教育部設置國家講座辦法

In order to provide incentives for cademic development, enhance teaching and research standards, and encourage universities to develop their own individual strengths, the Ministry of Education (hereunder “the Ministry”) has established the National Chair Professorships, in accordance with the provisions of Paragraph 2 of Article 17 of the University Act, and has formulated these Regulations.

1Each National Chair Professorship shall be awarded to a full-time university professor who, on the date set as the deadline for universities to submit recommendations to the Ministry, is aged seventy years or less; to whom none of the situations referred to in the subparagraphs of Article 14, Paragraph 1 of the Teachers’ Act or in the subparagraphs of Article 15, Paragraph 1 of the Teachers’ Act pertain; and who when recommended or selected is still actively engaged in ongoing academic research and teaching, held in high esteem, playing a leading role in shaping the direction of academic thought, and an exemplary role model in the academic community. In addition, the person shall satisfy one of the following eligibility requirements:

21.Be an Academician of Academia Sinica;

32.Have received a Ministry of Education Academic Award at least three years earlier; or

43.Have some outstanding achievement equivalent to being an Academician of Academia Sinica, or to having received a Ministry of Education Academic Award, in an academic or professional field in Taiwan or overseas.

5The current president of a university is not permitted to be one of the candidates recommended or selected for the National Chair Professorship referred to in the preceding paragraph.

1A person who meets the eligibility requirements for a National Chair Professorship set out in Paragraph 1 of the preceding article shall be recommended to the Ministry by their university after their university has conducted a substantive review and their recommendation has been approved by the university-level Teacher Evaluation Committee. Each university may recommend up to four people in each disciplinary category, and the selections shall be made by the Ministry.

2A recommendation for a person who meets the eligibility requirements for a National Chair Professorship set out in Subparagraph 1 or 2 of Paragraph 1 of the preceding article, which has been co-signed by three people in the same disciplinary category as the person recommended but not including that person, each of whom is either an Academician of Academia Sinica or a recipient of a National Chair Professorship, shall be submitted to the Ministry by their university, together with the university’s other recommendations, after the person’s recommendation has been submitted to and approved by the university-level Teacher Evaluation Committee. The number of recommendations of this nature is not counted toward the quotas stipulated in the provisions of the preceding paragraph. However, the maximum number of additional recommendations of this nature permitted for each disciplinary category is the same as the maximum number for each disciplinary category in those quotas.

3The Ministry’s procedures to select National Chair Professors are as follows:

41.A separate Review Board will be set up for each of five disciplinary categories, based on different academic fields: the Humanities and Arts; Social Sciences; Mathematics and Natural Sciences; Biology and Medical and Agricultural Science; and Engineering and Applied Science. From nine to eleven prestigious scholars and experts shall be appointed to be the members of each Review Board. The Standing Committee of the Ministry of Education’s Academic Review Committee shall designate the convener of each Review Board.

1The recusal of members of the Academic Review Committee from review and ballot-casting procedures shall be handled in accordance with the following provisions:

21.If a member of the Academic Review Committee is one of the candidates currently recommended for a National Chair Professorship, that person shall recuse themself from the review and ballot-casting procedures.

32.If any one of the circumstances listed below pertains to any member of the Academic Review Committee and to any candidate currently recommended for a National Chair Professorship, the committee member shall disclose those circumstances to the Committee. That member may participate in the review process but shall recuse themself from the ballot-casting procedure:

4(1)The committee member and the candidate have had a teacher-student relationship in which the committee member was an advisor for the candidate’s doctoral or master’s degree thesis;

5(2)The committee member and the candidate both hold a position in the same department, institute, or division, or in another unit of an equivalent-level;

6(3)The committee member and the candidate have co-authored an academic paper or research findings published within the past two years;

7(4)The committee member and the candidate have jointly conducted a research project within the past three years; or

The annual quota for approved National Chair Professorships shall be limited to thirteen which shall be allocated among the disciplinary categories specified in Article 3, Paragraph 3, Subparagraph 1. The Humanities and Arts category and the Social Sciences category shall each be allocated two, and the remaining categories shall each be allocated three.

