On December 11, Chen Mei-ling shared insights on regional revitalization policy as part of NCCU’s “Leadership Vision and Altruistic Values” lecture series.

As part of the “Wenshan for All” University Social Responsibility (USR) initiative, NCCU partnered with Taipei First Girls High School to offer a six-session micro-course titled “Seeing Poverty: It’s Not What You Think” during the first semester of the 2021 academic year. The course concluded successfully, fostering deeper understanding of poverty-related issues.

On November 22–23, NCCU’s USR team visited Jianshi Township to explore local development and industry diversity as part of regional revitalization efforts.

On December 7, NCCU hosted a talk on digital sexual violence, featuring legal and counseling experts who addressed the issue from legal, structural, and cultural perspectives, drawing over 70 participants.

On December 8, NCCU and Shih Hsin University co-hosted a lecture on self-media and Indigenous identity, featuring scholars, podcasters, and students sharing their personal experiences.

Since 2018, NCCU’s SPROUT Project has promoted diverse learning, global vision, and digital innovation to nurture socially engaged, interdisciplinary talents.

Through the year-end exhibition “May You Always Be Well,” NCCU’s USR Wenshan Project honors the memories of Ankang public housing and shares wishes of health and peace with all visitors.

On June 17, NCCU’s “Digital Marketing Education for New Immigrants” project launched its first online exhibition, Beyond Boundaries, showcasing new immigrants’ stories through student-led transnational perspectives.

After six years of collaborative efforts by the Ministry of Education, NCCU’s Center for Aboriginal Studies, and Indigenous communities, the Atayal and Seediq language editions have officially been approved and launched by the Wikimedia Foundation—following the earlier launch of the Sakizaya edition.

Xiao Qun-Yu, a Social Work graduate and now a third-year Counseling and Guidance master’s student at NCCU, brings deep commitment to youth services—first as a USR teaching assistant, then by launching the “Ankang Challenge” and founding the “Glimmer Box”—guided by his philosophy of “companionship” rather than “help.”

On October 19, NCCU’s Graduate Institute of Development Studies, the College of Social Sciences, and the ICDF launched the Development Aid and International Development Lecture Series, featuring ICDF Secretary-General Xiang Tian-Yi’s inaugural talk on global and Taiwan development aid.

Universities must fulfill their social responsibility by empowering students to apply their strengths to advance society—technologically, economically, socially, and culturally—improve people’s lives, and promote social progress.