Operations of School-Level Committees

NUK’s committees are divided into school-level, college-level, and department-level, and each committee is categorized according to its nature as shown in table:

The school's resource input for the development of school affairs includes: manpower, funds, space, library and equipment, all of which are planned and configured with complete administrative support and relevant regulations, and are supervised, checked and reviewed by various types of selection committees. Details are as follows:

Committee functions

System and Operations of Elected Representatives

For the committees related to the rights and interests of faculty, staff and students, except for the members of each gender, more than one-third of the committee members are included in the committee members voted (or recommended) by relevant stakeholders to protect the rights and interests of relevant personnel and fully express their opinions.

Composition of important governing committees 2024

Link Results of The University-College-Department and Research Centers and PDCA

After coordination of related departments and faculty, NUK Artificial Intelligence Research Center was founded in line with the national development policy of high-tech artificial intelligence (AI) to cultivate various cross-field talents suitable for the development of AI-related industries, expand NUK’s AI research and development resources, and integrate the AI relationship institute and teachers in the university. In 2022, under the cross-disciplinary cooperation of Professor Wu Zhihong of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Professor Hong Zongbei of the Department of Information Engineering, Professor Zhong Yizhang of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Engineering, and Professor Yu Zhaoqiu of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, their work result, “Laser Assisted Rapid Response Controlled Adhesion Smart Tape” won the Future Science and Technology Award of the National Science and Technology Council. 

In recent years, it has assisted enterprises in conducting hundreds of hours of training courses to strengthen the digital skills of employees, cultivate artificial intelligence seed talents in various departments of enterprises, and guide internal development towards manufacturing digitalization, introduce artificial intelligence applications to accelerate intelligent manufacturing, and enhance the competitiveness of enterprises. In addition to cross-domain cooperation and cultivation of scientific and technological talents, the Center works with "e-Eureka Information Volunteer Group" of the Department of Electrical Engineering to go to elementary schools in remote areas to teach students and promote information education. It also cooperates with the Department of Electrical Engineering, the Department of Information Engineering, the Department of Information Management, and The Department of Kinesiology, Health, and Leisure Studies to develop the application of smart technology in sports and health.

The Disaster Prevention and Rescue Science and Technology Research Center affiliated to the College of Engineering was inaugurated on April 8, 2015, which is the first disaster prevention center in Kaohsiung City. It combines the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering to provide disaster prevention related courses, assist students to obtain the specialist certificate of disaster prevention, and provide governments advice in storm and landslide related disasters, assist the Kaohsiung City Government in formulating disaster prevention and rescue plans, implementing disaster prevention and rescue work, and coordinating disaster prevention and relief resources, and further expand the training of national prevention and rescue personnel.

The Disaster Prevention Center, through on-site investigation of community environments, integrates various community resources, improves community disaster prevention and rescue energy, assists in organizing community disaster prevention and rescue related education and training, practical exercises, observation activities, and exchange of results, and organizes the Ministry of the Interior's National Fire Agency's Disaster Prevention Officer training courses. In 2024, a total of 13 resilient community education training courses, 9 drills or practical exercises, and 15 classes of the Disaster Prevention Officer training courses were held. A total of 703 people has been certified as disaster prevention officers.

Risk Analysis

1.Risk analysis

 The NUK SWOT analysis presents internal and external influencing factors: internationalization of higher education, decline of birth rate and aging population, national science and technology policy, Sprout Project of higher education, industrial development trend of Kaohsiung City.

SWOT Analysis

2. Actions to be taken

In the face of the results of the SWOT analysis mentioned above, in the past, when the University implemented the results of the Teaching Excellence Program from 2015 to 2017, the focus of the University's development from 2018 to 2022 was drawn up, which was to continue to make progress in the directions of (i) flexibility in teaching innovation; (ii) deep rooting of the industry-academia in the local community; (iii) linking of international cooperation with the SDGs; (iv) adding values to the SDGs-Inside, and to put forward five strategic objectives, evaluation indexes and action plans for the development of the University's affairs. In 2023-2026, not only the University continues the core concept of "SDGs-Inside", but also emphasizes the establishment of multiple links to external resources, and analyzes the school's potential for development through SWOT analysis, and formulates four major development goals, 12 strategies and action plans.

 Faculty and Academic Ethics

1. In response to “Principles for Handling Academic Ethics Cases in Colleges and Universities", "Principles for Handling Violations of Teacher Qualification Requirements by Teachers in Colleges and Universities", and “Key Points for Handling and Deliberation of Academic Ethics Cases in the National Science and Technology Council", the University has formulated “Rules for Handling Academic Ethics Cases of Teachers and Researchers" to establish an objective and fair process for handling academic ethics cases involving teachers and researchers and establish a mechanism for academic self-discipline. No academic ethics cases involving teacher qualifications were sent to trial in 2024.
2. In order to establish a mechanism for academic ethics, “Academic Ethics Implementation Regulations" have been formulated, which stipulates that project directors applying for a the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) project for the first time, and the participating researchers listed in the application for the first-time execution of the MOST project should complete at least six hours of training in academic ethics education courses within three years prior to the date of the application for the research project. Participating researchers who are hired for the first time to carry out the National Science and Technology Council project after the start of the project should complete six hours of training in academic ethics education courses within three months from the start date of the project.

Anti-corruption Policies

1. Through various meetings and channels, the school publicizes the Civil Service Act, the Code of Conduct for Public Servants, the Corruption Control Ordinance and other relevant regulations, and reiterates that public servants should perform their duties impartially in accordance with the law, and should not use the powers, methods or opportunities of their duties to obtain unlawful benefits for themselves or for a third party, so as to enhance the image of honesty and integrity.
2. Before the three festivals: the Spring Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival, the school will promote the observance of “Code of Ethics for Civil Servants" and “Code of Ethics for Civil Servants and Teachers of the Ministry of Education and its affiliated institutions and schools". With regard to the regulations on "accepting gifts" and "banquets and socializing ", in the event that an individual, legal person, or organization with a functional interest in the agency gives a gift of property or invites a person to a banquet, the gift should be refused or returned, and the procedures for notifying and registering the gift should be implemented.
3. Set up a special area for disclosure of conflict of interest and avoidance of identity on the website of the NUK Personnel Office to publicize the regulations related to administrative neutrality and avoidance of interest of public servants for the reference of faculty and staff, and to implement the declaration of public servants' properties.

List of Laws and Regulations to be Observed by Each Personnel Category