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The First Taiwan-Japan University Presidents’ Forum

During last year’s 8th National Conference on Education, the President of Taiwan, Mr. Ma Ying-jeou, mentioned a new educational initiative being promoted by the Ministry of Education. The initiative aims to increase numbers of international students (from 13% to 2.6% of overall students), enhance the scale of academia-industry cooperation, and ultimately, raise the level of competitiveness of Taiwanese universities. Subsequently, in August this year, the Director General of the Bureau of International Cultural and Educational Relations, Dr. Wen-tong Lin, led a Taiwanese delegation to the 2011 Conference on Higher Education in Taiwan and Japan, held in Osaka. During the conference, a suggestion was made: to organize a presidents’ forum that would further promote interaction and exchange between universities in Taiwan and Japan. And thus, the First Taiwan-Japan University Presidents’ Forum was born.

TKU Alumnus Appointed Director General of TECO

TKU Graduate Institute of the Americas alumnus, Jin Xing, will in Jan 2012 become the new Director General of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, Seattle. Jin Xing explained that this is his first posting in the US. He will be responsible for a number of local areas, including Washington D.C., Oregon Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Alaska. While he felt gratified to be named for the role, he also acknowledged that the new posting will involve an increase in responsibility.

Tamkang Review Receives Public Approval

For four consecutive years, the Tamkang Review – a biannual journal published by the TKU Department of English – has been included in the prestigious publication THCI Core. The Editor in Chief of Tamkang Review and Department of English Chairman, Dr. Tsai Chen-hsing, explained that “Tamkang Review’s most unique feature is the fact that it maintains a more literary element than other such catalogues”.

Tamkang Comes Second in NTCIR Contest

Department of Information Management Assistant Professor, Dr. Min-Yuh Day, recently lead the Information Management TKU Team (IMTKU Team) to Japan, where they took part in the 9th NTCIR Contest. Out of 24 teams from China, Japan, America, and Taiwan, the IMTKU Team placed second in both the traditional and simplified Chinese subcategories of the Recognizing Inference in Text category.

TKU Globalizing the Evaluation of Russian in Taiwan

The TKU Department of Russian recently received authorization by the Russian Ministry of Education and Science to begin administering the Test of Russian as a Foreign Language (TORFL). In November this year, the Department of Russian signed a coopera...

The 2011 EMBA Year-end Gala

This year, the EMBA Year-end Gala was held at Hung Kan Restaurant on Sat. Dec 10. Guests at the gala included students from the nine departments offering EMBA programs, EMBA alumni, and teachers/staff, who came together to celebrate the end of the year with a night of fun and laughter.

Austrian Exchange Student - Theresa

TKU exchange student, Theresa Dullnig, from the music capital of the world, Vienna, has a not-so-secret hobby: she loves studying Chinese. In her past travels, she took pleasure in learning new languages, meeting people from diverse ethnic backgrounds, and learning about new cultures. Laughing, Theresa explains “although I come from Vienna, I can only play the flute. But compared with playing music, I much prefer to study Chinese. I watch Taiwanese TV dramas all the time to practice my Chinese listening ability”.

Student Leaders Voice their Opinions

The first semester of the 2011-2012 academic year will soon be at an end. To allow students to voice their thoughts and thus make things better for the next semester, the Office of Student Affairs’ Guidance Section and Extracurricular Activities Guidance Section recently held two activities at the Chueh Sheng International Conference Hall: a Forum for Class Representatives and a Forum for Leaders of Student Clubs. Both forums were hosted by the President of Tamkang University, Dr. Flora, Chia-I Chang, and attended by TKU Vice presidents and other senior faculty and staff. The forums gave students the rare opportunity to directly communicate their thoughts to the university president.