NKUHT, National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism

National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism (NKUHT) is an independent and self-governing institution, consisting of three schools, one college, and one permanent committee. To meet its development needs, upgrade its technology, and/or make further contributions to the theory of hospitality, NKUHT is permitted to alter its own statutes at will under the provisions of the University Act, and report to Ministry of Education for future reference.

NKUHT appoints one president, who is responsible for the overall management of the university and its academic development, and who represents NKUHT externally. This post has been held by Professor Pearl Lin since 1st April 2016. The number, tenure, and qualifications of the Vice Presidents appointed by the President is stipulated in NKUHT’s Organizational Regulations. Currently, there are three Vice Presidents, responsible for assisting the President with administrative, academic, and industrial affairs, respectively.

NKUHT’s divisional/departmental administrative organization mirrors its academic arrangements. Administratively, all departments are within one of its five academic divisions:

a)      School of Hospitality Management

b)      School of Tourism

c)      School of Culinary Arts

d)      International College

e)      Committee for General Education.

The college, the schools, and the committee each appoint a dean responsible for their own overall management; and each department is led by a director responsible for handling the affairs of the department. The deans of the colleges are also the chair of the College Affairs Meetings, the Teacher Evaluation Committees and the Curriculum Committees. The directors of each department are the apparent members of the committees. They hold regular meetings to discuss and resolve various academic affairs to promote the operation of the college's administration, teaching, and curriculum. In addition, the directors of each department are required to lead, manage and develop the department to ensure it achieves the highest possible standards of excellence in all its activities.

NKUHT’s Academic Affairs Office appoints a Dean of Academic Affairs, responsible for ensuring the service quality within the academic affairs unit through the appropriation and allocation of necessary resources, and through the establishment and coordination of policies and priorities. Additionally, there is Academic Vice President supervises the academic affairs, enrollment, and evaluation of academic units. And assisting the President with academic affairs and institutional research and development.

NKUHT’s core competence indicators are “professional attitude”, “professional qualifications”, “team spirit”, “international vision”, “professional foreign-language education” and “humanity literacy”. It aims to attract outstanding talent from every part of Taiwan to its high-class hospitality education, with the wider goal of internationalizing and globalizing of the country’s domestic student population.

NKUHT strives to make appropriate adjustments to the diversity of its teaching in response to the learning needs of its international students, who come from Vietnam, Singapore, Japan, Indonesia, Ecuador, China, Thailand, France, Colombia, Swaziland, South Korea, Malaysia and many other countries; and Thai, Vietnamese, and Indonesian language classes are also offered. It is expected that every NKUHT graduate will shine in the international job market as a talented and professionally qualified person....