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Tunghai University International College Fundraising Proposal

August 2017

Vision・Leadership・Innovation

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Organizational Background In 2014 Tunghai University, continuing its long-standing tradition of international education,

launched the International College (IC). Tunghai's International College is the first English-Immersion undergraduate program in Taiwan. The International College is an innovative, liberal arts based institution that strives to redefine how students see and interact with the world. In seeking to achieve this vision, the International College is committed to providing an English immersion environment featuring an interdisciplinary curriculum, experiential learning, and multicultural experiences. The College has two degree-granting programs, namely the International Business Administration (IBA) Program, and the Sustainability Science and Engineering (SSE) Program. The International College collaborates with overseas partners that share THU's commitment to professional studies with a liberal arts foundation. Students are also encouraged to continue seeking learning experiences outside the classroom, through meeting professionals, pursuing internships, and traveling abroad to better engage in the world around them. Providing such an international environment gives us a distinct advantage which ensures our students will become leaders in the globalized 21st Century and, moreover, will grow a strong alumni network in Taiwan and around the world. At the IC, Taiwanese students and their foreign counterparts are brought together under an English-based learning and living environment. Through in-class lectures, discussions, presentations, and overseas studies, our students can experience different cultures and study global issues with classmates from around the world.

The purpose of this proposal is to highlight and reinforce the International College’s existing capabilities, strengthen its global network, and support the following programs which make THU IC unique: Mentors Program, Faculty Enhancement Program, Scholarship Program, and Facility Improvement Project.

The International College will continue to make major contributions to the educational infrastructure of Tunghai University. IC’s foundational purpose is to use the liberal arts educational approach to facilitate learning in different areas of concentration. This goal allows us to build our programs on the liberal arts approach with different concentrations – the only of its kind in Taiwan’s international education field. New programs are to be launched in the coming years as the International College continues to be an integral part of the future of Tunghai University.

Goals and Objectives The missions of the International College are to facilitate Tunghai’s strategic plan to enhance

students’ global mobility – bridging ambitious domestic students to study abroad in some capacity, and attracting foreign students who value the quality of Taiwan’s higher education.

To achieve these missions, we propose the following Programs:

1. Mentors Program: The most unique feature of the International College is the Mentors Program. Each incoming class has an American mentor who helps students make the transition from high school to independent learners. They help students with personal and academic problems, as well as facilitate communication between teachers, students, and parents through a monthly newsletter. They also host cultural activities and help students with their international exchange and college applications. Simply, they ensure that students are off to a good start on the road to success. Supporting International College’s Mentors Program provides a sustained financial resource critical to expand the impact of the Mentors Program. The goal of the Program is to support at least six (6), and up to eight (8) mentors every year for the International College in the next five years.

2. Faculty Enhancement Program: This Program aims to provide a stable source of funding for innovative initiatives in teaching and research needed for maintaining the quality of education in the International College. Finding qualified teachers to offer courses for the International College has been a major challenge since the inception of College in 2014. With very limited human resource in the International College, we have worked hard to create a vibrant environment with quality students to attract faculty members from both Tunghai and other institutions to teach as part-time instructors, for teaching both our signature (and mandatory) “Global Leadership” (GL) lecture series and the concentration courses. Supporting this Program will allow us to offer competitive compensation to invite quality teachers, and to set up workshops that help faculty members become more adept at English-teaching. The goals are to build a core GL faculty consisting of at least five (5) full-time and part-time faculty members, and to invite at least five (5) quality part-time teachers to offer courses every semester.

With IC’s pillar program being the liberal-arts based Global Leadership lecture series, the International College aims to recruit internationally renowned scholars to anchor our program and make life-long impacts to our students. A sponsored professorship will allow for a better chance to recruit top professors internationally.

The Program also allows the IC to extend its “Mini-mester” and summer teaching programs. The “Mini-mester” is essentially an academic sprint to the end of the year where students are pushed to exceed their own expectations by taking specially taught intensive courses for the last month of the Spring semester. The IC and partner American schools coordinate to add classes open to students of the partnering university(s). The Mini-mester provides a unique chance for the students from different parts of the world to meet new people, ideas, and opinions. International students who join the Mini-mester are given an amazing chance to explore a country most do not know exist, ultimately increasing Taiwan’s presence in the world. In turn, our domestic students are exposed to leading academic programs from across the world, broadening their perspective while also learning soft skills such as communication and teamwork. The goal is to consistently offer 3 to 4 Mini-mester courses offered by the invited American partner universities.

