2010淡江大学中英文简介TamkangUniversityBooklet.PDF

創辦人的話 Message from the Founder Toward the Fifth Wave of Tamkang University The rapid expansion of today’s higher education has promoted the development of freedom of education and equal education. This tendency, consequentially, has transformed higher education, which originally cultivates the elite, into a universal education, and, accordingly, all of the universities no longer regard the cultivation of the elite as the goal of education. Instead, they have to respond more actively to the demand of the general public in this plural society. Therefore, a university must first of all understand its own historical legacy, cultural heritage and mission, and, moreover, the vision of its future development. With its four campuses, including the Tamsui Campus, the Taipei Campus, the Lanyang Campus, and the Cyber Campus, Tamkang University in a span of sixty years has undergone four waves of major development--i. e. the Foundation Period, the Positioning Period, the Uplifting Period, and the