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Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU)[2] Council of Higher Education (ICHE)[3] Association of Christian Universities and Colleges in Asia (ACUCA)[4] The United Board[5] Fulbright Taiwan[6] Alliance of Asian Liberal Arts Universities (AALAU)[7] Princeton in Asia (PIA)[8]
1952 February William P. Fenn, Secretary General of the UBCHEA, travelled to Taiwan to discuss with educational and religious leaders on the conditions for establishing the university. Fenn recommended that the university should not be a replica of any church university in mainland China. He suggested the faculty and students should all be Christians, work full-time and live on campus.[15]
1953 Tunghai University was established in Dadu Mountain, Xitun District, Taichung City. On November 11, former U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon presided over the groundbreaking ceremony of Tunghai University. He delivered a speech to symbolize the educational cooperation and enhance military and economic exchanges between Taiwan and the U.S. After that, Ieoh Ming Pe, Chen Chi -Kwan, and Chang Chao-kang were invited to design and build the campus.[15]
1955 The first class of new students was admitted, with Beauson Tseng as the first president. In the beginning, there were only two colleges, the College of Arts and the College of Science, with 200 students. Under the College of Arts, there were the Departments of History, Departments of Chinese Literature, and Departments of Foreign Language and Literature. The founding ceremony was held on November 2, which became the university's anniversary.[15]
1958 The College of Engineering was established.
1963 The Luce Chapel was completed.
1972 The enrollment was expanded, and a night school was established.
1973 Tunghai Experimental Farm was established.
1976 The College of Business (now the College of Management) was established.
1980 The College of Agriculture and the College of Law (now the College of Social Sciences) were established.
2005 Construction of the second campus began.
2007 the College of Fine Arts and Creative Design was established. All departments of the College of Management were relocated to the second campus.
2008 Taiwan's first liberal arts education learning community, Poya College, officially began accepting students.
2009 The College of Law was established. 2010- The student dormitories on the second campus were completed. The Dairy Shop, supermarket, and Women's Club were renovated.
2014 The international business administration program was established in the International College.
2017 Master program of performing and creative arts, MPCA, was launched. The Cultural Heritage Department of Taichung City made the Luce Chapel and Priest Bell Tower city monuments.
2018 Joined Amazon.com AWS to create the first Cloud Innovation School in Taiwan.[16]
2019 AI Center was established. The Ministry of Culture announced the upgrading of the Luce Chapel to a national monument.[17]
Tunghai has nine colleges: College of Science, College of Arts, College of Management, College of Social Sciences, College of Engineering, College of Agriculture, College of Law, College of Fine Arts and Creative Design, and International College, 34 departments and 35 master's programs (one independent master's program and 13 in-service master's programs) and 14 PhD programs.[15]
In 2014, the university established its English-taught International College,[18] offering three bachelor's degree programs: international business administration (IBA), sustainability science and engineering (SSE), and an interdisciplinary program.
In 2020, the International College began accepting international students who would like to learn Chinese without declaring a major in the first two years. In their junior and senior year, students can declare a major in either programs within the International College or other colleges at Tunghai University.
The university puts emphasis on liberal education.[19] The center offers courses in the fields of natural sciences, humanities, social sciences, and Western classics.
The Tunghai University Main Library is located at the end of the Campus Mall. Library holdings include, approximately, 600,000 volumes, 6,515 current serials, 21,523 electronic serials, nonprint formats, and rare books.[20]
Tunghai University is ranked in third place among all the universities in Taiwan, and first among private universities, in Times Higher Education's University Impact Rankings, 2020, which assesses universities against the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).[25]
In the 2020 Taiwan Corporate Sustainability Award (TCSA), Tunghai University scored high in the categories of Sustainability Model University.[26]
Tunghai also won USR's Best Sustainability Project Awards. Tunghai University and National Taiwan University both won Golden class honors.[27]
The Luce Chapel is a Christian chapel at Tunghai University in Taichung, Taiwan. Henry R. Luce, the founder of Time Magazine and Life Magazine, funded its construction to commemorate his father, Henry W. Luce. It is the work of Taiwanese architect Chen Chi-Kwan and Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei. It is a landmark of Tunghai University and Taichung City. On April 25, 2019, it was declared a national monument by the Ministry of Culture.[29]
Built in 1966, the Priest Bell Tower is located in front of the entrance of the Luce Memorial Chapel in Tunghai University. In 2017, the Taichung City Cultural Assets Office registered it as a municipal monument. The Bell Tower is named in honor of Elsie Priest, who was invited to Taiwan by the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia (UBCHEA) in early 1955 to assist Tunghai University as the chief accounting officer and general secretary. Priest made many contributions to the university in its early years.[30]
The farm is the largest farm for education and student internships in the country. Covering 50 hectares (120 acres), there are about 200 dairy cows on the farm, which produces Tunghai's dairy products, including milk and ice cream.[31]
Tunghai Experimental Farm
Wenli Boulevard (Arts and Science Boulevard)[edit]
With the red bricks and gray tiles of colleges on both sides and the dense shade of the trees, Wenli Boulevard serves as the main line of movement between the colleges.
^"Tunghai Totems (in Chinese)". Tunghai U. Retrieved November 6, 2014. 杭氏見該地適在臺灣海峽的東側，傾向用「海東」兩字，經凌純聲先生建議「東海」一名更佳，乃告決定。(Transl.: Mr. Hang, seeing the site on the east side of the Taiwan Strait, proposed the name "Haitung" ("east of the sea"). Mr. Ling proposed that "Tunghai" ("east sea") would sound better, and it was decided.)
