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ALMA MATER REUNION TRAIN TO GET STARTED TO CALL BACK ALUMNI: GRADUATE FEEDBACK INFORMATION PLATFORM WILL BE TESTED IN NOVEMBER

The “Alma Mater Reunion Train Coaches Project,” organized by the Office of Alumni Service and Resources Development (OASRD), will get started next month by testing the website designed by Computer Information Center, Graduate Feedback Information Platform. The platform is scheduled to be officially publicized in December to track the directions of some 216,000 TKU graduates and alumni. The center has organized an alumni reunion activities, “Calling Back the Heart of Alumni,” on November 3. The website, which contains options of basic information maintenance, e-mail, activity announcements, and job recruitment information, is aimed to strengthen the competitive capability of TKU students by channeling the career information from and by TKU alumni in the enterprises. In November, the school will offer training courses to propel every department to utilize such an information platform.

EIGHT TKU INSTITUTES ARE GRADED AS THE BEST, SEVEN AS REMARKABLE BY CHEERS

According to the “Recognition Ranking of Engineering and Business Majors” in 2008 Introduction to the Best Graduate Institutes in Taiwan, published by Cheers magazine on 2007, 9, 18, eight TKU graduate institutes (including Dept. of Architecture) were ranked as “The Best,” and seven (including Graduate Institute of Educational Psychology and Counseling) were graded as “Remarkable.” The magazine guide cites the 2005 and 2006 research reports “Recognition Ranking of Engineering and Business Majors in Taiwan Universities” by Dr. Hou Yung-chi, Associate Professor of Graduate Institute of Higher Education, TKU, and analyzes the academic achievements of three Engineering majors and four Business majors. The eight TKU institutes ranked as “The Best” include Graduate Institutes of Civil Engineering, Water Resource and Environmental Engineering, Architecture, Industrial Economics, Accounting, Banking and Finance, Insurance, and International Trade. Among them, Graduate Institutes of Civil Engineering, Water Resource, Industrial Economics are evaluated as No. 1 in private universities, whereas Architecture is ranked as No. 3 among all Taiwan universities.

DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT WORKING WITH STUDENTS OF CHINA: DEVELOPING VIDEO-AUDIO PLATFORM AND THE ROBOT WITH FACIAL EXPRESSIONS

The Department of Information Management of TKU will participate in the “Challenge Cup” National Competition of Chinese College Students in Extracurricular Academic and Scientific Achievements, held in China this November. The competition is widely known as the Olympic games for the Chinese students on information technology field. The team from TKU will be the only team that is consisted of cross-straits students, as TKU’s Information Management Department has teamed up with the College of Software, Nankai University in Tianjin this August. Other contestants of the competition include several famous academies, such as Taiwan University, Peking University, and Tsinghau University in Beijing.

TKU IS GRANTED WITH 1.5 HUNDRED-MILLION SUBSIDY IN 2007

MOE’s 2007 private universities subsidy program has granted a total of NT$ 1.5 hundred million to the Tamkang University this year. The total amount of the subsidy granted to local private universities is NT$3.3 billion.

DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE IS TO ESTABLISH A NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

After the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering established the first national alumni association, the Alumni Association of Department of Architecture will follow suit. Department of Architecture will register with its official title as a social group to the Ministry of the Interior (MOI), and raises funds in the name of a legal foundation. The founding ceremony of this association will be held on Oct. 27 at the alumni assembly hall of Taipei Campus. Jin-xiong Liu, the chairperson of the Organizing Committee and the former alumni association will take charge of the convention, and elect a new chairperson according to the new statute.

CLASS REUNION AFTER A DECADE: ALUMNI OF THE DEPARTMENT OF BANKING AND FINANCE

How would it be when classmates meet again after a decade? Last Wednesday (Dec.10), Department of Banking and Finance held a party for the graduates of the year of 1997, titled as “December 10, The Class Reunion after a Decade” in Chueh-hsuan Chinese Garden in Tamsui Campus. There were some forty graduates accompanied with their families to join in the party, and the scene was very warm and touching.

GRADUATE INSTITUTION OF FUTURE STUDIES HOSTED LECTURE ON THE STRATEGIC THINKING IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION

A lecture “The Importance of Strategic Thinking in the Age of Globalization,” was hosted by Graduate Institution of Future Studies at the Gymnasium, at SG 317 last Friday (12th). The speaker was Mr. Joergen Oerstroem Moeller, a visiting senior research fellow at Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore and a Demark ex-ambassador to Singapore, Brunei, Australia, and New Zealand. The emcee is the Assistant Professor of Graduate Institution of Future Studies, Dr. Ji Shun-jief.

HANXING ACADEMY, MALAYSIA VISITED TKU

The 17th investigative team of media education of Hanxing Academy of Journalism & Communication Malaysia, visited TKU at 3 p.m last Thursday (11th). The team, consistisng of 23 students of Department of Radio & Television, and Department of Public Relations, was led by Wu Jie-hua, Lecturer of Hanxing Academy of Journalism & Communication. Being one of the sister schools of TKU, the team was received by Guo Shu-min, Secretary of Office International Exchanges and International Education, and Wang Di-yue, Section Chief of Admissions Section, Office of Academic Affairs. Besides, they also invited two exchange students from Hanxing Academy, Yin Jie-ru (senior, Department of Mass Communication), and Ling Jing-yi (junior, Department of Chinese) to share their experiences in Tamkang.

ONE ON ONE STUDYING GUIDE TO MAKE ENGLISH LERNING EASIER

“The English Corner” of English Department offers all TKU students a free advisory service for inquiry and consultation. Interested students please acquire application form at The English Corner (FL122), starting from 8 a.m, Oct.15. Allowance is limited.

GETTING PRIZE FROM THE EXHIBITION ON EUROPEAN UNION

Chueh-sheng Memorial Library holds a prize-guessing game along with the exhibition of European souvenirs, from Tuesday to Thursday, between 12 A.M. and 3 P.M.,at the entrance of main library. The purpose of these activities is to let school members understand European Union and raise their interests about it.