Achievement Summary and Highlights in 2024-2025
The second phase of our university'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," "Industry-Academic Cooperation," and "Making Resources More Public," combined with the vision, self-identification, and purpose of our university's Medium-Term Development Plan. Our university has strengthened its 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 (2025-2027) of our university’s Higher Education SPROUT Project is currently subsidized by the Ministry of Education (MOE) with NT$38.12 million, and the overall budget implementation rate reached 72.98% in October 31th 2025. 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. Our university strengthens the faculty structure through teacher empowerment and incentive mechanisms. In 2025, teachers and students won 7 Guo-Guang Sports Awards, 20 articles were published in the Q1 category of journal articles, and there were 74 industry-academic cooperation cases. Regarding students, 14 student study groups were established in 2025, and 467 students were rewarded for obtaining professional licenses. To upgrade the learning environment, 21 learning spaces were upgraded in 2025 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,” in 2025, 6 children’s physical education courses were held in Nantou, Hualien, Taitung, and other Indigenous tribe schools, and 215 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, 335 people have been engaged in community leisure sports activities, and our program has promoted 150 people with disadvantages to participate in sports activities.
Industry-Academic Cooperation
Our university 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.” We cultivated 6 reports on the top high-performance sports talents; cultivated talents in children's and adapted physical education, creating 25 teaching materials for children's gross motor skills courses and obtaining 40 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 27 public welfare services, promoted the sports guidance course for the middle-aged and elderly to serve 1,534 people inside and outside the school, and promoted grassroots sports protection education in cooperation with 13 institutions, with 369 people participating; we obtained 35 certificates for Stand-Up Paddling (SUP) and international Keelboat for marine recreation talents, echoed the 2019 National Curriculum Guidelines, promoted 10 high school principals to participate in outdoor exploration courses, and cultivated sports media talents to create sports content by going to the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
Making Resources More Public
Regarding students, 151 economically or culturally disadvantaged students were recruited in 2025. In 2025, the number of socioeconomically disadvantaged students who participated in diverse counseling mechanisms reached 278, and NT$5.673 million in grants was disbursed. Our external fundraising mechanism built NT$4.069 million to support disadvantaged students in 2025.
Regarding faculties, we maintained the higher quality of the student-teacher ratio. The student-teacher ratio was 14.1% in the 2025 academic year.
In terms of institutional research, there were 8 cases of analysis of institutional affairs in 2025, 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 continuously updating the results of the 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.