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Vision

Since the Paris Agreement was ratified at the United Nations in 2016, 175 countries consecutively signed in agreement. The attention to climate change from countries all over the world rapidly increased, and in 2020, Microsoft and Apple, in an act of industry leadership, announced climate change action with a deadline of 2030, in- volving its requests in supply chains. With the environment as its primary goal, gov- ernments and corporations took their corporate social responsibility with social aid as its initial aim, and adjusted it into a tangible action for sustainable development with three main aspects (ESG: Environment, Society, and Governance), in hopes to fulfill each of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through tangible actions.
Within the trend in education, the Ministry of Education, in accordance with the SDGs, has promoted the “University Social Responsibility Implementation Plan” USR, leading higher education institutions with a person-centered approach, to come from a local angle, bringing together humanistic care and the introduction of technology, to assist in solving regional issues and fulfill social responsibility.
As an innovative, excellent institution in Taiwan with both professional hard power and liberal arts soft power foundations, in August 2021, this institution established the Liberal Arts College to promote liberal arts education, bringing together academ- ic and administrative units from all over the institution to collaboratively p ote and execute “professional”, “general”, “experiential”, and “community and peer” education, realizing educational goals that address both cultivating hard power professional subjects and soft power (character, value, behavior, attitude) subjects. The Liberal Arts College has drafted “person-centered” core concepts that concretely implements the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, as well as linking up to the ESG Aspect of Corporate Respect in the Higher Education Strategy, further dis- playing the scale and ambition of NYCU Liberal Arts College executing the promotion of the sustainable development of liberal arts education.

Goals

After the university merger, NYCU moved towards bringing together technology and medi- cine. With almost 16,000 students, campuses in multiple cities, social responsibility with a campus-centered approach should develop on multiple fronts. Through stu- dents understanding current events and their situation, as well as a liberal arts mind- set filled with challenge and ion, we allow students to lead NYCU’s social respon- sibility plan, with the school professors as support, allowing NYCU not only to more deeply and tangibly implement USR, but also allowing students to realize the spirit and strength of liberal arts education from the process of learning to plan.

Implementation

The ESG, advocated internationally and by corporations, corresponds to environment (not limited to the campus), societal involvement, and campus systems. With Sustainable and Peer Education Center at its core, we have planned the inter- campus “NYCU Deep Roots Plan”, held the “Sustainable Marathon”, and invited excellent leaders from industry, politics, and academia to share through courses, work- shops, lectures, etc. Through marathon-style learning and discussion, students form inter-campus groups to make proposals while finding their own supervisor, doing review in stages, working with alumni and cultural park businesses. We support students, helping them to find actionable methods, using the characteristics of NYCU’s various university and departments to stimulate an active learning plan unique to the sustainability subject at NYCU.