The Student Affairs Office is responsible for managing student affairs on campus, under the “3 in 1 “ policy – teaching, disciplining and counseling. Our emphasis is on maintaining campus security, implementing student moral education, setting up unimpeded communication channels, and finally building a fine learning environment based on a student-centered orientation. Our aim is to form a triple-win mode of interaction between school, parents and students. The staff of our office hope that by offering humane, autonomous, self-ruled, multiple and electronic services, and endeavoring to care for students and cultivate their physical and mental development, we will be able to assist them to become a responsible global citizen.

The Student Affairs Office consists of the following divisions, office, and centers:

Student Affairs Office

Life Guidance Division

The main role of this division is to develop students’ moral education, maintain campus security, and ensure that students enjoy a comfortable and friendly learning atmosphere. The main duties of this division are as follows:

• Student’s moral education, service learning, life guidance, and honor competition.
• Organizing and Practicing community care activities.
• Planning and implementation of freshman orientation.
• Processing Gender equality issue.

Extracurricular Activities Division

The division is mainly on inspiring and counseling the Student Association (SA), student self-government groups and student clubs. Our goal is to keep a vivid, vigorous and multiple extra-curricular activities, responsible for encouraging students to abide by school rules, exercise self-discipline, develop their character and engage in effective self-management. The main duties of this division are as follows:

• Counseling of SA and related activities.
• Establishment and instruction of student clubs.
• Offering all kinds of services for overseas and indigenous students.
• Management of School loans, scholarship and grants.
• To management and coordination part-time working students related affairs.

Health Promotion Center

This center is responsible for developing policies for health promotion and disease prevention, offering health-care services to promote and enhance a healthy environment, and establishing correct attitudes to exercise among teachers and students, in order to enhance body and spirit through sports and leisure. There are professional members on campus, including dietitian and registered nurses, to provide students and faculty with more appropriate healthy counseling and information. Our aim is for every person on campus to be in the best physical condition. The main duties of the center are as follows:

• Hygiene, nutrition and health promotion education for everyone on campus.
• Individual medical, physical or nutrition counseling and health-care services.
• Diseases prevention and control.
• Planning and management of exercise utilities on campus.
• Promotion of physical activities on campus.

Student Counseling Center

The center is established with a core value of respect for life. The center, therefore, strives to promote gender equality, to improve mental health wellbeing, and most importantly, to foster a well adjusted philosophy of life. The main duties and services provided by the center are as follows:

• Arranging counseling sessions for student clients.
• Producing promotional materials for mental hygiene and counseling therapy.
• Planning and conducting counseling resources projects.

Student Housing Service Division

This division functions to highlight the fact that dorm life constitutes an essential aspect of a student’s college career. Nowadays, a student dormitory is a venue for life education in which students are allowed to learn and internalize social and interpersonal values and behaviors. Therefore, in addition to providing high quality services, the Student Housing Service Division should work to create an excellent residential environment for cultivating the value of living leisurely life in resident students. The main duties of this center are as follows:

• Dormitory administration and management: accommodation assignment and management, dormitory maintenance, and dormitory disaster rescue and safety drills.
• Dormitory living assistance.
• Maintain and assure dormitory security.
• Dormitory online administration: applications for accommodation, dorm residence changes, residence records, and dorm statistics.

Indigenous Students Resource Center

The center focuses on strengthening the internal operational mechanisms, enhancing the effectiveness of counseling for indigenous students, and creating a culturally friendly campus environment. It provides "one-stop" services for indigenous students on campus. The main responsibilities include: 

• Providing a space as a gathering place and showing concern for the indigenous students campus life.
• Managing the related operations of the "Indigenous Students Scholarships" sponsored by the Indigenous Peoples Commission.
• Assisting in the application for other indigenous-related scholarships both within and outside the campus.
• Organizing indigenous cultural learning and traditional craft courses.
• Enhancing the employability of indigenous students on campus.
• Promoting and implementing indigenous education and cultural activities to establish a friendly campus environment.
• Providing guidance for the activities of indigenous student clubs on campus.
• Writing applications for indigenous-related projects, executing and promoting them, and handling fund reimbursements and other related matters.

Dean of Student Affairs

Dr. Chih-Ming Dong
Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Resources Management
Tel: +886-6-2664911 Ext.1201
E-mail: cmdong@mail.cnu.edu.tw