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Life at NCHU (Introduction to NCHU Student Clubs)

The student clubs and autonomous organizations of our school are divided into nine categories: autonomous, musical, technical, academic, artistic, religious, sports, service and fellowship. There are a total of 90 formal clubs ,48 autonomous organizations and 7 preparatory clubs in the 113 academic year.

Class Counseling Service

1. Introduction:

Each counseling session is led by a professional counselor who guides participants to better understand themselves and their ideas, thoughts, and attitudes towards life through a series of explorative, topic-based activities. If you and your classmates are interested, you can sign up for a session or ask your academic advisor to do it for you.

2. Application procedures:

1) Download the application form from the Health and Counseling Center website.

2) Email the completed form to counsel@nchu.edu.tw.

3) Applications must be submitted at least 20 days in advance. A staff member will call or email you within 3 business days of receiving your application to confirm the details of the appointment.

4) Three days prior to the appointment, the staff member will call you again to confirm the contents of the counseling session and the necessary preparations on your part.

5) After the counseling session, participants are required to fill out a feedback questionnaire.

Academic Affairs System – Curriculum

Navigate to the NCHU homepage, click (tap) on the “Single Sign-On” link, and log into the system with your username and password. Once logged in, select “System Portal/Academic Affairs System” and then select “Course Management”:

1. In the “My Course” view, you can fill in the syllabus for each course to help students better understand the course contents. The following information can be supplied on the Academic Affairs System: course outline, weekly lecture topics, assessment methods, list of references, course materials, and office hours.

2. In the “Course History” view, you will see a list of courses you have previously offered.

Chinese Language Courses

Practical Chinese credit courses are designed to improve students’ Chinese listening, speaking, reading, and writing proficiency in a comprehensive manner. This series of courses is divided into four levels, each worth three credits (three hours per week). The courses are intended for international students and exchange students at the University whose mother tongue is not Mandarin Chinese.

NCHU Single Sign-on (SSO)

The University offers single sign-on (SSO) service to allow for easy access to important online resources without requiring separate authentication. Users only need to remember one set of login credentials to access all online services.

Art Center

The NCHU Art Center organizes art exhibitions and cultural exchanges, assists in the beautification of the campus, and works to improve faculty and students’ appreciation of art and strengthen their aesthetic education. The Center invites well-known local and international artists to hold exhibitions at the University after recommendation and approval by a consulting and review committee composed of experts and scholars. Each exhibition usually lasts about a month, and an average of eight art exhibitions are planned every year. The Center also organizes activities, international exchanges, lectures, presentations, symposiums, workshops, and other art and cultural events in conjunction with university campaigns. Additionally, the Center has a well-equipped curation room with a collection of over 1500 artworks, and publishes collection catalogues as a medium to promote cultural exchange.

Waste Disposal and Recycling

General waste disposal: General waste (including kitchen waste) is collected by campus garbage trucks at fixed locations between 8:20–10:35 a.m. every business day.

* Note: Please store general waste in transparent plastic bags only.

Recycling: Recyclable materials are collected by recycling trucks at fixed locations between 8:20–10:35 a.m. on Tuesdays and Fridays.

On Tuesday: Paper lunch boxes and non-paper materials (including iron cans, aluminum cans, plastic bottles, plastic containers, and recyclable plastic products)

On Friday: Paper lunch boxes and other paper materials

*Paper lunch boxes must be properly cleaned before disposal to ensure that no leftovers remain.

Patent Applications

1. Pursuant to Article 2 of the University’s Regulations Governing the Management and Utilization of Research and Development Outcomes, the intellectual property rights of research and development (R&D) outcomes produced by faculty members and students using NCHU resources belong solely to the University unless otherwise stipulated in a separate contract or other applicable regulations. Faculty members who wish to apply for a patent must do so through the Division of Patent and Technology Transfer in accordance with internal regulations.

2. Patent fees may be shared in different percentages with different royalty distribution ratios:

Cost sharing scheme

Cost borne

By researcher

Cost borne

by NCHU

Royalty assigned to researcher

(department outcomes)

Royalty assigned to researcher

(non-department outcomes)

Scheme Ⅰ

40%

60%

32%

40%

Scheme Ⅱ

100%

0%

64%

80%

3. The University only provides funding for invention patents, the guidelines for which are as follows:

The University may subsidize up to three R.O.C. patent applications per researcher per year (Plan I).

Those who meet both of the following requirements are eligible for subsidies for patent applications in foreign territories:

1) R&D outcomes represented by the researcher have undergone a technology transfer by the University with a value of NT$1 million or more.

2) The patent application has been reviewed by two or more experts in writing and has been approved by the Patent and Technology Transfer Promotion Committee.

The cost sharing scheme will be the same for both domestic and foreign applications for the same patent.