"New Generation．New Thinking．New Positioning" is the image of teachers and students that CCU commit to practice the vision of mid-term development: the establishment of indicators of teachers' competency, the transformation of teachers' expertise learning community, and the usage of teaching experiment research to improve teaching problems. In order to cultivate talents with π-type traits, CCU initiates interdisciplinary learning discussions through Institutional Research, and actively prepares for the "Eighth College" as well. The college aims to cultivate "systematic international leaders", not only enrolling students in Bachelor Programs of Pre-professional Majors, but hope that the Eighth College will sow the campus with "interdisciplinary” seeds for creating more possibilities for teachers and students considering interdisciplinarity and innovation.
I. Remodeling of teachers, diverse integration of teaching momentum
CCU continues to improve and expand digital teaching (such as AR and VR, etc.), characteristic practice fields (such as AI Robot Maker Space, Startup Land, characteristic laboratory in departments, etc.), provides teachers with diverse teaching resources and circumstances, and promote the transformation of teachers' expertise learning community. CCU also encourages teachers to actively engage in diverse dialogues and discussions, and further develop innovative teaching methods or teaching materials on themes such as solving teaching problems, multiple evaluations, and integrating technology into education. And rolling out multiple interdisciplinary programs, micro courses, projects and overall courses.
According to preliminary understanding from Institutional Research, about 10% of the students in CCU who have not applied for the second expertise (Double Major, minor department, and program) actually took more than 20 credits of courses from other departments, which shows that CCU promotes to be the interdisciplinary learning campus has its niche. CCU continues to review interdisciplinary learning related mechanisms such as loosening restriction of credits and curriculum restructuring, and promotes the autonomous learning community of students. The overall achievement of CCU students could be seen in iGEM, Maker, innovation and entrepreneurship competitions, the use of AI in unmanned restaurants, and the participation in the USR project "Through vegetables to lead generations collaboration -Veneration (Tsai-Yi-Chi)", etc.
II. Construct future life laboratory and cultivate talents with technological literacy
"Technology Competency" is one of the most important key abilities in the current talent cultivation. It is expected to cultivate students with the technological literacy of "Do, Use, and Think". Through logical thinking and programming language courses, the goal of CCU is "even non-engineering students have programming thinking as well". Through the cross-college logical thinking and programming application teacher community, we develop programming language-related courses suitable for students from different colleges. At the same time, basic courses such as logical computing concepts, basic programming, artificial intelligence, and information security are introduced through the Center for General Education.
In order to practice our development of the teaching field of the "Future Living Lab", teachers and students collaboratively using AI, program computing and other knowledge to construct Unmanned Restaurant, Future Stock Exchange, e-Courts, Digital Humanities Collections, and Smart Brain Charging Stations. We created these demonstration fields for traditional disciplines such as business administration, law, humanities, and education for AI application; the complete framework also includes an online security protection platform designed for malicious traffic detection technology, providing cloud network foundation for the above-mentioned five living labs, and a future employment trend analysis technology.
III. Integrate regional industry-academia development and link international industry trends
The industries located around CCU are mostly traditional precision manufacturing. It is adjacent to Dapumei Precision Machinery Park, Minxiong(with Touciao), Xinying Industrial Park, Yunlin Industrial Park, etc. The characteristics of regional development and the proportion of employment in various industries are roughly Tertiary Industry (elderly care and nursing, high-quality life) 47.06%, Secondary Industry (precision machinery, agricultural biotechnology, chemical materials) 29.80%. CCU has been cultivating basic industrial technology for a long time and actively visits manufacturers to understand the development status and the needs of neighboring enterprises. At the same time, the team of teachers invests their R&D results of AI and biotechnology testing in the industries of medical, elderly care, agricultural and fishery testing, and so on, and assists in the rural economy revitalization, boosting the value of local industries
Combining the two characteristic research center projects of "AIM-HI" and "CIRAS" as the top-notch pioneers, the three major industrial clusters of "digital dentist", "nanobiological testing" and "intelligent medical" will be extended to cooperate with the "Industrial Park Development". These are the total of 6 main aspects of this sub-project, so as organized to develop a smart innovation corridor.
From 2018 to 2019, we have earned a total of 7 RSC projects including “Value Creation Projects” from the Ministry of Science and Technology and “RSC Projects” from the Ministry of Education, with a subsidy of NT$ 98.97 million dollars. In the first phase of the Sprout Project, CCU has established two startups companies, " Instant NanoBiosensors " and "PrintIn3D DigiTech". In 2020, CCU established the third startup business "Hitspectra", with the highest technology transfer fund, NT$ 15 million dollars, over the years. It is expected that the fourth startup business " Advanced Transmission Technology " will be established by the end of this year. And we are looking forward to hit a record high of 40 million dollars. It is estimated that by 2022, there will be 6 startups companies and 3 business departments.
CCU upholds the responsibility of urban practice and devotion to the local, integrated with adjacent industrial parks to create industrial cluster corridors. This year, Professor Prof. Sheng-Fuh Chang from the Department of Communication Engineering successfully signed a 5G communication technology transfer with a manufacturer in January 2020 for a technology transfer contract of NT$ 13.5 million dollars. Through the experience of tutoring in local industrial parks and science-based industrial park, CCU is capable to gather the fruitful achievements of industry-academia collaboration and transfer fund of technology research.
IV. Indigenous and Han culture, harmony and common prosperity
CCU is close to Mountain. Ali, and has close connection with the Cou tribe. Alishan Township, in Chiayi County, is one of the 55 native tribes across the country. We live and multiply on the land of Taiwan. In addition to looking globally, we should concern more locally. The indigenous culture is the distinctive and magnificent mark of the local culture, which needs to be cherished and protected by generation after generation. We integrate this concept into education and encourage teachers and students to participate in the foundation, cultivation, and revitalization of native culture. This is the social responsibility of National Chung Cheng University.
CCU established the “Indigenous Student Resource Center” in 2017, focusing on indigenous affairs and student counseling. At present, more than 70% of the indigenous students in CCU are "Urban Indigenous People" (because of the lack of employment opportunities in their hometowns in the past, many indigenous people left their familiar hometowns in order to earn for living, and that is the reason why there is a so-called “Urban Indigenous People”, “UIP”) and their children have become the second generation of "UIP"), UIP students are now not familiar with culture of their own tribe, and even feel strange to the tribe. CCU organizes the “Alishan Indigenous and Han Culture Exchange Camp” To make the indigenous group no longer hided in campus and to recognize themselves, strengthen their self-identification, offer multi-language and cultural courses, and advocate equality of language and cultural; at the same time, organize autonomous forums to promote teachers and students’ careness about ethnic cultural equality in the campus through multi-ethnic groups, social issues, and civic deliberation.
CCU plans to recruit some outstanding students with indigenous identity in the Eighth College. In addition to the expected promotion of interdisciplinary talent cultivation, it also integrates the educational resources of Alishan College with an international perspective, supplemented by abundant resources of scholarships and grants. In the future, we expect to cultivate indigenous students to become outstanding leaders, and transform the indigenous peoples through education and talent cultivation