The office of the Secretary is the general management arm of the University and provides the President the principal support and coordinates each department’s development and affairs. The office plays an important role in:

  1. performing public relations duties to build good images of the University; updating school development and humanities databases;
  2. enhancing knowledge management, division of labor and specialization; expending a number of programs and services at home and abroad to achieve holistic education;
  3. using a database to preserve historical data and regulate documents of record.

The main mission of the office is to hold the principle of holistic education, play a key role in communication and coordination, and be fully aware of secretarial duties. The future objectives are categorized as follows.

  1. General Affairs: (1) to delegate the authorities to the right level of officials; (2) to complete admission rationalization; (3) to provide more economic and efficient administrative services.
  2. Meetings: (1) to implement the monitoring and controlling systems; (2) to prefect regulations of the University.
  3. Public Relations: (1) to build a positive and an unique image of Chung Yuan Christian University; (2) to establish clear communication channels between the school and communities; (3) to enhance crisis management mechanism of the school.

The office of the Secretary consists of Center of Public Affairs, Internal Audit Division, Art Center, Arts Salon Music Center, Office of University Social Responsibility. A brief introduction to each unit/center is presented below.

Center of Public Affairs

  1. Brand marketing:

    Through featured news, media editing, and school publications to highlights the school’s honor and unique characteristics.
    We establish the school’s brand and value through internal communication of school brand concept and external management of media relations. Internal Auditing Division.

  2.  Public affairs:

    Hold /co-organize important media activities and special activities internally, purchase/manage public relations gift and manage media relations externallys

Internal Auditing Division

The Internal Auditing Division carries out services for Board of Regents and internal controls, and performs Internal Audits. The Internal Auditing Division performs personnel, financial and compliance audits according to internal controls and internal audit implementation plans approved by the President. Common elements of an audit engagement include procedure, control point, forms, meeting minutes, measures, results of external audit/evaluation and trace of their improvement, major project auditing, etc.

Art Center

The aims of the Center are:
1. to promote aesthetic education (i.e. to bring arts into our lives); to put holistic education into practice;
2. to develop art exhibitions and activities; to improve teachers’ and students’ humanistic quality;
3. to increase community art promotion; to integrate local cultural resources. The objectives are to (1) establish communication and dialogue between the university campus and art circles, (2) introduce professional exhibitions to the campus, (3) plan international arts festival, and (4) offer significant educational and diverse cultural opportunities -- where dialogue, the exchange of cultural and artistic ideas are encouraged. The purpose is to help teachers and students to develop their creative thinking, bring art to the people, increase one’s aesthetic knowledge, and generate more publicity for art exhibitions and activities with other school units.

Arts Salon Music Center

Chung Yuan Christian University has long been pursuing the core value of well rounded education, emphasizing the cultivation of true, good and beautiful personality for the students. It is hoped that students, in addition to taking courses in their professional field, will participate in different arts and culture program. The university hold more than 60 concerts , including arranging musicians and performers every semester to perform in the Arts Salon.

In addition to cultivating art and culture for students and faculty, campus open art performances to outsiders. Art is brought to life enabling close communication and interaction with neighboring communities.

Every Wednesday or Thursday, the concerts foster close interaction between the performer and the audience, with easy-to-understand interpretation. So that in addition to enjoying the music, one can have a deeper understanding of music history or music theory, and the appreciation and interest in classical music is generated. And by slowly comprehending the beauty of music, We hope that music is incorporated as an essential part of life.

Office of University Social Responsibility

Through practical implementation of social design and service learning, CYCU encourages young generations to actively practice and develops their capabilities of caring about the society and solving social problems. This will correspond to CYCU ideology of holistic education and educate students with professional, knowledge, and responsibility, under the aim of coexistence of land and human beings. In doing so, universities are not only issuing diploma but also fulfilling their social responsibilities to the society as a whole.