ADMINISTRATION OF STUDENT HOUSING

1. This university currently has twelve student dormitories (two are specifically for graduate students) to house a total of 6,484 students. The occupancy rate is 93%.

2. The dormitories do not accommodate all the students at the moment. Allocation of the dormitories is based on departments. The priority for lodging in the dormitories is: (1) handicapped students, (2) first-year students from out of Tainan City and County, (3) Overseas Chinese and foreign students, (4) second, third, and fourth students from out of Tainan City and County. As for graduate students and Adult Education Division students, rooms are allocated by lot- drawing based on the number of beds available.

3. In line with the student self-discipline system, each student dormitory has an Autonomy Committee to enforce the Dormitory Management Regulations. With the consultation of the concerned staff, meetings are held once a month. The military instructors act as go-betweens to help student solve problems.

PUBLIC FUNDS, GRANTS;

In order to help students from poor families, besides public funds and grants, this university has established scholarships to assist those who are in need of financial help.

Public Funds:

Limited to the students from the families of deceased soldiers, government employees or staff of public schools, stipends of $2,000 NT per semester for uniforms, $300 NT for books, and $2,800 NT for non-staple food are available.

Grants:

Grants from the Ministry of Education: $3,040 NT per person per month, requiring a grade point average of 70 or above. The budget totals $17,000,000 NT every year.

STUDENT ASSOCIATIONS

The guidance and management of student associations must be carried out by the Extracurricular Activity Division in accordance with the concerned directives of the Ministry of Education and the regulations of the University's Student Activity Center.

There are presently 131 student associations, which can be categorized into seven types:

(1) Departmental Associations: The main activities include organizing scholarly research, publishing academic articles, arranging visits to factories, inviting special lecturers, and showing scientific films.

(2) Scholarly Associations: The main activities include holding seminars, publishing literary and displaying artistic creations, planning debates, arranging special lectures and panel discussions, photographing, and inventing.

(3) Art Associations: The main interests include calligraphy, photography, earthenware, posters, etc.

(4) Recreational Associations: The main interests include Beijing opera, Chinese music, singing concerts, ensembles, dramatic plays, song and dance activities, wind instrument concerts, board games, and card games.

(5) Service Associations: The main activities are aimed to promote the public welfare of students in this university and the general public.　

(6) Athletic Associations: plans the athletic activities, such as Chinese martial arts, judo, karate, taekwondo, and kendo, to develop strong minds and healthy bodies.

(7) Social Associations: The main objectives are to strengthen relations among graduate students, female students, overseas Chinese and foreign students, and all students of this university.

Scholarships:

There are some 410-plus scholarships offered by consortia, government organizations, cultural and educational foundations, religious groups or individuals.

HEALTH MAINTENANCE

The medical treatment and health maintenance for the entire faculty, staff, and students of this university are the responsibilities of the Health Department under the Office of Student Affairs. The objective of this Department is to promote health service, disease prevention, and health maintenance. Its functions include student health examinations, defect adjustment, health consultations, general medical treatment, disease prevention, and first aid.

Layout of Facilities:

The Health Department is located on the second floor of the Student Activity Center in Kuang-Fu Campus. It includes a physical examination and therapeutic room, an injection room, a pharmacy, a health consultation room, an oral hygiene room, an office, a storage room, a waiting room, and a registration office.

Health Maintenance:

1) Services include health checkups and treatment for students, 2) trachoma prevention and eyesight protection, 3) preventive inoculations for hepatitis-B and German measles, 4) seminars on the knowledge of first aid and other health issues, 5) anti-smoking and anti-drug campaigns, 6) improving the hygiene of campus environment, 7) disease prevention in cooperation with the Health Department of Tainan City, and 8) supervising the sanitation of university restaurants.

Clinical Service：

The internal and surgical service is provided by an adjunct university physician.

The hours are every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons.

Student Guidance

In 1975, the Student Guidance center was established to meet the need of student guidance activities. In 1995, the center was renamed the Student Guidance Section, which carries out the following plans and promotions:

1. Providing individual counseling, and counseling by telephone, mail or on-line computer.

2. Providing group counseling to help students develop positive attitudes.

3. Holding a “Psychological Test Week” every semester.

4. Providing all kinds of psychological inventory to help students' self understanding and career planning.

5. Holding a “Guidance Week” every semester.

6. Setting up counseling on line under the IP address of 140.116.148.152/sgc.

7. Holding seminars on topics such as interpersonal relationships, career planning, or love affairs.

8. Organizing a volunteers group to help teenagers adjust their life.

9. Publishing “NCKU Guidance News”, “Students Guidance Journal” and “Parents Communication of NCKU”

10. Holding parents' meetings at different places once every semester

Teacher-counselor system

According to “The National College Teacher-Counselor Regulations” from the Ministry of Education in 1990, we began to push a teacher-counselor job, to settle the function of teacher-counselors. Each teacher-counselor takes care of approximately 20 students. For any class of more than 30 students, we place two or three teacher-counselors. In order to do this job better, we transferred the business from the extra-curricular division to student counseling center and passed the new regulations of the teacher-counselors in 1998.

