Chaoyang University of Technology (CYUT); ) is a university in Wufeng District, Taichung, Taiwan. Founded in 1994, originally named Chaoyang Institute of Technology, and granted university status in 1997.
Currently, the university comprises 5 colleges and 23 departments, which offers 23 master's programs and 5 doctoral programs. There are 18,000 students currently enrolled, they are around 1,800, and faculty and staff total about 1,000. It was ranked 1201–1400 by QS in 2024.
List of presidents
History
Chaoyang University of Technology was founded in 1994 through the generosity of Dr. Tien-sheng Yang, the President of the Ever Fortune Group, a major R.O.C.'s conglomerate. He founded it in memory of his parents, and in return for the support he received throughout the years from the people and communities of central Taiwan. In 1988, he chose a site in Wufeng Township of Taichung County (now part of Taichung City), and after six years of preparation, on April 14, 1994, it received permission from the Ministry of Education to begin accepting students as Chaoyang Institute of Technology.
In its first year, Chaoyang Institute of Technology had eight departments and over 900 students. On August 1, 1997, Chaoyang Institute of Technology was designated by the Ministry of Education as a University of Technology, the school name was officially changed to Chaoyang University of Technology. It was Taiwan's first private University of Technology.
In addition to its new designation, Chaoyang University of Technology has continued to expand, and today five colleges, twenty-two graduate schools, including five doctoral programs, twenty-two master's degree programs and twenty-two departments, as well as its Evening Division, General Education Center, Continuing Education Center, Office of Research and Development, Business Incubation Center, and the College of Enterprise Innovation.
Special Activities
Adulthood Rite
According to Li Chi, "When men are twenty years old they should wear a hat and be given an alias. For women, they are allowed to get married, use a hair pin, and give an alias. If the women are married at the age of 15, they are allowed to use a hair pin. If they are not married, they will use a hair pin at the age of thirty." Therefore, the "hat ceremony" is an adulthood rite, which has been an important custom transmitted to us from the ancient times. For the people that have passed such ceremony, they are regarded as adults. Therefore, the adulthood rite is a very important ceremony in a person's life. In order to allow the fresh people who have reached the age of twenty to build up their responsibilities, the student union will sponsor "New Six Classical Arts Campaign – Fresh People Adulthood Rite." In hopes the people can pass the trials of the six classical arts (etiquette, music, archery, horse riding, calligraphy, and mathematics) as preparation for entering the stage of being an adult. In addition, hope the students can have different experiences about being a "scholar" in the traditional Chinese sense; therefore they can become "Confucian Scholars." Passing the trials of the six classical arts, which is designed for the people with the traditional Confucian tradition, the President of the school the Dean of the Academic Affairs will be the host of the Adulthood Rite signifying their maturity. From the process of lighting the candles and incense, worshipping their ancestors, chanting a prayer, drinking wine, following each step after the ancient customs closely. In addition, every participant in the ceremony will give a brief talk telling people their thoughts. The ceremony is simple as well as magnificent, with a strong sense of Confucian mood. With the spirit of the six classical arts as the core, together with team spirits, aim to cultivate the students with humanistic elements, for the development complete personality, lifelong and self-oriented learning. Hope that after all the people undergo this ceremony can fully understand that they are already adults. They should not spend all their time playing when they are studying far away from home. In addition, they have to listen to the teachers’ suggestions to be courageous and diligent, without being lazy. It is their time to face themselves and the society.