Fu Jen Catholic University


Fu Jen Catholic University is a top private university in Xinzhuang, New Taipei City, Taiwan. The university was founded in 1925 in Beijing as Fu Jen Academy, at the request of Pope Pius XI, and re-established in Taiwan in 1961 at the request of Pope John XXIII. Its name means "assistance" and "benevolence".
Fu Jen is the oldest Catholic and Jesuit-affiliated institution of higher education in the Sinophone world, especially known for its strong ties with the Roman Curia. The university has since grown to comprise twelve colleges and schools, among which are several Taiwan's first/only academic units, such as Italian language, information management, museology, religious studies, and philosophy. Fu Jen is also the only university that hosts an A&HCI journal in the whole country.
The university has been ranked as top 300 by Times Higher Education Impact Ranking, top 100 in theology and top 500 in humanities and medicine by QS World University Rankings, it has the nation's first business school there with AACSB accreditation and also the medical college was the earliest to promote PBL as pedagogy for medical education, furthermore, the transnational joint master's program "MGEM" was ranked 31st globally by Financial Times in 2019. Currently, Fu Jen is Taiwan's 4th most popular university, 5th most impact university, and 5th best ranked business school. Fu Jen alumni include the Premier Lin Chuan, former First Lady of China Wang Guangmei, a number of politicians represented in the Legislative Yuan and professors at various world-class institutions.
Fu Jen is a member of the Alliance of Asian Liberal Arts Universities, along with the UTokyo, Waseda, Peking and others. The university has many collaborative institutions and exchange programs with top universities in G8 countries, such as Stanford, Oxford, and Angelicum. In addition, Fu Jen has established sister-school relationships with more than 376 universities worldwide that including Georgetown, Notre Dame, UC Berkeley, Tohoku, and C9 League universities. Fu Jen is home of the University Mobility in Asia and the Pacific, also a member of academic organisations like the Beta Gamma Sigma, the Association of Christian Universities and Colleges in Asia, the AWS Educate & AWS Academy, and the International Federation of Catholic Universities.
The Fu Jen campus is served by Fu Jen University Station, a metro station named after the university.

History

The institution was originally established in Beijing in 1925 by the Benedictines of St. Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, at the request of the Holy See. Fu Jen, then commonly known as The Catholic University of Peking, was itself a successor to the Fu Jen Academy, which was created through the efforts of Catholic scholars Ma Xiangbo and Ying Lianzhi. The university's first president was the American missionary George Barry O'Toole, OSB. He was succeeded by Chen Yuan, a Chinese Protestant, who remained university president until the school's forced closure by the Chinese Communist government in 1952.
In 1933 the Benedictines in the United States, in the midst of the Great Depression, were no longer able to sustain Fu Jen's mission. Administration of the university passed to the Society of the Divine Word in Germany. Its affiliation with Germany, an ally of Imperial Japan, helped protect university personnel from extreme brutality inflicted elsewhere by occupying Imperial Japanese soldiers during the Sino-Japanese War. After the Communists assumed power in China in 1949, religious organisations, including the Catholic Church, began to be systematically repressed. In 1952 this intensified and the government merged Fu Jen with the Beijing Normal University, Peking University, Renmin University, China University of Political Science and Law, and Central University of Finance and Economics. Fu Jen was re-established in 1961 in Taiwan. The new school opened under the auspices of the Chinese Regional Bishops' Conference, the Society of Jesus, and the Society of the Divine Word.
The university has since grown to comprise twelve colleges and schools and a hospital. Fu Jen Catholic University Hospital was opened in September 2017. The College of Medicine can be used as a conduit for cooperation between different academic disciplines, and assume a leading role in bringing together the colleges of biotechnology, chemistry, physics, engineering, management, and foreign languages. The establishment of a completely new curriculum and unique program will include training in hospital management and medical translation, research in laser technology and biotechnology, integration of Western and Chinese medicine, and robotic surgery.