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3. Scholarship Program: Scholarships are always a wonderful way to give back and invest long-term in future talents, whether it be need-based or merit-based. Given that the International College stresses experiential learning and global vision in its curricular design, our Scholarship Committee focuses its fundraising endeavors on the following types of scholarships:

• Study Abroad Scholarships: A need-based scholarship to support students to study abroad through any of the study-abroad pathways recognized by the International College. The goal is to present opportunities for every student in the International College to have a study-abroad experience before graduation.

• Academic Scholarships: A merit-based scholarship to recognize the academic performance of both domestic and foreign students in the International College.

• Intern/Research Scholarships: Both need-based and merit-based scholarship to support students to complete their compulsory internship or research requirements to graduate.

4. Facility Improvement Project: This Project aims to include a short-term and a long-term goal. The short-term goal is to improve IC’s teaching facility by renovating a multi-functional classroom equipped with state-of-the-art display technology and mobile technology – a vital part of teaching and learning environment in today’s university. The long-term goal is to initiate a university-wide International House (I-House), which can serve as a center of on-campus housing for students and mentors, and as a forum for students to organize student clubs and international events and to exchange ideas and dialogue and facilitate cross-cultural learning opportunities.

Management of Programs and Funds Monitoring

Funds monitoring: The donation will follow the Taiwan government fundraising policies and the Tunghai university accounting procedures and regulation, 1.) Provide receipt 2.) Announce donations 3.) Follow allocation of donations.

Program monitoring: The schedule and progress checkpoints of the four proposed Programs are summarized in Table 1. The chart gives a glimpse how we track the progress of each Program, such as the critical features and the timeline of the Programs that we will monitor.

Evaluation

The impact of the Programs will be evaluated by multiple ways, including: • Feedback report through end-of-year student and faculty surveys; • Interview with leaders of student clubs; • Assessment report by International College’s advisory board meeting;

As widely understood, short-term impact of investment in education is difficult to assess accurately, especially without having the first IC graduating class until the completion of Academic Year 2018. Nevertheless, given that the quality of IC’s program, the faculty and staff, and the students are inherently intertwined, the key indicators on the impact of the proposed Programs can be observed through all three fronts; namely,

Program-wise: • Number of students participating study-abroad programs and their self-assessed learning

experience. • Number and quality of Mini-mester courses based on the number and the performance of the

student enrolled in those courses. • Learning and leadership training opportunities in student activities. • Number of IC’s partnering universities internationally.

Faculty-wise: • Number of core faculty members. • Number of part-time teachers and adjunct professors from partnering departments. • Number of elective courses offered by the IC with positive response from students. • Number and activities organized by mentors.

Student-wise: • Number and diversity of international students. • Number of applicants and acceptance rate. • Number of non-IC students minored in IC’s programs or enrolled in IC’s courses.

Reporting

Project reporting includes periodic documentation of our progress. Reports will include financial updates, implementation status reports, and periodic evaluations. Several forms of publications will serve as a communication avenue with contributors and friends of the International College.

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• Newsletter (monthly): The International College has published monthly newsletters (in English) during the school year over the past two years, for the purpose of sharing student activities and program updates. These newsletters represent an important channel to communicate with parents and partner universities.

In addition to the newsletter, our staff is prepared to add the following publications:

• IC Magazine (biannually): The Magazine aims to promote our program to domestic and international students who are motivated to experience English-immersive, experiential learning programs. The Magazine will include sections devoted to highlighting program development, recognizing student curricular and extra-curricular achievements, profiling IC donors, contributors, and faculty members.

• Annual Report (yearly): The Annual Report aims to highlight IC’s milestone events during the year, and gives key statistics (faculty and student compositions, achievements, feedback and assessment), financial status, and future outlooks.

Sustainability

This fundraising project aims for a five-year life cycle, by which time all IC’s GL program and concentration programs should have been either full-fledged or developed. The role of the International College spearheading internationalization of Tunghai’s education relies on the success of our GL program, mentor program, and alignment with other Colleges in Tunghai University to maintain the quality of the degree-conferring concentration programs. In additional to the existing IBA and SSE programs, the International College looks to launch new programs such as Global Affair Studies and Creative Arts and Design, as delineated in the figure below.

