NCUE provides students with sexual and reproductive healthcare services and plans a series of gender equality education activities every school year. The themes include emotional education, sexual bullying prevention, sex education, and the recognition of multiple genders. The events take the form of lectures, workshops, and film viewing. Through these activities, students are led to explore the depth and breadth of sex-related issues, and NCUE guides students to ponder human–self interaction, break gender stereotypes, and build a friendly campus environment. To integrate resources related to sex education and AIDS prevention education, prevent students from contracting HIV, and increase the understanding of campus sex education and AIDS prevention among faculty and students, NCUE actively promotes safe sex and sex education as healthcare services.

1. NCUE provides free safe sex and sexual health education for faculty and students:

(1) Advocacy of safe sex.

(2) Promote the correct use of condoms.

(3) Set up a free condom access and health education zone.

(4) Set up a special telephone line to provide students with sexual health and reproductive health consulting services.

(5) Provide nursing women with access to breastfeeding rooms and health education.

(6) Carry out maternal protection plan and provide health consulting services.

2. NCUE plans a series of gender equality education activities every school year. The themes include emotional education, sexual bullying prevention, sex education, and the recognition of multiple genders. The events take the form of lectures, workshops, and film viewing. Through these activities, students are led to explore the depth and breadth of sex-related issues. NCUE guides students to ponder human–self interaction, break gender stereotypes, and build a friendly campus environment.

(1) In the second semester of the 2022-2023 academic year, lecture events were organized to explore topics such as menstrual poverty, menstrual stigma, and menstrual leave. These events aimed to enhance students' understanding of diverse menstrual products and the significance of menstrual equity. The discussions extended to the importance of sex in life, leading to self-exploration and understanding of sexuality. The concept of "everyone has the right to enjoy sex comfortably" was emphasized. The events were held at the Jinde and Baoshan campuses under the themes "Moon Landing Project: Menstruation Education Regardless of Gender" and "Grown-Up Project: Body 'Sexual' Autonomy and the Thoughts of the Sex Toy," with a total of 2 sessions, as illustrated in Figures 1-2.

Figure 1: Event Photo (Jinde Campus Session)

Figure 2: Event Photo (Baoshan Campus Session)

(2) In the first semester of the 2023-2024 academic year, gender equality education promotional activities were conducted. The Jinde campus session featured presentations based on medical expertise, empirical research, and outpatient experience, aimed at helping students understand the diversity of gender and explore the often less discussed topic of sexual intimacy. The Baoshan campus session used film appreciation and interactive discussions to help participants reflect on themes of encounters, frustrations, and separations in their interpersonal and intimate relationships. Through sharing personal stories among members, the session enhanced mutual understanding and broadened life experiences. A total of 2 sessions were held, as illustrated in Figure 3.

Figure 3: Event Photo (Jinde Campus Session)

3. NCUE educates its students in developing a healthy and safe attitude towards sex, as well as having safe sex. They are taught how to prevent unintended pregnancy, while teachers, students, and parents are helped to accept and care for pregnant students and those who are raising kids, so as to actively protect the right to education of pregnant students and those who are raising children.

4. We provide on-campus services including a “Free Dual-Function Mobile Health Unit -Breast Cancer and Cervical Cancer Screening” and “Paid Cervical Vaccine Injections” to enhance the health protection of faculty, staff, and students.

5. In conjunction with World AIDS Day, the university provides diversified HIV screening services and channels, and organizes health lectures in order to achieve the goal of: "prevention is better than cure."

6. NCUE actively cares for the health of pregnant employees. For female workers who are pregnant or have given birth within the past year, we implement hazard assessment, control, and graded management measures. On-site health services are provided by occupational medicine physicians who conduct individual consultations and provide recommendations for hazard prevention. Female employees who are pregnant or have given birth within the past year are required to complete the "Maternal Health Protection Workplace Environment and Operational Hazard Assessment Form" for evaluation.

7. NCUE has set up condom vending machines in student dormitories, and on-campus self-testing reagent service machines in the student activity center, providing health education on the use of condoms to remind the youth about the prevention of STDs and safe HIV self-testing.

8. NCUE allows employees who have served for 6 months to apply for childcare leave without pay before each child reaches 3 years old. The period is until the child reaches 3 years old, but not more than 2 years, in order to provide good care for newborns and infants. In addition, Changhua Private Kindergarten Affiliated to the University Co-operative Limited of the National Changhua University of Education provides childcare services for preschool children aged 2 years and above, so as to assist teachers, staff, and students on childcare.

(1) The statistics of parental leave applications by faculty and staff over the past two years are shown in Table 1.

Table 1: Statistics of Parental Leave Applications by Faculty and Staff Over the Past Two Years

(2) The student enrollment statistics for the cooperative kindergarten are shown in Table 2.

Table 2: Enrollment Statistics for the Cooperative Kindergarten Over the Past Two Years

(3) Highlights of happy learning at the Faculty and Staff Cooperative Kindergarten, as shown in Figures 4-8.

   
Figure 4: Kindergarten Graduation Ceremony

Figure 5: Kindergarten Earthquake Drill

Figure 6: Daily Campus Life

Figure 7: Fun in Hiking

Figure 8: Physical Activity Sports Day

Appendix:

1. Changhua Private Kindergarten Affiliated to the University Co-operative Limited of the National Changhua University of Education(Website)

2. National Changhua University of Education Maternal Health Protection Program(PDF)

3. National Changhua University of Education self-health assessment form for pregnant female workers from the beginning of pregnancy to one year after the child’s birth(PDF)

4. List of National Changhua University of Education workplace hazard assessment and maternal health protection measures(PDF)