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WORKSHOP FOR FRESHMEN LEARNING STRATEGIES LAUNCHED

The workshop to enhance freshmen students’ learning skills designed by the Center for Learning and Teaching of Tamkang University has been widely popular among students since the project has been launched two years ago. According to a recently released survey, students found two courses of the workshop especially beneficial to their studies. The two courses are “Keys to Studying Foreign Textbooks” and “Keys to Do a Great Presentation.” The survey shows that students who had taken these courses all found that the lecturers of these courses have done a terrific job which helps them to easily pick up these lessons. The widely popular workshop had attracted TKU students to log on the internet to sign up for the courses. So far all these courses are filled quickly after enrolment began which forced the Center for Learning and Teaching to open five more courses for enrollment starting this week. Also, a new course, “How to All-Pass” will be available this week.

TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SECTION HOLDS ACTIVITIES TO PROMOTE CREATIVE TEACHING

Tamkang’s Teacher Professional Development Section proposed a series of projects to help TKU teachers to become better educators, including “Teachers’ Professional Development Project,” “Teachers Apprenticeship Project,” “Creative Teaching,” “Media Instructional Designer Project,” “Teaching Assistant Self-Improvement Project.” “We hope that teachers and TAs can participate these projects to enhance their professional skills,” said Chang Chiung-sui, Section Chief of the Teacher Professional Development Section.

MOE EXPERTS TO VISIT TKU TO INSPECT SUBSIDY USE

Members of a committee under the Ministry of Education will visit Tamkang University on October 9 for an inspection tour from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. to check how the school has made use of a subsidy granted by the ministry to improve the facilities of the TKU. President C. I. Chang will receive the visiting committee members, while other TKU senior officers will also be present during the whole inspection tour to answer inquires propose by these visiting experts.

EXPERIMENTAL THEATER HELD TWO-DAY PERFORMANCE

OVER HUNDREDS OF ALUMNI FROM THE WORLD WILL HAVE A REUNION AT SHANGHAI IN NOVEMBER

2008 Reunion Association of the World TKU Alumni held by Office of Alumni Services and Resources Development will take place at Shanghai on Nov. 1, and the deadline for registration is Sep. 30. Dr. Clement C.P. Chang, Founder of TKU, Dr. Flora C.I. Chang, President of TKU, and other 116 alumni will join the big event. “In case that some alumni might miss the invitation card of the reunion, we have set up three liaison groups, which will respectively contact the alumni in Taiwan, North America and Mainland China in a fast and systematic way, inviting them to participate in the reunion,” said Sye Wen-fa, Director of Office Alumni Services and Resources Development. The exact number of alumni to take part in the event will be confirmed on Oct. 10.

RECREATION CULTURE CLUB HOLDS EXHIBITION FROM OCT. 6 TO 9

Do you miss the recreation activities of summer time? Do you want to recapture the feeling of summer? While the weather is getting cold, Recreation Culture Club holds an exhibition at the Exhibition Hall of Business Management Building from Oct. 6 to 9, inviting everyone to catch the last moment of summer.

TKU BADMINTON SOCIETY WON THE FIRST AND THIRD PLACE AGAIN IN THE NORTHERN COLLEGIATE MATCH

LIANG LING-YUAN WON JAL SCHOLARSHIP TO STUDY FEMINIST WRITER IN JAPAN

TKU’S EFFORTS FOR HEALTHY AND SAFE CAMPUSES TO BE RECOGNIZED BY WHO: SAVING ENERGY, CLASSIFYING GARBAGE, REDUCING TRAFFIC ACCIDENT