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Established in 1969, Mingdao has dedicated itself to the field of education and has shown its excellence modestly. The basis of the concepts of founding members, Wang Guan-Ping and Wang Fu-Lai, is to cultivate future global citizens with outstanding professional and humanitarian abilities and to unite teachers’ devotion and administrative support. Mingdao has achieved “School of Humanity” by creating an environment of happy learning, healthy growth, and amplitude in education and holistic development. To grant the students a bright future, we have the following measures In some rigorous classes such as English literature and Math, we divide the students into two groups. This helps create a competitive environment in which students learn English. “Right students in the right class.” Advanced English courses have been arranged into the normal class schedule to make English learning more effective. Science education is also highly emphasized, therefore, the creative invention club in our school has won us a good reputation on account of students’ great inventive ability acquired from Science classes. Set up a wireless and cloud campus. Offer a teaching platform to secure a good teaching quality. We offer a well-organized teaching system to support the following 7 major subjects: Chinese, English, Maths, Science, Social Study, Information Technology, and Fine Arts. This system is to match the philosophy of the 6-year education program, to help students adjust themselves to the high school learning environment, and to devote themselves to a promising future. We believe that our students will be more competitive under the trend of globalization. Our philosophy is to teach our students that "their personalities are as important as their brains." This philosophy contributes to the birth of a “Complete Education," which is to teach our students to seek a better quality of life, to help others, to be optimistic, to love and share, and to understand the meaning of dedication. To achieve the goals of “Complete Education" here at Mingdao, for example, the Scouting class provides a program to develop effective character, citizenship, and personal fitness training for youth. Specifically, the Scouting class makes every endeavor to develop our students to have a keen respect for the basic rights of all people and to be prepared to participate in and give leadership to our society. Talent Education is based on a variety of learning styles, including Arts, Sciences, Math, Social Studies, Health and Fitness, Languages, and Technology. In addition, students are also highly encouraged to learn from nature, history, cultures, and the world, so that they will learn how to play their role well in high school life. Humanism, the combination of civilization, modernization, and tradition, is the life spring of Mingdao’s education. Technically, we use multi-media in class and create an environment combining modern technology and teaching materials with the classical and academic atmosphere. At Mingdao, our students are aged from 12 to 18 --- The golden age in personal development. We accept the principal challenge of providing our students with a rich learning environment, which both encourages participation and provides opportunities for student choice. Our experiences have led us to believe that the essential role of our school is to guide students to their choices and to allow them the freedom to make personal decisions about interests. An innovative human management philosophy, a holistic education, a school that develops with the needs of our society, and students that learn happily make up the educational philosophy of Mingdao’s Educational System. Participation in all of these ensures that all students at Mingdao will have access to a promising future. At Mingdao, we believe that “curriculum is everything everything is the curriculum.” With this education philosophy in mind, we devote ourselves to educate our students to learn how to learn and think. We aim to cultivate future global citizens with proper attitudes, open minds, and outstanding academic abilities. View full school

We aim to cultivate a pure mind, a broad heart filled with the desire to purify the world and its people, and professional confidence. Students at MDU inhabit an environment like a manor, a graceful academy. They are not only professional scholars but also people who care about ethnic vitality. They are not only flexible and tactical entrepreneurs but also people who have a taste for art and cultural history. Facing the ever-changing future challenges, students adopt learning methods and abilities that will allow them to refashion themselves as fully competent problem solvers. In terms of life, we hope to cultivate well-versed people in humanism, art, and applied technology. As for aspirations, we hope our students can be taught to use good judgment and wisdom in their thinking. MDU was born to realize the dream of cultivating the next generation's citizens to be professional, practical, broad-minded, intelligent, and determined. Towards this purpose, we have created a quiet and beautiful campus, integrated programs and resources across departments, employed enthusiastic and responsible professors and implemented an academic-industry liaison system. With these features, a superior educational model has been established. In addition to serving the local community's needs, we also serve the needs of the country and the world. Our campus is located in the Southern Changhua Plain, where the primary economic activity is agriculture. Because of the location, we can escape from the noise and crowd typically found in cities. The overall campus design is oriented toward humanity and culture. There are classical architecture styles on our campus, accompanied by green landscapes constructed with materials from the original forest from this area. As for the students' character building, we follow the humanist tradition of MingDao High School, which is unique in the Taiwanese education system and has been proven successful. For example, we adopted the platform, which is generally used only for Chinese Studies in Taiwan for the Lectures of MingDao Chinese Studies in 1993. We also created a humanist atmosphere by using architectural styles and ancient sculptures based on Tang Dynasty originals so that students can immerse themselves in the Chinese tradition. Furthermore, MingDao Literature, the only literature periodical for youth in the country, received the honor of being recognized as a superior periodical by the Government Information Office in Taiwan in the years 1977, 1990, 1992, 1993, and 1995. We even widened the whole country's scope by establishing the MingDao Academic Literary Award to foster numerous literary talents. Qingdao University helps promote environmental reform, takes part in public policy planning, and promotes regional development. For instance, Tianwei Township has developed a sophisticated and professional horticulture industry out of a traditional flower market. Besides, both the one-kilometer long 'Tianwei Highway Garden' and the future Taiwan Suger Farm Resort provide rich educational resources. Therefore, we established the Department of Landscape Architecture to cultivate the talents of landscape design and promote the local industry. For the same reason, we also established the first Department of Post-Modern Agriculture. Moreover, the Departments of Information Communication, Management, and Design and the Graduate Institute of Education can significantly improve the quality of culture and education, which will push the community development forward. We also offer life-long education to achieve the goals. In response to the future workforce demands outlined in the development blueprint for the country, such as the person needs in management and technological expertise, we have established departments fostering talents in management, practical skill, and high-quality leisure. The curriculum design focuses on practical training. The methods include the use of "case study analysis" to increase students' practical experience. We also require our students to gain credit in "research projects" to give them the project management skills necessary to compete in the real world. Also, students will participate in internships in actual local workplaces to enhance their independent analysis abilities, information processing, group participation, and task coordination. The creation of MingDao University's vision and self-positioning was based on integrating the following three things: the mid-to long-term development plan to re-coordinate administrative organs, the University's demonstrated achievements thus far, and the objective external trends and challenges facing the University. Qingdao University's earlier strategy was to be a stand-alone college, founded as the MingDao College of Management in 2001, and the initial college-type was to be an instructional institute. In 2007, the MingDao College of Management was upgraded to a comprehensive university's status by the Ministry of Education and renamed MingDao University. With the new name came a new plan to be an instructional and integrated research-oriented institute. In 2010, in response to the threat of climate change to food, water, and energy security, green, organic, and healthy became the new motto. In 2014, due to the dramatic decrease of birthrates in Taiwan over the previous generation, an issue that will strongly impact college enrollment and create new social issues, a shift in higher education vision was needed. While continuing our current projects and building on existing achievements based on the visions of earlier phases, the new administration, taking international trends, technological advancement, and societal needs into consideration, have cast a bold vision for a new direction. Thus, to become a first-tier institute of higher education, our new goal for MingDao University is to promote instructional excellence, diversity and internationalization, and corporate projects. View full university