Accomplishments
A. An Administration Dedicated to Progress
1. Organizational Reform and Revisions to Regulations
NTU, under the "Aim for Top University Project," has implemented a wide variety of improvement programs in its pursuit of the ideals of educational excellence, research excellence and social concern. These improvements are intended to help the university raise the bar by becoming the pinnacle Chinese university and entering the ranks of the first-rate universities of the world, while at the same time "providing faculty and students with an excellent environment for first-rate learning and innovation, cultivating the outstanding youth of society, raising academic standards in Taiwan, facilitating national economic development and providing solutions to the important problem of sustainable development for humanity."
As the implementation of innovative policy requires progressive administrative support, NTU has carried out organizational adjustments and enacted revisions to its organizational regulations in order to raise the quality and efficiency of campus administration and coordinate with development of university affairs. This reform has been focused on the functions and composition of NTU's university affairs organization. The number of organizational units has been reduced from 379 to 167. The university-- also in coordination with the development of university affairs-- added, adjusted and merged organizational units with the organizational levels of evaluation units. For instance, the Research and Development Committee has been renamed the Office of Research and Development and the Center for International Academic Exchanges has been elevated to the Office of International Affairs. The Office of Financial Management has been added, allowing for the elimination of the three units in charge respectively of financial affairs, resource development and business management. This new unit manages financial affairs, acquires funding and develops new businesses in order to oversee the allocation of the university's financial resources. Under the Ministry of Education's newly formulated "Organizational and Operational Regulations for the National University President Selection Committee," the university's university president selection process has been changed to a single-stage selection system in which a single university president selection committee selects the president directly. Revisions to NTU's organizational planning regulations were passed at the second campus affairs meeting of the second semester of the 2006 academic year and took effect on August 1, 2007 following their approval by the Ministry of Education.