Enrollment and Support Policies for the Underprivileged, Physically Disabled, and Minority Groups

In order to ensure equal educational resources and opportunities, the University provides diversified and flexible admission channels, promotes “Vision Plan” for underprivileged students, and optimizes the learning support system for economically or culturally underprivileged students, so as to realize the spirit of the public nature of higher education; at the same time, in order to help students explore their careers and career enrichment programs, the school sets up an interactive social networking platform to provide educational resources and life support channels, and has completed "Five Special Methods on the Learning Support Mechanism" to support students to learn at ease.

Enrollment and Support Strategies for Equalizing Educational Opportunities

1.Diversified Access to Education and Its Efficacy for Economically or Culturally Underprivileged Students:

  In line with the MOE's initiative since 2021 to provide opportunities for local and underprivileged students to study at national universities with local characteristics, the school aims to promote social mobility. In 2021, a total of 8 departments applied for “Vision Plan", and the MOE approved 37 enrollments and 18 admissions; in 2021, the enrollment was increased to 42 students and 29 admissions; in 2023, the enrollment was 50 students and 41 students were admitted. The enrollment for the 2024 academic year was 45 and the number of students accepted was 25.

Approved enrollment, No. applicants & No. students admitted to each department of Vision Plan

2.Through the enrollment channels of "Star Plan" and "Application for Admission", the school plans for priority admission for underprivileged students, additional quota for indigenous students and for the Vision group, so as to expand the channels for them and to fulfill the public responsibility of the higher education. In addition, in 2020, the MOE approved the establishment of a special selection admission program, which covers new residents and economically underprivileged students.

3.Admission examination for new resident students: Starting from 2022, the admission examination is conducted in accordance with the school's "Admission Regulations for New Residents," and the target applicants are those who have applied for naturalization in accordance with the provisions of Article 4, paragraph 1, subparagraphs 1 to 3 of the Nationality Act (spouses from Chinese or Hong Kong or Macao are not applicable).

Enrollment channel of economically or culturally underprivileged students planned enrollment

Learning Support for Economically or Culturally Underprivileged Students

1. Enhancement of academic and career counseling activities: In order to ensure equal resources and opportunities, the school gives priority to economically or culturally underprivileged students to participate in remedial courses, career counseling activities, national examination counseling classes or to further their education; it also provides counseling for them to participate in professional certification courses, and invites instructors from professional associations to teach so as to strengthen their professional functions.

Number of economically or culturally underprivileged students participating in counseling

2.Organize “Happy Learning” Study Groups for Economically or Culturally Unprivileged Students: In 2019-2024, the average percentage of students who participated in academic counseling improved by 45.51%. In 2021 the activity was changed to online Club due to the COVID-19 outbreak, but the number of students remained as high as 154 students.

3.Formulate “Implementation Key Points of Academic Guidance for Students": The Academic Affairs Office will assist all departments and institutes in providing academic counseling to students who failed one-half of their subjects in the previous semester and to economically or culturally disadvantaged students who have poor learning outcomes; this will include developing remedial courses by the senior students, tutoring by teaching assistants, one-on-one teaching and online teaching. Meetings are held at the beginning of each semester and priority is given to those who failed one-half of their subjects in the previous semester and economically or culturally underprivileged students who need academic counseling. In the 2021-2023, there are a total of 95 teaching assistants with a total of 3,917 counseling visits. The average number of counseling sessions per academic year is 1306. The achievements of the counseling can be found in Section 4.1.1, Student Learning Early Warning and Improvement..

Life Support and Outcomes for Economically or Culturally Underprivileged Students

1.Five major support bills: the school has passed five major support bills for economically underprivileged students, including: "Essentials of study grants", "Essentials of off-campus internships", "Essentials of awards for obtaining public offices and licenses", "Essentials of awards for students' participation in activities" and "Essentials of awards for participating in contests", and the school continues to optimize the implementation in order to improve the caring mechanism to the fullest extent. Since its implementation in 2019, the various types of subsidies have amounted to more than $8 million, benefiting more than 600 students.

Number and amount of economically or culturally underprivileged students supported through the five support bills

2.Encourage economically underprivileged students to organize recruitment activities through clubs: To formulate "Appendix 1 of the Social Clubs Participating in Sprout Project Scheme: Reference Benchmarks for the Scoring of Subsidy Scrutiny of Senior High School Recruitment Promotion Activities" in order to publicize NUK’s diversified professional learning resources, the campus environment, and the learning effectiveness.

3.Academic Counseling for Advanced Professional Courses:

The school has strengthened its counseling measures for high risk or economically underprivileged students by focusing on key courses or courses with high demand. For example, the school focuses on allocating hourly fees for tutorials, inviting seniors to serve as tutors, one-on-one teaching, online teaching, and providing regular counseling every semester at regular intervals, so as to reduce the number of failing students and create peer learning for the betterment of the students, thus achieving the effect of mutual benefit in teaching and learning.

4.Focus on career, academic and career counseling for economically or culturally underprivileged students:

   Based on “Key Points of Incentives for Economically Underprivileged Students to Obtain Public Offices and Licenses”, provide "Indigenous Language Courses", "TQC Excel Advanced & Professional Courses", and "Planning Staff Development Workshops" for economically underprivileged students in order to assist them in obtaining certificates and enhance their competitiveness in future employment.

   In addition to financial support and academic counseling for economically or culturally underprivileged students, the school also provides ethnic language instruction, multicultural experiences, intensive community activities, and long-term accompaniment by administrators through the Center for Indigenous Students, which provides comprehensive learning resources and life counseling support from different perspectives. The determination and desire for upward mobility demonstrated by the students have been recognized by the External Advisory Committee of the past years.

Employment and Support Programs for People with Disabilities

In order to protect the rights and interests of persons with physical and mental disabilities and make full use of them, the University specifies the key points of them in school, and implements full use of persons with disabilities by its responsible units. In 2024, it makes full use of persons with disabilities every month.

Ratio of employment of persons with physical and mental disabilities

* Calculated based on the number of employees on December 1 of each year

Provide comfortable accommodation

In order to improve the quality of student housing, the University has applied for funding from the Ministry of Education's program since 2019. The internal improvement of comprehensive dormitory was completed in 2020. In May 2022, the Ministry of Education approved the overall improvement plan for upgrading the basic facilities and public space of student dormitories, and the project is in progress and scheduled for completion in 2025. The University applied for the MOE partial subsidy to improve the disabled access in the 1st Student Dormitory. In the summer vacation of 2023, 6 rooms with disabled facilities were renovated and improved. After the improvement, not only will the students with physical disabilities be able to live and study in a comfortable environment, but also the student dormitories will become a place for communication, learning, and growth among the students, transforming the dormitory area into a living and learning space.

In order to take care of underprivileged students, the priority for housing applications is given to students with low-income, medium-low-income, or special situation by Dormitory Office. According to “NUK Student Dormitory Underprivileged Student Aid Service Practice Points”, the University provides free school housing for underprivileged students in terms of them taking part in 16 hours of service, which will help to alleviate their financial stress and cultivate a sense of responsibility and self-confidence. Since its inception, there have been an average of 60 to 100 participants each year. Starting from the second semester of the 2023 academic year, the Ministry of Education promoted the “subsidy for on-campus housing for college and university students” program, which provides a subsidy of NT$5,000 per semester for each resident student, and a subsidy of NT$7,000 per semester for those who have a low-income or medium-low-income status, to ease the burden of student housing and to support young people's concentration on their studies.