We have 7 different teacher-counselor group patterns. Most of the departments prefer “ small groups “, and some prefer “family groups”. In 1999 we had 684 teacher-counselors, each teacher-counselor taking care of 20 students, and autonomy is quite popular in each department. Also we have some following unique features:

(1) Learning guidance is included.

(2) A warning system concerning student’s academic and behavior aspects has been established.

(3) Expenditure is divided more reasonably.

(4) The expenditure into fees of teacher-counselor personnel and student guidance fees is allocated

(5) Graduate student guidance has been established.

In addition to an improved system, we still inherited some advantages from the past. For example, the semester based class meeting, various teacher student interaction, field trips, and artistic activities. Also we have several seminars for teacher-counselors, which are hosted by the college president and chief administrators.

In 1998, we began a new program---campus symposia, which are given by a certain teacher-counselor, with emphasis on teacher- student relationships.

Finally we publish a newsletter every semester, and information concerning teacher-counselor and student activities is provided.

EMPLOYMENT AND PLACEMENT FOR GRADUATING STUDENTS;

To help students understand their own characteristics, special disposition, and interests, be aware of the general environments in the work place, and identify the suitable and enjoyable work that will allow them to maximize their potential, the following main tasks have been set forth by this university.

(1) Employment Guidance for University Students includes: gathering information about all national exams, entrance exams of all graduate institutes and job market status; compiling and printing pamphlets of prospective professions for graduating students; holding seminars for campus recruitment; giving special lectures on employment; arranging visits to business sectors; and encouraging a proper work attitude.

(2) Placement Counseling for Graduating Students includes job-hunting registration; openings registration; information notification; job recommendation; compilation and printing of "Annual Graduating Student Employment Guidance" Pamphlet; organizing materials of interest; and follow-up and guidance.

GUIDANCE OF OVERSEAS CHINESE AND FOREIGN STUDENTS

In accordance with regulations stipulated by the Ministry of Education and the

Overseas Student Affairs Committee, this university has established an "Overseas

Chinese and Foreign Student Guidance Center" under the Office of Student Affairs. This Center is in charge of the medical insurance for overseas Chinese and foreign students, applications for entry and exit, and scholarship students. In order to deal with difficulties encountered by overseas Chinese and foreign students in their studies, the university offers guidance and special summer tutorial classes to help them.

The recent increase of living expenses has made it difficult for some overseas Chinese students lacking sufficient support from the family. The Center pays extra attention to those who have to work after school to make sure their working environment is proper and their studies at school will not be affected.

The Office of Military Training

BRIEF HISTORY

The first appearance of military training instructors on campus dated back to 1932 during Japan’s colonial occupation in Taiwan. After World War Ⅱ, the Section of the Military Control was established in 1946 as part of the Office of the Dean of Students, and military instructors were distributed to each department for service to the students in 1958. Since July 1960, military training education has been built into the formal educational system.

At present, the Office of Military Training is staffed with one chief general military training instructor, four senior colonels, 29 military training instructors, one full-time and four part-time nursing teachers.

The Instructional Goals of the Military Training Education

On-campus military training stresses: inspiring the ethos to stimulate patriotism, enriching the military intelligence to accomplish the multi-education, instilling the martial art of military science to enhance the students' health , cultivating good habits and virtues, laying a fundamental education for reserve officers of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, broadening students` field of vision, and building the foundation for national defense.

Military Training Instructor Members

Our office is staffed with

Chief major general military training instructor 1

Senior colonel military training instructor 4

Lieutenant colonel military training instructor 18

Major military training instructor 6

Full-time nursing teacher 1

Part-time nursing teacher 4

CURRICULUM

Required:

Elective:

In addition to the task of teaching military training and nursing science, the Military Training Office co-operates with the Office of Student Affairs to deal with other matters as: shouldering on 24- hour- duty to help administrative affairs, visiting the student hospitalized for illness or accidents, consulting the dormitory autonomy, assistance for each department, supervising restaurant board, guiding off-campus lodging, handling the lost and found, taking the appeal from students` complaints, advocating the traffic safety, promoting the anti-drug and anti-smoking activities, implementing the orientation program for the freshman, performing the commencement ceremony for the senior, recommending excellent youth in good character and good academic performance, applying the full-time work for students in summer vacation, registering the activities of the Youth Corps , handling the tuition's deduction especially for the dependents of the active serviceman, arranging the youth team who should share the duty in the war time, and selecting and training the reserve officers.