Spirit

The university motto, Veritas, Bonitas, Pulchritudo, Sanctitas in Latin, expresses four ideals: Truth, Goodness, Beauty, Sanctity.
The laurel wreath symbolizes honor and peace while the twelve stars signify the Virgin Mary. The cross represents the Christian faith. The two colors on the shield suggest Christ's dual nature as the rounded shape of the shield recalls the Sacred Heart. The Latin words on the banner beneath the emblem, the university motto, express the four ideals of the university while the three folds of the banner suggest the Trinity.

Governance

The University at present comprises 12 colleges with more than 25,000 students.
Fu Jen University established Taiwan's first graduate-level program in conference interpreting, the Graduate Institute of Translation and Interpreting Studies. Also Fu Jen has annexed a Mandarin Language Center, established in 1964 to address the need for foreign missionaries to learn Chinese teaching hundreds of students each semester from countries worldwide Taiwanese, and every semester offers cultural classes such as Chinese Poetry, Chinese calligraphy, and Taijiquan.
The School of Medicine is one of the medical schools in Taiwan to adopt the pedagogy, "problem-based learning ", first developed at McMaster University Medical School in Canada, so that students can acquire medical knowledge from small group discussions and case studies. The implementation of PBL has won applause from the Taiwan Medical Accreditation Council and brought a wave of reform in medical education in Taiwan. In order to successfully practice PBL, the School has recruited basic scientists with specialties in various areas as well as more than one hundred clinicians as a strong backbone for teaching. Fu Jen's is the only medical school in Taiwan which uses PBL as a pedagogy for the third and fourth year curriculum.

Globalization

;Fu Jen - Stanford
;Fu Jen - Oxford
;Fu Jen - IQS -USF
;Fu Jen - UC Berkeley
;Global Leadership Program with universities in Japan, Korea and Philippines
;Service-Learning Center

Academic reputation

Fu Jen ranks at the top of Taiwan's private universities for top-ranked fields of study and distinguished alumni. The University has always been ranked in the QS World University Rankings and Times Higher Education World University Rankings, which is among the first or top 10 in the whole country. In addition, Fu Jen and National Taipei University are the representative university of New Taipei City by QS Most Affordable Cities for Students Ranking.
In 2014, the Embassy of Japan in Taiwan listed Fu Jen Catholic University as one of the seven well-known Taiwanese universities.
;Times Higher Education Impact Ranking
;Global Entrepreneurial Management rank no. 43 by Financial Times UK
;APQN Internal Quality Insurance Reward
;AACSB Global Business Accreditation

Fu Jen Academia Catholica

Fu Jen Academia Catholica was inaugurated on August 1, 2008, to enable interdisciplinary pursuits in Catholic studies. The Academia consists of five Fu Jen academic institutes or centers: the Institute of Scholastic Philosophy,
Institutum Historiae Ecclesiae, Center for the Study of Science and Religion, Monumenta Serica Sinological Research Center, and John Paul II Institute for Research into Dialogue for Peace.

Campus

The campus of Fu Jen Catholic University is 40 million square meters, the size is close to the Vatican City and Osaka University Toyonaka campus.
Fu Jen's Xinzhuang campus is known as "tree house campus".

Notable alumni and Honorary doctorates

Fu Jen alumni number near 200,000, they work in various fields. Alumni working in political fields include at least 25 congressman in Legislative Yuan, 3 Taiwanese Justices of Constitutional Court, 3 Taiwanese Premier/Vice-Premier, 2 Taiwanese Minister/Deputy-Minister of National Defense, a large number of Taiwanese diplomats, mayors and magistratea, and former Chinese first lady Wang Guangmei.
Notable alumni from science filed are Wei-min Hao, climate scientist and contributor to the IPCC, Harvard professor Lee-Jen Wei, notable physicist Lee C. Teng. In addition, there are also alumni working at Yale, Stanford, Columbia, Georgetown, and Northwestern. So far, many academicians and university presidents such as Tsinghua's :zh:刘达|Liu Da have graduated from the university.

Affiliated schools

In 2016, Fu Jen University was accused of pressuring students to remain silent on sexual assault cases and for covering up an incident of rape in 2015. Following the accusation, the university issued an apology later in 2016.

Partner Institution

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