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THE NUMBER OF OVERSEAS STUDENTS BREAKS RECORD

SPANISH NIGHT: FULL OF HEARTY LAUGHS

LANYANG WARMLY RESPONDS TO LEARNING ENGLISH FROM BROADCASTING.

Since the beginning of Oct., the Department of Multicultural and Linguistics Studies has been broadcasting TKU news and other popular information in English during lunch-time. This implementation is warmly and widely reverberated. Its initiator, Feng-lung Su at the Director’s Office has explained that the Department of Multicultural and Linguistics Studies has implemented the broadcasting program to strengthen the centripetal force and provide the Lanyang Campus with a better language learning environment.

HALLOWEEN: TERRIFYING SCREAMS AND LAUGHTER

MORE CHINESE LANGUAGE COURSES HAVE BEEN OFFERED FOR FOREIGN STUTENTS.

According to statistics by the Office of International Exchanges and International Education, there are 86 foreign students enrolled in 2008, most of whom come from Europe and America. This includes 42 exchange students from sister universities. This year, TKU has first enrolled students from The University of West Florida, the US and Fudan University, the Mainland.

COOPERATION WITH MICROSOFT: donO.tw IS ONLINE NOW.

The cooperation program “Garden of Digital Life” between TKU’s Information Processing Center and Microsoft Corporation has successfully yielded fruit: the website http://donO.tw is open now. “donO” means “classmate” in Taiwanese dialect, and it is TKU’s first Web2.0 platform which is based on the “Silverlight” of Microsoft RIA technology. It’s opened today (Nov. 3) and it is free. The director of the Information Processing Center, Ming-dar Hwang has explained that except photo album, information, message, and discussion functions, this platform also offers students the functions of creating and joining student clubs. Hopefully it will be more welcome and popular than PTT of Taiwan University and Nameless Little Stop of Chiao Tung University.

WASEDA UNIVERSITY AND TKU WILL JOINTLY OFFER DISTANCE COURSES.

The director of the Center of Distance Education, Waseda University (a TKU sister university), Michiko Nakano came to visit TKU with more than 20 Japanese teachers and enterprises representatives on Oct. 30. Except visiting some distance education classrooms, observing class activities, they also discussed future distance education plans with faculties of TKU’s Department of Japanese.

RUSSIAN FORUM WILL SHARE TEACHING METHODOLOGIES AND RESEARCH FINDINGS.

The Department of Russian & Slavic Studies will host the “2008 International Forum on Russian Linguistics and Literature” this coming Saturday (Nov. 8) at Ching-sheng International Conference Hall and T306, starting at 9:00 am. Scholars from Russia, Japan, South Korea, etc. are invited and 24 academic papers will be presented. President Flora Chia-I Chang and a representative from The Moscow-Taipei Coordination Commission on Economic and Cultural Cooperation in Taipei Iliya A. Semenov are invited to give the opening speeches.

TEXTILE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE ACROSS THE STAIGHT EXCHANGED RESEARCH ATTAINMENTS

The First Textile Science and Technology Conference across the Straight sponsored by TKU’s Department of Chemistry, Taiwan Technical Textiles Association and Taiwan Textile Research Institute took place at Ching-sheng International Conference Hall and Chueh-sheng International Conference Hall on Oct. 28. 32 scholars from Taiwan, Hong Kong and the Mainland were invited to publish their research findings. Academic For Vice President Kan-nan Chen expressed that the Conference provided a helpful channel for scholars across the Straight to exchange their research attainments in textile science and technology.

CURRICULUM EXTERNAL REVIEW TO MEET EMPLOYMENT CHALLENGES

To accord with the tendency of industrial and entrepreneurial development, train students’ competencies for future employment, and raise competitiveness, TKU has implemented the system of external reviews of curriculum structure and new courses. Meanwhile, all colleges are required to gradually reduce the ratios between compulsory courses and graduation required courses from the present 76.11 to the maximum of 70% (except 75% for the College of Foreign Languages and Literatures) in 2011. The minimum ratio of departmental selective courses will be 15%.