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FRESHMEN ENROLLMENT RATE REACHED 98.07%—STRONG ATTRACTION FOR OUTSTANDING STUDENTS

According to statistics by the Office of Academic Affairs, 5 departments have 100% of freshman enrollment, and nearly 90% of the newly enrolled freshmen have better academic performance than those of last year. This year’s freshmen enrollment has set a new record which is 0.59% higher than that of last year. The College of Management has reached 98.92% while the runner-up, College of Foreign Languages and Literatures has ended up with 98.47%. As for the departments, History, Mathematics, Physics, Accounting of Tamsui Campus and Multiculture and Linguistics Studies of Lanyang Campus all have 100% of enrollment. At Lanyang Campus, the College of Global Research and Development and the College of Entrepreneurial Development also have more than 95% of enrollment.

TKU RANKED NO 1 FOR MASTER’S STUDENTS BY THE BUSINESS WORLD

The result of a survey on qualifications and requirement of 2009 master’s students by Global View Magazine and 104 Job Bank is just out. TKU is ranked ninth, tying up with National Sun Yat-sen University, and it is the only private university on the top 10 list, above many public universities. For this, President Flora Chia-I Chang modestly said, “Although TKU is on the top among private universities, other universities are making fast progress. TKU should continue to catch up with the best public universities.”

NOT UNDERSTANDING YOUTH LANGUAGE, TEACHERS EMBARRASSED

What is the hottest problem for freshman supervisors in supervision? The statistics of the survey from “The First Freshman Supervisors’ Meeting of 2008” by the Office of Student Affairs indicated that many supervisors had responded that how to understand students newfangled “in” language and find out the ways of communicating with students born in the 80th would be the biggest problems. Not understanding their newfangled language, many supervisors could not effectively supervise the freshmen; rather they sometimes became ridiculed by their own answers to such newfangled expressions.

FACULTY AND STUDENTS FROM ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY HAPPILY EXCHANGED CULTURAL EXPERIENCE WITH THOSE FROM TKU

This semester, the Department of Insurance has exchanged 8 students the first time with the College of Economics of Zhejiang University for a two-month study period. Led by the Chair of Department of Finance of Zhejiang University, Boming Zhu, 13 faculty members and students safely arrived at TKU on September 13, the day when Typhoon Sinlaku attacked. With 7others and Led by Lecturer Yeh-Lung Wu, senior student Pei-xuan Li from the Department of Insurance of TKU went to Zhejiang University last Tuesday.

SISTER UNIVERSITIES ADDED KYUSHU UNIVERSITY

TKU sister universities have added one more member. TKU and Japan National Kyushu University signed to be sister universities on September 11. International Affairs Vice President Wan-chin Tai indicated, “We are now drawing up plans for student exchange, and will invite the new president, Dr. Setsuo Arikawa for a visit. We hope there will be possible further development and cooperation in researches on materials science when he visits us.”

DISTANCE EDUCATION CONFERENCE

TKU’s Center for Teaching and Learning held “The 2008 Cross Cultural Conference on Distance Education” in I501 and I601 on Tamsui Campus between Sept. 17 and 18. Initiated by the Japanese sister university, Waseda University and sponsored by both Waseda and TKU, the Conference invited President Flora Chia-I Chang and the Director of Distance Education Center of Waseda University, Dr. Michiko Nakano to give the opening speeches. The Section Chief of TKU’s Distance Education Development Section, Ching-fan Chen hoped that during the conference, both universities would exchange teaching experiences, and participating scholars would strengthen the understanding of distance education in a cross-cultural perspective and jointly thrash out future curriculum development.

THE DEPARTMENTAL SONG “DREAM IN HAND” WON THE GRAND PRIZE

COPYRIGHT VIOLATIONS SEEM RISING.

The Information Processing Center has recently received a letter from the Ministry of Education, pointing out that there were about 14 cases of reported copyright violations from TKU IP on the Internet from August 1 to September 2, including 10 cases (71% of all cases) from the IP positions of the Colleges of Science and Engineering. Compared to that of last year, this is obviously on the rising because there were no such cases last year, but about 22 cases in all up to now this year. The Director of the Information Processing Center, Ming-da Huang has expressed that TKU has already blocked the IP’s of those who are reported to have violated copyrights and is actively investigating them. Those who have violated copyrights will be surely penalized according to university regulations. He has called on, “Don’t be penny-wise and leave a shameful stain mark in you life. You might have broken the civil law, the criminal law and university regulations when you download materials with P2P.”

THE NEW READING ACTIVITY AREA IS COMFORTABLE FOR STUDY