Asia University (AU) held the “2016 Parent-Teacher Symposium for New Students” on March 12. The Parent-Teacher Symposium have attracted a total of 400 students and parents to attend. AU President Jing-Pha Tsai pointed out that AU keeps fostering excellence of school running and has great achievements in recent years.

The Dean of College of Humanities & Social Sciences, Ying-Huei Chen and the Director of Learning & Career Development Center, Fang-Hua Hsiao, presented AU’s excellent performances in the aspects of teaching, research, knowledge transfer, and international outlook. “It’s a feature of AU to emphasize students’ learning effects, allow in-school job training, as well as guarantee of after-school employment,” said President Tsai.

President Tsai also mentioned that heading to the 15th year of school establishment, AU has been evaluated to be one of the teaching excellence universities by the Ministry of Education (MOE) for 11 straight years, and that the famous UK Times Higher Education (THE) World Ranking has reported the top-100 universities in Asia every year; and Asia University, being 15 years old only, is in the lists of both 2014 and 2015. In addition, AU has been ranked by UK THE reports in recent three years to be in lists of three differently-evaluated top universities in the world, becoming a university with “four top-100’s” honors. “The efforts and the progress made by AU are remarkable,” said President Tsai.

Furthermore, evaluated by the Cheers Magazine as a rising new star among the private universities, AU is ranked within the first five for the 2nd time in the list of the top 20 best school-running universities in Taiwan. The magazine mentioned that AU always puts students in first considerations in designing teaching and research policies, conducting aesthetics education, promoting the spirit of volunteering, and creating the so-called “four-creativeness campus.” “Through offers of advisors for the student classes and careers, as well as mentors to take care of the students’ lives and studies, AU expects to cultivates students with broad minds of virtue, humanity, and art, reported the magazine.

The Dean of College of Humanities & Social Sciences, Ying-Huei Chen, emphasized in the symposium that AU aims to become an international university, and provides a total of seven ways for students to promote their international visions, namely, studying abroad, participating in academic exchanges, working as interns, joining volunteer programs, publishing papers in conferences, and taking part in international invention or design contests. “The key factors to your success is language ability, professional ability, and communication ability,” mentioned Chen to the students and the parents in the symposium, “and in addition, AU provides scholarships for new students and offers many language classes for English learning and tests (like TOEFL, TOEIC, …, etc.).

The Director of Learning & Career Development Center, Fang-Hua Hsiao, said “AU makes great efforts to help students to promote their professional capabilities so as to seek good jobs after graduation, and so has cooperated with 103 companies, including the Pou Chen Group, the Giant Group, and the Wowprime Group, to offer interim opportunities and guarantee employments of the students after graduation.” The efforts include providing occupational exploration opportunities, offering comprehensive coaching and mentoring, conducting professional capability cultivation, giving helps to find interim opportunities in famous companies, assisting job matching between academia and industry, etc.

In this year of 2016, a total of 299 students coming from high-school recommendations have been admitted to enter Asia University after a qualification evaluation process. Through advisors for the student classes and careers, and mentors to take care of lives and studies of the students, AU expects to cultivate students with spirits pf virtue, humanity, and art. Each of the admitted students got from the AU president a book entitled “Big Data” as well a ticket for visiting the Asia Museum of Modern Art owned by AU.