Tunghai University

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Tunghai University 東海大學


Motto	求眞篤信力行 (Truth, Faith, and Deeds)
Established	1955
Type	Private
President	Haydn Chen
Location	Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China
Campus	Suburban,
Mascot	None
Website	www.thu.edu.tw

Tunghai University (zh-tw: 東海大學, Pe̍h-oē-jī: Tang-hái-täi-hãk), or THU, is a Christian, privately founded university that located in Taichung, Taiwan. Tunghai University is famous for its educational history in Taiwan, the humanities, and the Luce Memorial Chapel (designed by noted architect I. M. Pei). Besides, there is a Tunghai farm in the campus.

1 History
- 1.1 List of Presidents
2 Organization
- 2.1 Library
3 Student life
- 3.1 Student societies
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] History

[edit] List of Presidents

Beauson Tseng, 1953-1958
Teh-Yao Wu, 1958-1972
Ming-Shan Hsieh, 1972-1978
Ko-Wang Mei, 1978-1992
Ta-Nien Ruan, 1992-1995
Kang-Pei Wang, 1995-2004
Haydn Chen, 2004-present

[edit] Organization

The Luce Memorial Chapel

Tunghai University is organized into 6 colleges which contain 33 academic departments.

Agriculture College: Animal Science, Food Science, Landscape Architecture, Hospitality Management
Arts College: Chinese Literature, Fine Arts, Foreign Languages, History, Japanese, Music, Philosophy
Engineering College: Architecture, Chemical Engineering, Industrial Design, Industrial Engineering and Enterprise Information
Management College: Accounting, Business Administration, Finance, Information Management, International Business, Statistics
Science College: Life Science, Chemistry, Computer Science, Environmental Science, Mathematics, Physics
Social Science College: Economics, Law, Political Science, Public Administration, Social Work, Sociology

[edit] Library

The library of THU is located at the end of the Campus Mall.

Tunghai's library, with 600,000 volumes, 6,515 corrent serials, 21,523 electronic serials, nonprint formats, and rare books.(Library of THU, Trad. Chinese)

[edit] Student life

Wei-Mei Climbing Wall at THU Campus

The Wei-Mei Climbing Wall completed in 2004, in memory of Wei-Mei Lin, who was the leader of Mountaing Climbing Club, died in mountain accident in 2001. She devoted herself to establish a climbing wall for students at Tunghai University. It is 12 meters high and 9 meters wide.

According to the policy of THU, all freshmen should lodge in dormitories for a year. After one year, students must move out to other lodgings in the areas around THU.

Students of THU usually go to the Tunghai villa, which is located in the west of THU campus, to have food and shopping. Other places near campus they would go for amusement are Tunghai Art Street, Taichung Metropolitan Park and Feng Chia Night Market.