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DEPT. OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING WON TWO GOLD MEDALS IN FIRA WORLD CUP GAME

RECOMMENDED GRADUATE STUDENTS GO ABROAD FOR ONE YEAR: INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE, INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

Graduate Abroad programs get started! Two TKU graduate institutes, International Trade and Management Science, decide to send all graduate students recruited through recommendation abroad to TKU sister universities for one year of study. In the 2007 academic year, 7 students from Graduate Institute of International Trade, and 2 from Graduate Institute of Management Science will go to University of Michigan, Flint, and California State University, Sacramento for one year respectively.

TWO RETIRING TEACHERS GET ILL

19 teachers and staff members are retiring this semester. The school will arrange a farewell tea party for them at Chueh-sheng International Conference Hall at 2 pm, June 29th. Because of illness, two of them will not be able to attend the event; teachers and students show sincere concern for them.

GOODBYE TO 11-YEAR-OLD COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY!

According to the policy of Ministry of Education, College of Technology has stopped recruiting students since 95th academic year, and the whole organization will be retrenched from 96th academic year.

STUDENT CLUBS TO HOLD VARIOUS ACTIVITIES DURING SUMMER VACATION

There are 81 days in this summer vacation, which will be a wonderful time for student clubs to enrich themselves. 34 clubs and more than 1750 people are ready to join summer training. In addition, community service teams are also ready for their missions during the hot summer days. 10 clubs including 170 teachers and students will spread their love to various country sides of Taiwan, including Cimei Island of Penghu County. In the short-term training for community service teams before the summer vacation, held at B712 at 2:00 p.m. on June 28, Dr. Flora C.I. Chang, President of TKU, will bestow the flag to these teams and boost their morale.

“TAIWAN-JAPAN CIVIL SOCEITY FORUM: GRASSROOTS AND NETWORKS”: TKU AND NGOS, JUNE 16 AND 17

“Taiwan-Japan Civil Society Forum: Grassroots and Networks,” organized by Graduate Institute of Future Studies and Graduate Institute of Japanese Studies of TKU, Graduate School of Taiwanese Studies of Waseda University, sister university of TKU, and some 23 Taiwan’s and Japan’s Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), was held at Howard International House Taipei on June 16 and 17. More than 200 people participated in the meeting, which was the large-scale and cross-border communication among Taiwan’s and Japan’s NGOs for the first time in recent years.

VICE PRESIDENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE AFFAIRS AND TKU PROFESSORS PRESENTED PAPERS IN JAPAN

Vice President of Administrative Affairs, Dr. Po-yuan Kao, and Chair of Graduate Institute of Chinese Linguistics and Documentation, Chen Shih-hua, led five professors to present six papers at the “International Conference on the Influence of Documentation on Chinese Academic Studies,” co-held by TKU and Keio University, Waseda University, and Nishogakusha University in Tokyo from June 13 to 15. Dr. Po-yuan Kao delivered a keynote speech on “Globalization and the Studies of Chinese Literature and Culture.”

DISTANCE EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT SECTION HELD VIDEO CONFERENCE ON CYBER UNIVERSITY

The Distance Education Development Section of Center of Teaching and Learning held the “2007 International Video Conferencing on Cyber University” from June 11 to 29. Scholars and experts from Taiwan, U.S., Japan, Canada, and Hong Kong are invited to share experiences through video conference.

SQUARE HATS WITH UMBRELLAS IN A DRIZZLING COMMENCEMENT DAY

OVERSEA CHINESE STUDENT GRADUATION

For welcoming parents and relatives from 64 gradates’ family to the school graduation ceremony, Overseas Chinese Student Guidance Section prepared fine tea snacks and short clips recording memories of students’ 4-year college life on the graduation day (16th).