To answer to an administrative call from the Executive Yuan, also to instigate TKU staff to embark on a lifetime study program, a draft entitled “TKU Staff Study Plan for a Life-long Career Passport” was proposed and discussed in the 79th TKU administrative meeting. Although it was not passed, a more detailed and comprehensive plan will be promulgated soon for TKU staff to observe.

The contingent plan is scheduled to issue 500 Study Passports to the present work force. Courses such as Chinese/English Data Processing, Application of Library Resources and Computerization, etc. are considered legitimate and acceptable ones. It will be put into effect pending acknowledgment by the next administrative meeting.

A study curriculum designed by the Personnel Administrative Bureau, the Executive Yuan, comprises a wide variety of outside campus courses. Roughly, they can be divided into two categories: Administrative Management Study and Professional Training. And the legitimate courses include Quality Control and Customer- Orientation, Negotiation, Training/Counseling, Academic Affairs, Accounting, Data Processing, Construction/Repair, Purchasing, etc. As for the light-weight non-occupational courses such as Career Planning, Emotion Control, Dietary Sanitation, Adulthood Development and Adaptation, Health Maintenance and Life-time Recreational Sports, Creative Thinking and Problem Settlement, etc., they are not legitimate courses. But In-Service and Activities Oriented courses may be accepted, if only for their grade, but not their credits.

In the above-mentioned meeting, matters relating to the program name, offered courses, procedures of acknowledgment had left much room for discussion. In the end, Pres. Chang Horng-jinh instructed that Office of Personnel should execute the program, after promulgation of the details, in the forthcoming 2002 school year.