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Emergency Relief Funds

1. Students who face any of the following emergencies during their period of study at the University may be eligible for emergency relief funds:

  (1) Hospitalization for an injury or illness when unable to pay for medical expenses due to financial hardship;

  (2) A major familial incident resulting in financial hardship;

  (3) Death;

  (4) Other incidents that require emergency relief.

2. To apply for emergency relief funds, the affected student or their advisor should fill out the application form and submit it along with the necessary supporting documents to the department chair/institute director and college dean for signing. Applications will be reviewed by the Office of Student Affairs’ Division of Student Life, which shall then forward them to the University’s President for approval.

3. Emergency relief funds of up to NT$30,000 may be released once per incident. The NCHU Student Emergency Relief Funds Application Guidelines and application form are available for download on the Division of Student Life website.

Externally-funded research projects—NSTC research projects

1.  All principal investigators and co-investigators must be quota-based, full-time personnel of the University.

2. The three types of research projects are as follows:

    • General research projects: The application period is in November–December each year. Exact dates will be announced by the NSTC.
    • New personnel research projects: Projects led by a domestic/international teacher or researcher who has fewer than five years of teaching/research experience or who has graduated with a doctoral degree in the past five years are eligible. Applications for such projects should be made upon the initial appointment date or within three years of the conferral of the doctoral degree and will be reviewed on an ad hoc basis. Limit one project per person.
    • Call-for-proposal projects: Please refer to announcements made by the NSTC.

3. Virement under an same approved budget may be processed in accordance with applicable regulations based on actual needs.

4. All principal investigators and researchers must complete at least six hours of academic ethics training.

Externally-funded research projects—NSTC Visiting Personnel Recruitment Project

Applicants must be teaching/research staff or first-level administrators at the University (including principal investigators of NSTC-funded projects).

    • The three types of recipients are:
    1. Chair professors: Including Distinguished Chair Professors and Chair Professors (limited to international science and technology personnel)
    2. Visiting scholars (limited to international science and technology personnel)
    3. Doctoral level researchers: Exceptional domestic or international science and technology personnel holding a doctoral degree
    • Application time frame: Applications are reviewed as they are received, but should be submitted one month before the initial date of appointment.
    • Application method: Please apply online via the NSTC’s Academic Research and Development Service Portal.
      1. Chair professors and visiting personnel: Recommended by the University following an internal review and approval process
    1. Doctoral level researchers:
      1. Those participating in an NSTC project: Applications may be submitted together with the NSTC project application, or separately following approval of the NSTC project.
      2. Those participating in an NCHU self-funded project or in charge of technology management: Applications may be submitted separately to the NSTC.
    • Funding period:
    1. Chair professors: 1 month–1 year per term
    2. Visiting personnel: 3 months–1 year per term
    3. Doctoral level researchers: 3 months–1 year per term
    • Funding items: Teaching and research expenses, airline tickets, insurance premiums, salary subsidies, labor insurance, separation pension, and R&D fees.
    • Case conclusion and account settlement:
      1. Applicants shall upload a work report to the NSTC system within two months of the project’s conclusion.
      2. The University shall process the final account settlement with the NSTC within three months of the conclusion of the project.

General education (undergraduate programs)

The curriculum framework for and related information on general education courses can be found on the General Education Center’s webpage under the Course Announcement section.

General Education—Information Literacy: Computer Programming and its Applications (undergraduate programs)

Beginning in Academic Year 2019–20, Information Literacy: Computer Programming and its Applications is now a compulsory general education course for all students except international students and continuing education undergraduate students. Please visit the General Education webpage for a list of departments that are exempt from the course. All freshmen at the University will automatically be pre-enrolled in the course. The course is conducted in two sessions, with the first taking place in the first nine weeks of the semester and the second in the last nine weeks.

Sexual harassment complaints

NCHU students who encounter sexual molestation, harassment, or bullying on campus may file a complaint with the University or request legal consultation and counseling.

Campus Bullying Complaints

1. “Campus bullying” refers to any type of bullying behavior imposed on students of the University on or off campus by any faculty member, employee, contract worker, or student, regardless of their affiliation with NCHU.

2. Elements that constitute campus bullying:

    • Behavior that disadvantages the victim
    • Intent to harm the victim
    • Causing physical or emotional damage to the victim
    • Unequal power relations existing between the imposer and the victim.
    • Other incidents deemed as bullying by the Campus Bullying Prevention Committee.

3. The Ministry of Education Anti-Bullying Hotline (1953) has specialists online 24/7 to offer counseling and bullying reporting services.

Medical Consultation

1. To provide faculty, staff, and students with comprehensive medical consultation services, the University has appointed five of the directors and attending physicians employed by its affiliated teaching hospital to each offer a session of professional medical consultation one day per week.

2. Click the link below to see a schedule of available medical consultation sessions.

3. Pursuant to the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act, campus physicians may only provide medical consultation and will not be able to prescribe any oral or external medications.

Fraud Prevention

1. When receiving a suspicious phone call, remember the “hear, hang up, and verify” principle.

Hang up the phone immediately if you hear something suspicious, and call the 165 Fraud Prevention Hotline for verification.

Do not transfer any money at a bank or ATM to avoid being scammed.

2. Fraud prevention:

Please add Trend Micro Fraud Prevention Pro as a friend on LINE, install the Trend Micro Check browser extension, turn off iMessage when not in use, and keep the 3C (calm-check-call) principle in mind.

3. What to do if you have been scammed:

Collect the necessary supporting documents and file a police report at the local police station or via the National Police Agency website, through which you may follow up on updates to your case.