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(Above: campus scenes or activities) ■ Distinctive University Offices
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The center's goals are to integrate teaching resources for effective education usages and to develop the faculty members' research and teaching abilities. The first goal is accomplished by organizing hierarchical faculty mentoring groups and promoting various experience exchange activities. And the second goal is implemented, for example, by integrating various software on the Internet as a Digital Resource Sharing Station which can be reached and utilized conveniently from webpages anywhere and anytime. | ||
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This center helps students in many aspects, by offering consulting and assistance about course taking, learning skills, campus living, student club participation, job seeking, health promotion, and so on. It creates many resources, for example, like a so-called Digital Learning Website in which many courseware and videotapes are available on the Internet for students to preview before class or review after class. | ||
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The mission of the center is to train students to be leaders with global views. The core values for the students to learn include participation, team-working, innovation, service, and endeavor. The course program offered by the center include: Toastmasters English speech training; intensive training in English writing and reading; negotiation skill training; enhanced knowledge of politics, economy, history, & international relationship; and creative research projects. | ||
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The purpose is to train students, during their university time, to cultivate productive daily living habits and to do their best in cooperation with others. It is hoped that in the future they will make judicious use of their skills gained to better serve the society. Service studies characteristics includes: collaboration, reciprocity, diversity, learning, social justice focus. All first-year students must spend half an hour a day, three days a week to engage in basic maintenance of the campus. | ||
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The Language center aims to establish an English-only environment for students to speak, read, write as well as listen to English, thereby not only improving the students' oral skills but also writing and listening skills. Various English level examination information such as TOEFL, GEPT, GRE and IELT are available at the center and have been carefully established to facilitate maximum learning. | ||
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Parent Greeting Phone-Calling Center | |
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The center was set up uniquely by Asia University for students to greet parents by free phone calls offered by the center. This activity aims to promote the Chinese merits of greeting one's parents in each day's morning and evening, advocated by ancient Chinese people. | ||
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The station on the university webpage was established to broadcast various scheduled campus programs, including video-taped invited speeches, important panel discussions, lectures of important courses, introduction to Asia University, and so on. It is a good tool for students and faculty members to absorb new knowledge and information on the web. | ||
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The center, located in the library, aims to exhibit artworks of faculty members and invited artists for the purpose of promoting the students' capability of art appreciation and creativity. People from the neighboring community are also welcome. | ||
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Distance-Learning and Digital Teaching Material Development Center |
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The center aims mainly to assist the faculty members to offer synchronous and asynchronous distance-learning courses as well as to prepare digital courseware for offering such courses. Offering of inter-university and international distance-learning courses are also emphasized. Provision and maintenance of related software and hardware are two other major duties of the center. |
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The center is set up for the purpose to promote academic exchange and relationships with universities around the world. We have more than thirty of world-class partner institutions now, offering a range of international cooperation activities. The center helps recruiting of international students, coordinating negotiations to establish student exchange programs, Memoranda of Understanding, and other partnership agreements, as well as promoting international student activities in the campus. |
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The center devotes itself to the development of teaching and research of physical and spiritual disciplines. It arranges courses of both basic and advance general education curriculum, including the aspects of healthcare, management, information, and holistic education. In addition, for the purpose of accomplishing perfect holistic education, courses in Chinese, English, law, music, art and applied science areas are offered to build up the students' healthy outlook on life. |