1The term of each National Chair Professorship is three years. If it is necessary for a National Chair Professorship to be extended beyond the end of this term, the procedures set out in the provisions of Article 3 shall be conducted before the term ends.

2Any person who has served two terms as a National Chair Professor shall become an honorary life-time National Chair Professor, without participating in any further recommendation or selection process.

1During the period when they are receiving the associated grant, National Chair Professors shall set up elective courses that students from other universities may enroll in; deliver lectures around the country; publicize research and teaching achievements, in order to enhance the quality and general climate of academic research and teaching in Taiwan; and each National Chair Professor shall submit a detailed summary to the Ministry of their findings or other achievements, lectures and presentations given, and substantial contributions made each year

2Their university shall assist each National Chair Professor to establish a designated area where details of their research and teaching achievements will be accessible, in order to enhance academic exchanges and put their achievements to practical use.

1In addition to the necessary resources that each university that recommended a particular National Chair Professorship will provide, the Ministry shall provide NTD two million annually, which shall be allocated each year as follows:

21.A personal grant for each National Chair Professor: up to a maximum of NTD 1,500,000.

32.Teaching and research funds: the amount remaining after the allocation of funds for the National Chair Professor’s personal grant, to be used for employing assistants, operating expenses, and transportation.

4Any person selected to be a National Chair Professor is not permitted to concurrently receive any other grant from the public affairs budget of any other government agency (organization).

1If any of the following circumstances occur, a National Chair Professor’s personal grant shall be handled in accordance with the following provisions:

21.If a National Chair Professor leaves the university where they have a position as a fulltime professor, their grant shall be terminated from the next semester. If, however, the university where the person newly takes up an appointment may continue providing similar administrative resources, and a similar research environment, and offer National Chair Professorship related courses, then that person may continue to receive the grant.

32.If a National Chair Professor takes research leave, they shall report this to the Ministry, and the Ministry shall suspend their grant from the month following the start of their leave. Grant payments shall be resumed when their research leave ends and continue until the expiration of the term of the National Chair Professorship.

43.If a National Chair Professor is seconded in accordance with regulations for a period not exceeding two years, their grant shall be suspended from the month following the start of the secondment. The grant payments shall be resumed when the secondment period ends and continue until the expiration of the term of the National Chair Professorship.

54.If a National Chair Professor assumes the office of university president during the grant period, they shall report this to the Ministry, and their grant shall be suspended from the month following the start of their presidency. The grant payments shall be resumed after the person completes their presidential term and then continue until the term of their National Chair Professorship ends.

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1If any of the circumstances referred to in the subparagraphs below pertained to a National Chair Professor before their selection, the Ministry shall submit the matter to the Academic Review Committee for deliberation and if it passes a resolution approving the disciplinary measure, the Ministry shall declare the person’s eligibility to be a National Chair Professor null and void and require the personal grant that they were paid in accordance with the provisions of Article 7, Paragraph 1, Subparagraph 1 to be repaid:

21.Any of the situations referred to in the subparagraphs of Article 14, Paragraph 1 or the subparagraphs of Article 15, Paragraph 1 of the Teachers’ Act pertains to them, and they were dismissed.

32.They were involved in a violation of academic ethics that would have adversely affected the decision to select them.

43.Any material presented during their selection procedure contained false or incorrect details that would have adversely affected the decision to select them.

5If either of the circumstances referred to in the subparagraphs below pertains to a National Chair Professor after they have been appointed, the Ministry shall submit the matter to the Academic Review Committee for deliberation, and if it passes a resolution approving the disciplinary measure, the Ministry shall revoke the person’s eligibility to hold a National Chair Professorship and shall cease paying the personal grant that was paid in accordance with the provisions of Article 7, Paragraph 1, Subparagraph 1:

61.Any of the situations referred to in the subparagraphs of Article 14, Paragraph or the subparagraphs of Article 15, Paragraph 1 of the Teachers’ Act pertains to them, and they have been dismissed.

These Regulations shall take effect on the date of promulgation.