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3. There are various negative impacts caused from transformation and
withdrawal policies for colleges and universities. The Presidents,

trustees, and faculty members adopted different corresponding
approaches and solving strategies.

4. There are more private colleges and universities than public ones in
Taiwan, U.S., Japan, and South Korea, and also face withdrawal
situations in recent years. However, governments in Taiwan, U.S.,

Japan, and South Korea intervene such withdrawal situation with
different approaches and play proportion of roles in the process.
Their experiences all are worthy to be referenced.

5.The research constructed “financial warning indicators for private
colleges and universities” divides private colleges and universities’

financial status into four categories, as normal condition, yellow zone
preliminary stage of normal condition, yellow zone (difficult
management), and red zone (extremely difficult management).

Based on the above conclusions, the research proposed seven
improving approaches, including 28 concrete suggestions:

I. Planning Ideals for Higher Education and
Developing Consensus

1. The government and social sectors should confirm the meanings of

private colleges and universities’s publicness as the principles for school
management.

2. All sectors in the society should plan together for the developing blueprint
of higher education as the basis for the revision of regulations on the

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