National Chung Cheng University
| 國立中正大學 | |
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| Motto | 積極創新,修德澤人 |
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Motto in English
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To innovate with earnestness; be virtuous with altruism |
| Type | Public (National) |
| Established | Jul. 1, 1989 |
| President | Jyh-Yang Wu |
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Academic staff
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475 |
| Undergraduates | 6,580 |
| Postgraduates | 5,269 |
| Location |
Minxiong, Chiayi County, Taiwan 23°33′43″N 120°28′29″E / 23.56194°N 120.47472°ECoordinates: 23°33′43″N 120°28′29″E / 23.56194°N 120.47472°E |
| Campus | Suburban, 332 acres (1.34 km²) |
| Endowment | US$-- (NT$--) |
| Mascot | None |
| Affiliations | Taiwan Comprehensive University System |
| Website | ewww |
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| Traditional Chinese | 國立中正大學 | ||||||
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| Literal meaning | National Chiang Kai-shek University | ||||||
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Guólì Zhōngzhèng Dàxué |
National Chung Cheng University (CCU; Chinese: 國立中正大學) is a public research university in Minxiong Township, Chiayi County, Taiwan. It is distinctive among universities in Taiwan in that it is dedicated to the core humanities and the basic sciences, both natural and social. In both quality and quantity of research it annually places among the top 5% of universities in Taiwan. Chung Cheng is among the four universities of Taiwan's Public Ivy - the Taiwan Comprehensive University System.
National Chung Cheng University was the first public university established after Taiwan's economic boom of the 1980s. In 1986, in order to promote research and to develop higher education in the Yunlin, Chiayi and Tainan areas, the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China (Taiwan) approved a plan to establish a strongly research-oriented university in Chiayi. It was named after Chiang Kai-shek, whose given name was Chung-cheng, and officially founded on July 1, 1989. Lin Ching-Jiang (林清江) served as its first president.
Lin established the original five colleges: namely, the College of Humanities, the College of Sciences, the College of Social Sciences, the College of Engineering, and the College of Management. He stepped down in 1996, and was succeeded by Guo-Shuen Jeng (鄭國順, 1997–2001), who in turn was succeeded by Ren C. Luo (羅仁權, 2001–2008).
Jyh-Yang Wu (吳志揚), a mathematics professor, is the current president. Wu's most significant academic accomplishment is the Grove-Petersen-Wu Finiteness Theorem.
National Chung Cheng University is alone among Taiwan universities in devoting itself primarily to the most basic fields of scholarship: physics, chemistry, biology, economics, mathematics, philosophy, history, and literature. In Taiwan, only National Chung Cheng University and National Taiwan University are able to offer a complete, traditional liberal arts curriculum, a curriculum similar in spirit to that of the University of Chicago's Common Core.
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