Established in 1990. Renamed in 1993, 1997. Highly acclaimed by local communities and worldwide, Huafan has a strong commitment to applying knowledge in a campus environment, research, teaching, and services to society.
Education of Enlightenment and Virtue Education as Priority, The Ven. Hiu Wan, founder of Huafan, advocated "Education of Enlightenment" as our ideal. She also proposed "Integration of Humanities and Technology with Equal Emphasis on Mutual Enrichment of Compassion and Wisdom" as our educational guidelines. These involve self-awakening, self-development, and rational thinking based on Chinese ethics and Buddhist compassion.
Human is proud to have received "Teaching Excellence" awards from the Ministry of Education. Since 2006, for four consecutive academic years, Huafan is awarded a total of NT$190,485,000. Among the 71 universities (not including Two-year and Four-year Institutes of Technology) in Taiwan, Huafan is one of the nineteen universities honored by MOE as an excellent higher education model. As Huafan regards students as the core component of a university, our small-size classroom has significantly impacted the practice of excellence in teaching. Together with varieties kinds of research activities and a series of consultation workshops, Huafan has become a representative school for teaching excellence. Under the auspicious of MOE's Teaching Excellence Project, Huafan established a "Teaching Innovation and Development Center" in 2006, devoting to developing and designing a wide variety of innovative teaching activities to enrich our academic quality further and to build a more positive attitude in learning.
To enrich students' learning and life, Huafan has adopted a mentor system and peer study groups as two educational strategies. For making the classroom an encouraging learning environment, students will autonomously seek help from each other. On the one hand, those who are excellent in certain subjects can lead their peers for further discussions and experiments. As a result, students learn to develop higher and healthier EQ while incorporating their specialties to consolidate strong interpersonal relationships among peers. In 2007, Huafan established the "Student Career and Life Development Center" and "Student Learning Resource Center," structured initially been from the earlier student affairs consultation system. Together with our full-time faculty mentor system, Huafan endeavors to provide advice and assistance to support students' academic learning, personality cultivation, and career planning.
Human endeavors to concentrate resources to promote featured research forums. Hiu Wan Studies. Fruitful cooperation and integration of research resources among departments demonstrate that the featured researches at Huafan present distinguished strengths. These effectively show contributions in academic publications, research project funding, or artistic exhibitions and performances.
According to the 2010 report of Taiwanese ESI dissertation statistics, Engineering at Huafan is ranked one of the top universities, whose worldwide dissertation publications have been quoted as 1 percent of the universities. To encourage students to work on innovative research, each department and graduate institute at Huafan has its independent seminal research project or thematically designed seminars. Prompted by a performance-based improvement plan, Huafan hopes students will fully participate in their directing professors' research fields. The establishment of the student innovation prize aims to train students' dexterity while also enhancing their professional knowledge.
There are separate dormitories for male and female students, providing housing for nearly 1000 students. First-year students (except those who reside in Shihding, Shenkeng, and Wenshan District) are all eligible to apply for dormitories. Human dorms are well-equipped with commercial dryers, refrigerators, food processors and kitchenware, a public computer station, a commercial xerox machine, and sports equipment. In the student recreation lounge, there are television and daily newspapers. Each room is fully furnished with a telephone, Internet connection, air-conditioner, and heater, along with other living facilities. First aid, ambulance, and emergency alarm and evacuation system are in operation.
