Innovation approach and effectiveness:

1. Strengthen teaching and learning quality assurance:

guidance on graduation thresholds, core and employment certification, international and national competitions are emphasized. The links between student performance and resource input, as well as the regular checkup of the achievement of students are followed.

 

2. Implement competition classification:

based on the Competition Classification Index established in 2015, guidance on national, ministerial and international competitions are conducted. Also, the reward system is optimized in order to increase the incentives for students to work harder.  Statistics from 2020 counting up to January 2021, there are 179 international competition winners, exceeding the previous academic year.

 

Annual key performance:

1.In the academic year of 2020, the international competition awards winners are:

●Department of Visual Communication & Design won the 2020 German Red Dot Design Award with 16 awards, obtaining the highest number of Red Dot awards among universities nationwide with 41 awards accumulated over three years.
●Department of Interior Design won 12 awards at the 2020 Golden Lotus International Design Competition for Students.
●Department of Film and TV Design won Best Student Film at the 2020 New York Oniros Film Awards and Best Drama Student Short at Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards (LAIFFA)..
●Department of Visual Communication and Design won the 2020 Korea K-DESIGN AWARD; student work 「Seaweed Islet」 won Silver Award at the 2020 Taiwan International Student Design Competition Visual Design Category.
●Nationwide top receiver of the Ministry of Education 2018 and 2019 “Flying Abroad” series annual subsidy.
●Awarded 325,000 yuan from the Ministry of Education's《2020 Design Strategies of Warring States》 awards for In the academic year of 2020, the number of award-winning students participating in international competitions has exceeded the previous academic year.

2. Cross-field Certification:

Since the academic year of 2016, cross-field certification programs have been planned and inter-college counseling has been used to encourage students to obtain cross-field certificates and improve their employment competitiveness. The ratio of cross-field certificates to the total number of certificates in the academic year of 2016 is 0.5%. The cross-field certification enhancement is one of the major goals of school development since 2018, and in the following academic year, the ratio of cross-field certificates obtained increased to 4.5%.