The first objective is putting innovative teaching into practice. In order to enhance instructors’ skills in teaching and curriculum design, university promote serval projects to encourage professors to put the creativity, innovation and entrepreneur factors into their classes. For training students to develop abilities expected of them by the contemporary society, self-motivated learning project assists self-designed independent students to build teams to pursue their own ideas into reality.

 

     The second thing is to place more stress on the public-good nature of higher education. Percentage of low socioeconomic status (SES) student in NDHU is about 14% in 2019. We have the responsibility to offer adequate resources for better learning experience to these students. I can fly supporting group (ICF) provide mentors’ assistance and counseling for students to have better adjustment on campus. Study grant reduces the SES student economic pressure and increase their experience of learning from doing. Due to make higher education database open to the public, NDHU manage an institutional research (IR) team to establish a data storage system which can collect and analysis data from students, staff and other activities in campus. So that can help school to improve its decision making process.

 

     The social responsibility of NDHU is to build nexus with local elementary/middle schools, cultural organizations, communities and industries. Through the participation in social issue, educational service and industry needs, NDHU students and staff get attention on all aspects in Hualien area. For example, each summer and winter vacation, NDHU team up with local school to hold reading, science, and physical education camp, it can bring new and rich education resource into communities. Moreover, NDHU Industrial Innovation-lncubation Center assisted 26 student teams to participate internal and external competitions in 2019. One of them received subsidies each year in the U-Start Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program of the Youth Department of the Ministry of Education.

 

     To make NDHU global visibility, the following projects have been well organized. 

     Sticking on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to ensure NDHU is a partner of international community. Provide more exchange programs with abroad colleges to improve intercultural exchange on campus. Providing better English-taught, Chinese language courses, and cultural activities assist international students merged with campus life. In fall semester 2019, NDHU oversea students had come to thousand who were from about 50 different countries.