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A Study on Issues and Solving Strategies of

Transformation and Withdrawal Policies for
Private Colleges and Universities

ABSTRACT

The number of students and schools at higher education level has
expanded significantly since 1990s in Taiwan, but it failed to put forward
effective countermeasures early enough to cope with the problems of

declining birth rate and insufficient student sources that led to chaos in
school management at private colleges and universities in recent years
and some of them even announce withdrawal without warning. The
above situation not only seriously affected students’ rights to learn and

faculty members’ rights to work, but also made it as an urgent issue that
the government and academia have consensus to solve for smoothing the
withdrawal process of private colleges and universities that neither have
enough number of student enrolment nor good school performances.

Educational authority currently is processing the legislative procedure
on the draft of “Regulations on the Withdrawal for Private Senior High
Schools and Private Colleges and Universities.” Just at the time of discussing
this issue between ruling and opposition parties, it is necessary to conduct a

comprehensive review of the problems and impacts from the transformative
process and withdrawal policies for private colleges and universities, so
as to serve as a reference for the government to establish corresponding
mechanisms. Based of the above backgrounds, the purposes of this research

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