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SDG 16.2.2 Students’ union
Article 33 of Taiwan’s University Act stipulates that each university shall advise and assist its students in forming a student association by holding elections in which all the university’s students have a vote and set up other associated self-governing organizations to enhance the effectiveness of students’ on-campus learning and their ability to act autonomously.
Therefore, NCUE actively assists and advises its students in establishing a student union. It has also set up the NCUE Student Union Statute (Annex 16.2.2A(PDF)) to enable students to participate in student affairs, promote democratic literacy, maintain campus harmony, and enhance students’ well-being’. The NCUE Students’ Union, which has been in existence for about 29 years, actively encourages students to participate in student affairs based on the democratic spirit and the goals of maintaining campus harmony and enhancing students’ well-being. The President and Vice President of the Student Union are elected by the entire body of undergraduate student. NCUE recognizes the Student Union as an independent and self-governing association. Its primary function is to serve as a liaison between students and the university. The Student Union is responsible for conveying student opinions and electing representatives to participate in various university meetings, including the University Affairs Meeting, Administrative Meeting, Academic Affairs Meeting, Curriculum Meeting, and Student Affairs Meeting. In these forums, they provide opinions and engage in constructive dialogue with the university administration.
Furthermore, the Student Union convenes university-wide club meetings to promote initiatives and collaborate with other specialized student club. The Union also combines its operation with online communication platforms to convey student opinions and advocate for student rights and interests.
NCUE's Measures to Support the Student Union's Self-Governance:
1. The Student Union’s website provides details on its structure, and this information is available in the “Campus Life” section on NCUE’s homepage.
https://ncuesa.ncue.edu.tw/bin/home.php
2. The Student Election Committee organized the 2024 election of the Student Union President and Vice President (Figure 1).
Figure 1. Election of Student Union President and Vice President
3. The Student Union organized a Christmas Carnival campus concert to alleviate students' stress in daily life (Figure 2).
Figure 2. Christmas Carnival Campus Concert
4. NCUE encourages students to participate in the Student Union Camp—Passing On Experience and Transforming organized by the Youth Development Administration, Ministry of Education, through which they can learn and enhance their student self-governance experience (Figure 3). Event website:
Figure 3. Student Union Camp—Passing On Experience and Transforming
5. At the end of 2024, the Student Union shared red bean tangyuan to faculty and students to spread warmth and strengthen ties between the administration and student community (Figure 4).
Figure 4. Year-end activities
6. The student union assists student clubs in preparing the club exhibition, arranging club performances, and onboarding members. All this creates a vivid and warm atmosphere on campus (Figure 5, Figure 6). Website:
Figure 5. Club Exhibition - Performance Area
Figure 6. Club Exhibition - Recruitment Area
7. The Student Union organized a legal education lecture, inviting Lawyer Chen Yu-Ching and Deputy Executive Director Ke Yun-Ching from the Taiwan Innocence Project to share insights, enabling students to understand judicial reform and the impact of national justice concerns on wrongful conviction cases (Figure 7).
Figure 7. Legal Education Lecture
Enclosed are the details, including the supporting information:
Email: contact@ncuesa.org.tw
Fan page: https://www.facebook.com/NCUESA/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ncuesa/
LINE: @250hsade
8. The Student Union held the NCUE Campus Concert in Jinde Campus on May 22, 2024. The concert featured host Huang Yun and invited performers including Sun Sheng-xi, Pai Wei-jun, Li Hao-wei, Lin Yi, icyball band, and Nancy Kane to energize the entire venue! (Figure 8)
Figure 8. Poster for the 2024 NCUE campus concert
9. NCUE established a Student Congress in accordance with the Student Congress Organization Self-Governance Regulations (Appendix 16.2.2B(PDF)) to exercise the authority granted by the Student Union Self-Governance Charter. The exercise of such authority and the regulation of congressional members' conduct are further defined by self-governance regulations. The Student Congress shall have one Speaker and one Vice Speaker, elected from along its members. The Student Congress shall establish the following committees: Legal Affairs Committee, Finance Committee, and Student Rights Committee. The responsibilities of each committee are as follows:
(1) Legal Affairs Committee: Review bills referred by congress meetings; review organizational and other matters not under the jurisdiction of other committees; provide legal consultation services.
(2) Finance Committee: Review bills referred by congress meetings; review matters related to finance, budget, final accounts, accounting, auditing, and administrative financial affairs; supervise budget execution; review financial income and expenditure and approve budgets; investigate financial matters and illegal or unfaithful conduct in financial and fiscal affairs.
(3) Student Rights Committee: Review bills referred by congress meetings; review matters related to student rights handled by the Student Rights Department of the administrative center and supervise the implementation of Student Rights Department affairs.
10. The Student Congress invited Taipei City Councilor Miao Po-ya to deliver a speech for the General Education Lecture of Student Congress on March 26, 2024. The lecture topic was "Pragmatic Idealist." Through the speaker's personal experience in student movements and public affairs, the lecture aimed to inspire students' attention to student self-governance and social participation. Through in-depth discussion and reflection, it hoped to enhance students' imagination and practice of student self-governance. (Figures 9-11) The lecture video was uploaded to YouTube. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpCMAoqdr8A ).
Figure 9. Poster for Taipei City Councilor Miao Po-ya’s Lecture
Figure 10. Certificate of Appreciation Presented to Taipei City Councilor Miao Po-ya
Figure 11. Group Photo with Participants of the lecture
11. The Graduate Student Association (GSA) serves as NCUE's graduate student self-governing organization, composed of representatives elected from various graduate institutes, with a president and executive officers responsible for conducting association affairs. Its functions include reflecting graduate student opinions, participating in university administrative meetings, facilitating communication between the university administration and students, and promoting affairs and advocating for graduate student rights through meetings and LINE group communications. The GSA organized the 2025 GSA presidential election as shown in Figure 12.
Figure 12. The poster for Graduate Student Union President Election