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Gifts directed to our proposed Programs will solidify the quality and standing of the International College to be an important part of Tunghai’s future. Other than these gifts, the International College intends to run revenue-generating activities to sustain the growing programs stated above. Preliminary plans may include English-taught programs such as:

Fee-based, faculty-led study-abroad camp. The camp will combine intensive English training courses taught by American mentors, followed by a faculty-led short summer program in the United States.

Fee-based certified professional training workshops. The workshop will invite experienced professionals from the U.S. or Europe to train seed teachers in field of expertise unfamiliar in Taiwan.

Schedule and Progress monitoring of Programs

Semester Fall Semester Spring Semester

Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May June July ‘18 ‘19 ‘20 ‘21 Mentors Program

Announcement

Recruitment & Interview

Performance Assessment

Scholarship Program

Announcement

Review Progress

Recipient Notification

Faculty Enhancement Program

Workshops

Mini-mester Guest Lecturers Recruitment

Sponsored Professorship Recruitm’t & Presentation

Facility Improvement Project

Teaching Facility Reshape

International House Remodeling

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Methods of Giving There may be two types of scholarship funds with Tunghai University’s:

An endowed scholarship fund, which requires (a minimum of NT$1,500,000 or US$50,000): An endowed fund buys into the University endowment. An endowed fund is invested in perpetuity, and only the interest from the fund is to be used for scholarship awards. Interest earned from endowed funds are distributed quarterly to corresponding expendable scholarship funds. Donations made to an endowed fund provide a long-term impact, as only interest from the fund may be awarded to qualifying students.

An expendable scholarship fund (a minimum of NT$30,000 or US$1,000): An expendable fund does not buy into the University endowment. Donations to an expendable fund provide short-term impact, as the entire fund may be awarded immediately to qualifying students.

You may donate online at this link: https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/unitedboard

Remember to indicate ‘Tunghai University’ under Institution (optional), and ‘International College’

under Other (optional).

• Mail donation to: 475 Riverside Drive, Suite 1221, New York, NY10115 U.S.A.

• TEL: 212-870-3121 • Website: http://www.unitedboard.org

• a one-time gift with no additional formal commitment (the most common form of giving). • a pledge (formal commitment) to make donation(s) over a scheduled period of time. • a Names Scholarship, faculty, mentor, facility sponsorships are available.

※ Contact information: Mrs. Ying-yi Ho / E-mail: ic@thu.edu.tw / Phone: +886-4-2359-8941

For the US tax deductions, make the check payable to the “United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia” and Earmark the donation to the Tunghai University International College

United Board for Christian Higher

Education in Asia (UB)

Budget and Fundraising Target

The International College targets the following to not only sustain the excellency of our program and students, but also to make impacts to the higher education offered in Tunghai University.

NEED Item Target

Mentors Program NT$350,000* 6 mentors

Subtotal NT$2,100,000

(US$70,000 per year)

Scholarship Program

Need-base scholarship N$T100,000* 12 students

Merit-base scholarship NT$10,000* 80 students

Study-abroad scholarship NT$500,000

Subtotal NT$2,500,000

(US$83,300 per year)

Faculty Enhancement Program

Sponsored professorship

Mini-mester guest lecturers

Subtotal

NT$1,000,000

NT$450,000

NT$1,450,000

(US$48,300 per year)

Facility Improvement Project NT$6,000,000

Teaching facility & I-House

(US$200,000 total)

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VI. Programs Outlook The College has grown every year in student size and is now welcoming more than 80 incoming

domestic students between the two existing academic programs, and more than 20 international students in 2017. Along with the Global Leadership lecture series, both IBA and SSE have established themselves as first-of-its-kind programs, and have attracted quality students across the board. A third Program, concentrating on global affairs and public policy, is now fully under preparation.

The growing popularity of the International College means that we are heading in the right direction. The faculty and staff have worked hard to recruit good students and have promoted quality programs to the students. There is clearly a good vibe within the International College among faculty and staff members, and our Programs have been receiving positive feedbacks from parents and high school communities.

The International College continues to identify opportunity to strengthen our core faculty by recruiting talented and passionate members who enjoy interacting with students. We have also been making concerted efforts in connecting with the existing faculty members in Tunghai University. After all, we strongly value the support and solidarity displayed from within the Tunghai community, and your gifts are instrumental to the success of the International College.

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