The Summary and Highlight of Objectives Achieved in the Year 2022
Objective One.1. Enhance students’ learning efficacy. NTPU installs a college-centered cross-disciplinary curriculum plan, develops streamlined courses and value-added degrees, reinforces career development and consultation, and cross-assesses through Assurance of Learning (AOL) survey and graduated students’ career development feedback. 2. Fortify students’ professional and practical competence by introducing experts from the industrial, governmental, and academic fields to co-teach courses, launching interdisciplinary courses on innovative industries (5+2), and introducing the use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud resources progressively.3. Reinforce the teaching support system through the drafting/ratifying of regulations, lowering the budget application threshold, and promoting digital courses such as MOOCs. 4. Improve the environment for interdisciplinary learning. Starting with the 2021-22 school year, NTPU had set up the pertinent regulations mandating the university’s daytime bachelor program students admitted in/after the academic year to take at least one micro-credit program (or credit program, minor, or double major). The number of students who graduated in 2022 and have acquired interdisciplinary competence (including double-major, minor, and credit or micro-credit programs) reached 494, taking 36% of the total student who graduated. The number of students and percentage of students who graduated with interdisciplinary competence increased by 13% and 3%, respectively, compared to the figures obtained in 2021.
5.Install a mandatory programming course.Starting in the 2021-22 academic year, every daytime bachelor program student must elect one “computer programming course” for fulfilling the stipulated graduation threshold. In 2022, the number of students having taken computer programming courses reached 3,451, reaching 60% of the total. The number of students and percentage of students who have taken computer programming courses increased by 6% and 3%, respectively, compared to the figures obtained in 2021. 6. Implement the BEST program and EMI courses. MOE granted the College of Business to be the beacon college of the BEST (The Program on Bilingual Education for Students in College) program with 6 million NT dollars in annual grants in the academic years 2021-22 and 2022-23. In 2022, 184 EMI courses were offered, with a 27% increase compared to 2021.
Objective Two. 1.Cultivating excellent talents in political and economic fields and strengthening featured inter-disciplinary studies and think-tank roles through elevating professionalism and excellence of student recruitment and enrollment plan , promoting EMI credit programs and implementing talent improvement projects in different colleges.2. Foster a model university town by connecting local Sanxia-Yingge resources and offering courses with local features through empowering culture tours. 3.Extend featured alliances/partnerships. NTPU takes pride in expanding and deepening its cooperation with South-bound countries, building working relationships with foreign international cooperation organizations or cultural and educational institutions in Taiwan, and building a campus friendly to international students. We enhance transnational and bilateral theme-based research with practical features and deepen overseas workplace practicum and volunteering service. 4. Reinforce global mobility. In 2022, 124 first-year overseas students enrolled. NTPU sent teams to participate in overseas education fairs 15 times. We see a significant growth of 15% in overseas student enrollment compared to 2021, achieving effective overseas student recruitment. In 2022, students engaging in international research/exchange programs in NTPU and its sister universities reached 628; 210 sister universities (colleges) signed MOU with NTPU. The number of prestigious sister universities (colleges) worldwide has increased yearly, significantly promoting the quality and quantity of student exchange programs between NTPU and sister universities.
Objective three. 1. Create a public, transparent, and available-to-all systemby making university operations and financial information public and transparent, implementing IR special case studies, expanding the functions of the school administrative information integrated platform, and encouraging student participation in university operations. 2. NTPU has set the goals of assisting and perfecting school attendance for economically and culturally disadvantaged students via offering more admission opportunities and improving student enrollment, counsel, and the external funding mechanism. 3. Refine teaching quality by initiating a reward system of teaching excellence, lowering the student-teacher ratio, and hiring more full-time and part-time faculty. 4. Increase the flexibility of course-taking for students seeking continuing education. NTPU offers new credit programs and in-service programs for the ultimate goal of lifetime learning. 5. From 2021 to 2022, the percentage of economically and culturally disadvantaged students enrolled in the daytime programs who received subsidies increased by 1.5%, and the total amount of those subsidies from external fundraising increased by 14%.
Objective four. 1. Install a university-level USR office as the base to integrate resources and execute pertinent plans. NTPU university fund provided 9,800,000 NT Dollars for the installation.2. The number of faculty/student participants in the school reached 7,511 in 2022, anincrease of 5.6% more than in 2021. Participants outside of school reached 150,052 in 2022, an increase of 1.5% from 2021. Cases of connection and collaboration with local institutions increased by seven from 2021 to 2022.3. In 2022, two more USR-featured courses were offered, whereas NTPU sponsored 9 USR teacher/teacher-student communities.
