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Date:2016-10-24
Bracket:2016 NCYU News
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Opening ceremony NCYU Founds Indigenous Students Resource Center to Promote Indigenous Culture

  To facilitate counseling and career development services to indigenous students, the Indigenous Students Resource Center, National Chiayi University, was set up on Oct. 20th. An unveiling ceremony took place on the Lantan campus, attended by a number of honorable guests who came to offer their congratulations. They included Huang Wen-Ling, Director General of the Department of Overall Planning, Ministry of Education, Wang Ming-Hui, Vice Chairman of the Aboriginal nationality committee, Jiang Qi-Yuan, Chief of Indigenous Peoples Affairs Section, Civil Affairs Department, ChiaYi County Government, Bukun Ismahasan Islituan, Chairman of the Indigenous Peoples Cultural Foundation, as well as consultants and advisory committee members of the Center.

  The unveiling ceremony of the Indigenous Students Resource Center kicked off with a greeting dance by the indigenous students and praying ritual by Wang Qing-Zheng and Gu Mu-Shui, seniors respectively of the Taiya and Bunun tribes. The indigenous seniors presented pack baskets, which symbolize a heavy load and a long road, to NCYU President Chiou and MOE Director General Huang. Indigenous traditional handicraft, delicacies and wine were specially prepared by the students for the occasion, enabling all the guests to experience the indigenous culture.

  President Chiou sent his greetings to all the guests and participants in different indigenous languages. He indicated that there are more than 170 indigenous students in NCYU, several of whom have joined and achieved remarkable results in the Special Examination for Indigenous Persons after graduation. To assist development of the indigenous tribes, they founded the Indigenous Students Resource Center with a hope to provide indigenous students with high-quality resources and assistance in academic learning, daily life and career planning. They have also integrated tribal resources to offer workshops on indigenous art and culture and tribe experience camps, with a view to passing on the indigenous culture. By means of integrating professional manpower and resources, they hoped to establish a positive learning, growing and development environment for indigenous students, with the ultimate goal to cultivate outstanding indigenous practitioners.

  There are two indigenous student clubs at NCYU, consisting of around 40 indigenous students and non-indigenous students with an interest in indigenous issues from different departments of the university. In addition to regular student club lessons, they create dance and music and perform at “NCYU Indigenous Peoples Week” and events of “providing services to home tribes” on an annual basis. They have given performances at a few tribes, and have thus become a well-known student club in central and southern Taiwan in recent years.

  Chen Ming-Cong, Dean of Student Affairs, NCYU, stressed that the counseling services for indigenous students will put a focus on “interdisciplinary development” and “promoting the local strengths of the tribes.” By enhancing cultural literacy of the tribes in the indigenous students and helping preserve characteristics of the tribes, they hoped to encourage the indigenous students to engage in studies on their home tribes, so as to boost industrial development in the tribes.

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