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7/1, FLAG-GIVING CEREMONY FOR JUNIOR ABROAD PROGRAM: 460 STUDENTS TO 57 FOREIGN SCHOOLS IN 18 COUNTRIES

To propel abroad study counseling, Office of International Exchanges and International Education has purchased website services--“Tick Off to Take Off” (TOTTO). This website will be launched on July 1. In addition to the existent system of abroad study advisor, it provides more info for the participants to prepare for the abroad study. Besides, the “2010 Academic Year Flag-giving Ceremony for Junior Abroad Program and International Youth Ambassadors” will be held at 2:30 P.M. of the same day at Student Activity Center. There are totally 460 students in the abroad study program—the highest amount in recent years. The “Delegation of International Youth Ambassadors” consists of 28 students from Department of Spanish and Institutes of the Americas.

DOSHISHA UNIVERSITY BECAME TKU’S 108TH SISTER SCHOOL

Doshisha University (DU), Japan, signed academic cooperation agreement on May 21, 2010, and became TKU’s 108th sister school. Dr. Lee Pei-wha, Director, Office of International Exchanges and International Education, indicated that the new partnership with DU added more choices to our junior abroad program.

TKU STUDENTS WON THE CHAMPIONSHIP IN NATIONAL COMPUTER SKILLS CONTESTS FOR FOUR SECCESSIVE YEARS

Led by Chu Pei-ying, Section Chief of the TKU Career Planning and Placement Section, Office of Student Affairs, 13 students participated in the final round of the National Competition for MOS Best, a national computer skills contest on June 12. Lin Tzu-hung, a sophomore from Dept. of Mathematics, and Tseng Ting-ya, a sophomore from Dept. of Banking and Finance, took the No.1 place in the categories of MOS EXCEL and MOS WORD respectively, winning TKU the biggest honor for four successive years.

FORUM ON U.S. CURRENT RELATIONS WITH BEIJING, TAIPEI, AND WORLD

College of International Studies held a forum on U. S. Current Relations with Beijing, Taipei and World on June 11, inviting Dr. Louis Goodman, Dean of the School of International Service at American University, as well as many experts and scholars to attend.

OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROMOTES INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION

2010 Academic Year Funding Research Project for Industry-Academic Cooperation in Techniques and Knowledge Application offered by National Science Council is open for application from now to July 25. In order to assist TKU teachers to apply for the project successfully and increase the applying rate, Office of Research and Development held a briefing on this project at I501 on June 11, inviting Dr. Kang Shung-wen, Dean, Office of Research and Development, to share some tips of writing project proposal and the things that should be noticed during the applying process. About 33 teachers and company representatives of TKU Cham Pion Incubation Center attended the meeting.

STUDENTS OF ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY AND TAMKANG UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATED WITH MUSIC

RENOWNED POET CHENG SHARES WRITING EXPERIENCE WITH STUDENTS

TKU SOCCER TOURNAMENT WON BY SOCCER CLASS TEAM

As every soccer fan around the world is crazy about the ongoing 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Tamkang University also held a soccer tournament last week. The tourney was joined by a total of 23 teams, and the winner, for the first time, went to a soccer team composed of students who play the sports as a habit. The team beat a rivaling team made of foreign students, also a first time in the tournament history. Hsiao Shu-fen, director of the TKU Office of Physical Education, remarks that the winning of the team who plays soccer for fun is the best example of the fruitful result of physical education. “After all, college life is about experiencing all kinds of sports and learn team spirit. Engage in a sport for fun can bring unimaginable outcome,” she noted.

WINNERS OF COLLEGE OF SCIENCE GRADUATION PAPER COMPETITION: TING YU-JU AND WANG YU-FU

College of Science held a graduation paper competition on June 11 at the Liu-hsien Memorial Science Hall. After a fierce competition, Ting Yu-ju, a second year MA student in Biochemistry Division, Department of Chemistry and Wang Yu-fu, a second year MA student in Department of Physics, took the Dean’s Award.

6 DEPARTMENTS AND GRADUATE INSTITUTES TO BE REARRANGED IN 2011 ACADEMIC YEAR

A total of six departments and graduate institutes will be merged or changed titles in the 2011 academic year, according to the resolutions made in the 63rd University Affairs meeting. If Department of History and the Graduate Institute of European Studies (PhD program) succeed in their appeal to the Ministry of Education to be removed from the MOE Watch List, prior to the submission deadline for TKU’s report on “2011 academic year recruitment amount and rearrangement of department or institute,” they will continue to recruit students.