At NCCU on 26 September, Wen Hai’s documentary Voices and Whispers opened the 4th Chinese Documentary Touring Festival, with the director and Asst. Prof. Ou Tzu-Chi leading a post-screening discussion under the festival’s partnership with NCCU’s “Global Innovation Linkage” USR Seed Project.

During the May 2021 COVID Level-3 alert, NCCU’s “Thriving Wenshan” USR team and the Zhong-Xin Food Bank delivered staple foods and water to low-income students stranded on campus after the outbreak wiped out their already fragile incomes.

At NCCU’s 14 April Brown Bag, Land-Economics professor Chiang Ying-hui used Interior Ministry big data to ask “Do older people live in older homes?”—a question Dean Yang Wan-ying said highlights housing strains across generations amid soaring prices and aging stock.

At the 7 April Brown Bag Talk, National Treasures Project founder Hsiao Hsin-Cheng—U.S.-trained physicist and now a Taiwan-based tech entrepreneur—explained how to pinpoint social problems and craft digital, open-data solutions.

NCCU’s College of Communication and Top Alliance Cable Group have begun a three-year media-literacy program—high-school micro-courses, summer camps, and guided electives—to seed communication skills early and groom future media talent.

At the term’s first Brown Bag on 31 March, Public Administration chair Hsiao Nai-yi used the series’ relaxed lunch slot to outline how online-opinion mining can inform policy deliberation “beyond attention, emotion, and favorability”—a title so expansive that Dean Yang Wan-ying joked she had to read it off the slide.

Co-organized by NCCU’s Jinan Service Club and the Taipei Blood Center, the “What’s Your Type? We Need You!” blood donation drive was held warmly at the Octagon Pavilion on February 24 and 25 from 11:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., encouraging the entire NCCU community to participate and show their compassion.

NCCU’s “2022 Light Up Austronesia Fundraising Concert,” held on February 12 at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, featured performances by Vox Nativa and drew distinguished guests, including former First Lady Chow Mei-ching, who joined the choir on stage.

NCCU held a Lunar New Year screening of Listen Before You Sing, inviting students who couldn’t return home to join President Kuo and guests for a heartfelt film and discussion on Indigenous issues.

To foster deeper discussion on the Hsinchu City-County merger, NCCU’s College of Social Sciences held the Zhinan Policy Forum on January 11, inviting faculty to offer interdisciplinary insights on administrative restructuring.

As part of the “Developments in the Global South” series, Dr. Raviprasad Narayanan was invited to analyze India’s development and its potential as a rising power.

On December 10, NCCU hosted the 4th Indigenous Land Policy Forum, bringing together scholars from multiple disciplines to explore Indigenous land issues and promote interdisciplinary dialogue.