Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/01/05
By: Phoenix Hsu and Ko Lin)
Taipei, Jan. 5 (CNA) Kuan Chung-ming (管中閔), former minister of the National
Kuan Chung-ming (管中閔/CNA file photo)
Development Council (NDC), has been elected Friday as the new president of National Taiwan University (NTU), one of Taiwan’s most prestigious institutes of higher education.
The ballot was casted by members of the school’s Presidential Search Committee, which currently consists of 21 members, according to committee spokesman Yuan Hsiao-wei (袁孝維).
Kuan beat four other candidates, including Chou Mei-yin (周美吟), director of the Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, and Chang Ching-ray (張慶瑞), vice president of NTU’s Administrative Affairs who is also a distinguished professor of the school’s Department of Physics.
The other two candidates were Chen Ming-hsien (陳銘憲), distinguished professor of NTU’s Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia (GINM), and Chen Jo-shui (陳弱水), professor of the school’s Department of History. [FULL STORY]