmen are allowed to delay choosing their majors in math, physics or chemistry until sophomore or junior years to realize the educational ideal of “learning what your love and loving what your learn.” There will be a briefing on this new plan in the meeting on academic affairs on May 11th.

TWO AIT OFFICERS VISITED LANYANG CAMPUS AND GAVE A SPEECH ABOUT STUDYING ABROAD

Gene Tien and Judy Chow of public affairs section, American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), visited Lanyang Campus in the afternoon of April 24, and delivered an excellent speech for the students who are going to study abroad. In addition to introducing t...

2007 NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC GAME TO BE HELD FROM MAY 4 TO 8

40 PEOPLE CHALLENGE EPIC SWIM

The ROC Swimming Association held “The 8th Olympics Style Long Distance Swim at Hun Chun” in Southern Taiwan on April 22. 40 students and faculty from TKU, joined with other 4,000 swimmers from various parts of Taiwan and mainland China, and successfully completed the long distance swim of three kilometers.

8 STUDENTS SELECTED TO PARTICIPATE IN FUTUROLOGY CONFERENCE IN U.S.A.

The list of student participants in the 2007 World Futurology Workshop just came out!

LINCOLN RECITATION CONTEST REGISTRERING STARTS

Department of English will hold a “ Lincoln Recitation Contest ” at the Ching-sheng International Conference Hall at 6:10pm, May 15th. And the time for registering is from now until 4:20 pm, May 11th. All students’s participations are welcome.

LESS SATISFACTION FOR ALUMNI GRADUATING IN 2006

After Ministry of Education announced the result of general survey of post-graduate plans on students who graduated in 94th academic year, The Office of Alumni Services and Resources Development conducted an evaluation regarding the “Overviews of all alumni’s satisfaction of their employment situation and of their alma mater.” And the result shows that there is a slide decline as to the satisfaction of the school, departments, courses, and career development. But in general, the satisfaction rate is still up to 81.20%.