National Sun Yat-sen University
National Sun Yat-sen University is a public research-intensive university renowned as an [|official think tank] scholars' community, located in Sizihwan, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and Pratas Islands, South China Sea. It listed as one of the national seven universities in research, one of the four universities that make up Taiwan's Public Ivy, and among top maritime colleges and business schools in East Asia.
The first national comprehensive university in Southern Taiwan, NSYSU was founded twice in response to the national development needs, the alumni of both the original Sun Yat-sen University and the historical Moscow Sun Yat-sen University also have contributed to the re-establishment of the university. In the beginning, all the Sun Yat-sen Universities adopted a statism educational model based-on Dr. Sun Yat-sen's philosophy. Present-day NSYSU is a normal public university, it is famous for its powerful political and commercial relations, and the exchange offices of the US Federal government, the Japanese government, and the European Commission are present on the campus.
The university often ranks among the world's top 400 universities overall, it is organized into six colleges, but it also contains a considerable number of research institutes. NSYSU's programs in applied science, management, marine sciences, and social science have consistently been ranked among Taiwan's top three. Furthermore, the university is the birthplace of the first Sinophone bulletin board system.
NSYSU's faculty maintain strong ties to industry and government officials, many of whom also serve as elite bureaucrats and NGO advisors.
History
In 1923, two years before his death, the Founding Father of the Republic of China, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, established two universities, one civil and one military. The civil university was National Kwangtung University, and the military university was Whampoa Military Academy. Both universities generated remarkable contributions and played an important education role in modern Chinese history.After National Sun Yat-sen University was established in Canton, it had to move south due to the Sino-Japanese War. The university moved first to Yunnan, and later to North Guangdong. Finally, in 1945, the university moved back to and resumed operations at its original campus in Canton.
In 1949, the government of the Republic of China moved to Taiwan. Its alumni expected the National Sun Yet-sen University to be re-established in Taiwan, but appropriate timing didn't occur until 1980, when Moscow Sun Yat-sen University graduate, President Chiang Ching-kuo gave his approval, Dr. Lee Huan then led the project to establish the university at its current campus location at Sizihwan in Kaohsiung City, the second largest metropolitan area in Taiwan. Several successive presidents all carried the tradition of nurturing the university's growth and development.
When it was re-established, the university had four departments, two graduate institutes, and 189 students. Today, the university has 6 colleges and over 9500 students, offering 18 undergraduate majors, 35 masters programs, and 26 doctorate programs. NSYSU has grown, and is now recognized with international distinction as one of Taiwan's important research and learning institutions.
NSYSU was named by the Ministry of Education as one of the country's seven major research-intensive universities in 2002. Two years later, the College of Management became the nation's first AACSB accredited public university. In addition, NSYSU received the first/second stage grant of the "Aim for the Top University Plan" from the Ministry of Education in 2011 and 2016. Four years later, the university has held the 1st "NSYSU & UCSD Joint Symposium" on international academic cooperation.
In the final two months of 2014, Nobel laureates Akira Suzuki and Hiroshi Amano visited the university.
CultureNational Sun Yat-sen University is located in Kaohsiung City, the largest port city of Taiwan. Based on the academic style that emphasizes ocean and commerce, it is not only the birthplace of Taiwan's first college of maritime sciences but also the only water sports activity on campus in Taiwan. NSYSU’s graduation conditions of the college students include "swimming", it also has a regular windsurfing competition relationship with Osaka University. Furthermore, NSYSU has a special sister school relationship with the University of California, San Diego, a research university with a similar academic style and also located near a coast.Campus and facilitiesSizihwanLocated alongside the Kaohsiung Harbor and a military base, the NSYSU campus is surrounded on three sides by mountains and also faces the open waters of the Taiwan Strait, thus making it a natural fortress. The Sizihwan beach is located right on campus which makes the campus one of the most beautiful campuses in Taiwan. The environmental characteristics are unique in the whole country, including the nature of the montane ecosystem, marine ecosystem, and coral reefs. Besides the buildings on the university campus, there is also a seaside resort, a stadium by land reclamation, Sizihwan Tunnel, and [|more historic places] leftover from the Japanese ruling era.The campus is close to the downtown but far away from the noise, there are only four roads connecting with the outside, all the lanes are close to the mountains and the sea, the terrain is dangerous. NSYSU faculties and students live with wild animals day and night. There are a large number of Formosan rock macaques, cockatoos, Pallas's squirrels, and Reeves's muntjacs, which are rich in natural ecology. However, it happens almost every day that macaques snatch food and break into dormitories and classrooms. In addition, the Sizihwan waters inhabited the endangered species Polycyanthus chiashanensis, the number is only about 50. Sizihwan historic places;Imperial Guesthouse;Sizihwan Tunnel ;Sizihwan Guesthouse of Chiang Kai-shek Pratas IslandsAcademicsNSYSU has six colleges: Engineering, Liberal Arts, Management, Marine Sciences, Science, and Social Sciences.ResearchDespite its small-medium size, National Sun Yat-sen University has always had outstanding research capabilities. The "Asia Pacific Ocean Research Center" at NSYSU is a world-class Kuroshio research center, it possesses the most advanced marine current power generation technology worldwide. The "Electronic Commerce and Internet Society Research Center" at NSYSU is the only social science research center in Taiwan that has been selected for the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme SSH-NCP.As of 2017, NSYSU had 68 research centers, including the following most important key centers: ;Top level
;Lee Teng-hui Center for Governmental Studies ;Center for Market Research and Public Opinion Polling International ExchangeEvery year there are about 50 international exchange students who come to study, primarily in management and business-focused areas taught in English. They also learn about Taiwanese culture as well as some varieties of Chinese language. The university also has a separate language institute where fee-paying students can study Mandarin and Taiwanese. There also are a similar number of out-going exchange students who travel each year to NSYSU's partner universities such as Malaysia Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman. NSYSU has an active International Student Association. In 2009-2010 well over 250 international students were members of the ISA association at NSYSU, participating in over 20 student events. ISA has five key points: Student Services, Public Services, Social Events, Sports and Scholarship. The 2010-2011 International Student Executive Board will tentatively be elected in the fall of 2010 at NSYSU. The Office of International Affairs at NSYSU traditionally has monitored the election process.The first Taiwanese doctor of Chinese nationality graduated from NSYSU's Institute of China and Asia-Pacific Studies. Notable alumniNSYSU graduates include the President of the Legislative Yuan Su Jia-chyuan, the Mayor of Kaohsiung Chen Chu, the Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives David H. Rowe, and a sizable number of CEOs from the 500 largest companies in the world, such as John Lin, the Vice President of eBay, Distinguished Professor Yuei-An Liou, a well-known space scientist, and chairman of the Financial Supervisory Commission Dr. Huang Tien-mu.;Central official ;Congressman
2019 Information Security IncidentNSYSU broke out a serious information security incident in November 2019. It is suspected that overseas hackers from China used XSS to long-term invade to monitor the email boxes of nearly 100 faculty members of NSYSU's College of Social Sciences and the College of Marine Sciences.Since the main victims are government think tanks, the invasion may harm national security. Affiliated school |