Achievement Summary and Highlights in 2023-2024
The second phase of the NTSU’s Higher Education SPROUT Project systematically promotes the overall high-level cultivation plan with the four major aspects of “Teaching Innovation and Refinement, Fulfilling Social Responsibility, and Industry-Academic Cooperation and Making Resources More Public,” combined with the vision, self-identification, and purpose of the NTSU’s 2024-2027 Medium Term Development Plan. The NTSU has strengthened our position as a sports university specializing in high-performance sports competition and health and leisure through the Higher Education SPROUT Project and continues to move towards the vision of “International Prestige and Sports Rock.” The second phase of the NTSU’s Higher Education SPROUT Project (2023-2024) was subsidized by the Ministry of Education (MOE) with NT$68.8 million, and the overall budget implementation rate reached 100% in 2023. At the same time, the key performance capabilities and objectives in the project’s first phase have shown initial results.
Teaching Innovation and Refinement
Taking teacher support, student learning, and enhancing environmental space to innovate and improve the Teaching Innovation and Refinement. In 2023-2024, teachers and students won 18 Guo-Guang Sports Awards, 38 articles published in the Q1 category of journal articles, and 195 industry-academic cooperation cases. Regarding students, 31 student study groups were established in 2023-2024, and 905 students were rewarded for obtaining professional licenses. To upgrade the learning environment, 26 learning spaces were upgraded in 2023-2024 to build digitally intelligent classrooms, and the equipment for audio-visual and distance teaching was integrated and optimized.
Fulfilling Social Responsibility
To promote “cultural sustainability, environmental sustainability, local revitalization, and local care,” from 2023-2024, 12 children’s physical education courses were held in Nantou, Hualien, Taitung, and other Indigenous tribe schools, and 405 aboriginal children participated in sports experience camps. With the implementation of sports competitions and sports guidance to build up students’ professional ability for implementing social responsibility, 372 people have been engaged in community leisure sports activities, and our program has promoted 78 people with disadvantages to participate in sports activities.
Industry-Academic Cooperation
The NTSU takes a four-college structure to systemically promote the cultivation of “sports competition professionals, diversified sports teachers, healthy and wellbeing all-age care, and leisure innovation leadership and management talents.” Our university has cultivated 13 reports on the top high-performance sports talents and obtained 38 snorkeling and scuba diving licenses. The NTSU has created 40 teaching materials for children’s sports courses and obtained 32 professional licenses for Paralympic and Special Olympics sports. To cultivate talents in the precision health industry, we went to the elderly health promotion station and other institutions to carry out 36 public welfare services, promoted the sports guidance course for the middle-aged and elderly to serve 737 people inside and outside the school, and promoted grassroots sports protection education with 21 institutions and assisted 715 junior high school students to learn sports protection. We have obtained 33 certificates for SUP and international Keelboat for marine recreation talents, echoed the 2019 National Curriculum Guidelines, promoted 15 high school principals to participate in outdoor exploration courses, and cultivated sports media talents to create sports content by participating in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
Making Resources More Public
In 2023-2024, the NTSU recruited 291 economically or culturally disadvantaged students, 528 socioeconomically disadvantaged students participated in diverse counseling mechanisms, and grand disadvantaged students for NT$6.91 million in 2023. Our fundraising mechanism has built NT$7.07 million to support disadvantaged students in 2023-2024. The higher quality of the student-teacher ratio was maintained in terms of faculties. The university hired three full-time teachers in 2023, and the student-teacher ratio was 18.95 in 2023, which is better than the requirements of MOE. In terms of institutional research, there were 17 cases of analysis of institutional affairs in 2023-2024, including student learning effectiveness, school management and governance, high-performance competitions, and enrollment specialization analysis. Our university also implements the disclosure of information on school affairs by regularly updating the results of NTSU’s Higher Education SPROUT Project. We also ensure students’ participation in important meetings on campus and give student representatives the right to make proposals to guarantee students’ rights and interests in school affairs.