Summary and Highlights of the First Phase’s Goals and Achievements

The key points for the Higher Education Sprout Project in the first phase involve becoming a RICH University. With regard to “innovative teaching, digital empowerment, and career navigation,” the University has been promoting innovation in “interdisciplinary thinking,” the localization of “digital application,” and deepening of “humanitarian care,” while continuing to improve the cultivation of “interdisciplinary thinking in professional abilities, the digital application of innovative creativity, and humanitarian care for the public.”

Highlight 1: To introduce transformative innovative teaching methods; Capstone courses solidify professionalism

• Based on the Key Performance Indicators, the University has promoted six types of course-teaching innovation to encourage teachers to gradually transform their teaching methods. Students will participate in contests under the instruction of teachers working in the industry with innovative teaching, so courses contain rich and diversified content. Since 2010, courses under innovative teaching have increased from 40 to about 300 each semester. Capstone courses are combined with courses and off-campus contests, and our students have won numerous awards; in 2021, the instructor of Financial Management (Teaching Innovation) took all students on the course to five national contests, the instructor of Insurance Practice (Innovative Entrepreneurship) took all students on the course to participate in two national contests, and the instructor of Accounting Studies in the Accounting News & Reports and Project Research (PBL) course took all students on the course to six national contests. All students performed well in these contests.
• Students' work in the College of Innovative Design and Management won the 2020 Red Dot Award, and was nominated in the 2020 Internationalen Filmfestspiele Berlin, the 2020 PRISMA Awards, the 2022 Red Dot Awards, and the 2022 Golden Pin Design Awards, demonstrating that the university’s students are competitive in both theory and practice.

Highlight 2: To ensure information literacy education and promote competitiveness by combining professional knowledge

• Freshmen are required to take the Logical Thinking and Programming course. The proportion of students taking programming courses has risen to 61.92%. Through self-learning with online teaching videos, 1,720 students acquired MTA international licenses in 2021.
• Junior college students of the Department of Information Management were invited to be members of the 2022 EC-COUNCIL ECIH global examination committee.

Highlight 3: Employment-oriented assistance being so successful that students find employment right after graduating from the University

• Between 2018 and 2022, 425 students became qualified bookkeepers; 91 students passed senior and junior examinations; 27 became qualified accountants (one of them became a Certified Public Account in 2021); 254 became qualified Primary Certified Intangible Asset Valuators; 14 became Secondary Certified Intangible Asset Valuators; and 15 became qualified Mobile Application Developers. Between 2020 and 2022, 345 students became qualified  JCCP and ERP Planners, while 60 acquired their Combating Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism license. In 2022, nine Senior Securities Specialists, 35 Customer Relationship Management Planners, 32 Service Managers, 16 Integrated Marketing Managers, 28 Consumer Behavior Analysts, and one person with a CEM certificate graduated from the University.

Highlight 4: Digital technology supports teaching and learning, and reinforces interdisciplinary learning and cross-department cooperation

• We have enhanced teaching tools and quality, and constructed interdisciplinary learning “labs” so instructors can teach more flexibly.
• Our students have won numerous awards in off-campus contests under cross-department cooperation. For example, students of the Department of Accounting Information and the Department of Information Management won the 2018 Fintech Robot Making Contest championship, and students of the Check Chick group of the Department of Commercial Management and Design won second place in the E. Sun Bank Financial Technology Contest, and placed 23^rd in the International ICT Innovative Services Awards. In 2019, they even established a startup company and cooperated with several banks (Shin Kong Bank, KGI Bank). Students of the Quants.ai group of the Department of Commercial Management and Design won the Golden Award at the 2017 Fintech Forum and Ideas Show. In 2018, the group established a startup company and subsequently cooperated with securities firms and financial holdings companies to expand the value of their products.
• Through cross-department cooperation (the Department of Finance and Department of International Business), students won the 2022 Taiwan Business Bank Fintech Creativity Contest championship.
• Since 2019, the University has worked with LINE in the LINE Chabot Design Contest to cultivate innovative thinking and practice. The University’s students won second place in both 2020 and 2022.
• Through industry-academic cooperation, the University has reduced the gap between theory and practice, and cultivates professionals in cross-border e-commerce. Students of the University won first and third places in the 5^th Taipei City Cross-Border E-Commerce Industry-Academy Cooperation Project Online Shop Transaction Group.

Highlight 5: Students have excellent performance in off-campus internships and fulfill the university’s social responsibilities

• Students’ employment retention rate has risen to 81.57% after internships end at a financial facility. Furthermore, the University continues to promote its students for deepening their learning in trade negotiation at overseas government offices and large enterprises and strengthen the positive impact of internships in Taiwan’s public administrations and large enterprises.
• Through the cooperation agreement with the Foundation for Yunus Social Business Taiwan, the University established the 9^th Yunus Social Business Centre, officially becoming the 72^nd Yunus Social Business Centre in the world.
• The National Taipei University of Business in Remote Areas Volunteer Group won the Merit Award of the 2021 ASUS Foundation i-Taiwan Digital Volunteer Project.