By Ciou Peiyi
In June 2020, Our school decided to renovation of research room, and recording to their explanation, they are planning to turn the research room into reading room. After this news, the graduate students of our university felt disrespected, they reacted to the Student Union first, so the Student Union proposed to school to hold a public hearing meeting so that can collect students’ thought. But the Vice-Chancellor answer them’ there is no need to do that.’ And refuse their suggest. This action caused the dissatisfaction of most graduate students.
At the beginning, graduate students were tried to use proper process to protest the behavior of school. As of June 29th ago, 600 people had signed up to ask the school, pause the works and listen to students opinions. And also disclose the decision-making process and project-related information. Although the school stopped the projects for a while, their announce statement tried to indicate students just want to exclusive the research room and force school to compromise with students imply. This makes students rage about them, so the students they started to took various way to protest, but it doesn’t make things better, the school are tearing the research room down during this summer vacation.
Another thing makes students furious is about the graduation certificate, when school distributes graduation certificates of this year’s graduates, they use clear holders with Shih Hsin University’s logo to cover the graduation certificate, but not traditional hard material packaging. But in most of students thoughts, the graduation certificate not just a sheet to prove our graduated, but also means a sense of honor. No one wants that if they show their graduation certificate to friends or company in the future, they only have a L folder to show everyone.
We love this place and this school, but sometimes school policy will makes people feel disappointed and frustrated. But we still holding our hope to school, so that we are trying to keep watching every movement from the school.
(Edited by Team T, Harry, Jenny, Judy, George.)
ReplyDelete2020 overall is a very confusing year, and our university, Shih Hsin University, is no exception. We can not tell if it is good or not. However, the only thing we can do for now is to observe it as time flies. Since many things have happened this semester. Today, we have some stories to share with you.
In June 2020, our university decided to renovate research rooms. According to their announcement, they were planning to turn the research rooms into reading rooms. After this news was announced, the graduate students of our university felt they were being disrespected. They made a response to the Student Union at first. Then, the Student Union proposed that the school should hold public hearing meetings to collect students' thoughts. However, the Vice-Chancellor answered them, "There is no need to do that," and refused their proposal. Most of the graduate students were disappointed by this decision.
In the beginning, graduate students were trying to use the proper process, such as petition, to protest the university's decision. As of June 29th, 600 people had signed the petition to ask the university to pause the works and listen to the students' voices, they also disclosed the decision-making process and project-related information. Although the university stopped the project for a while, their announcement tried to indicate that research rooms are what the university wanted. Forcing the graduate students to compromise with the university's decision. This statement made the students rage at the university, so they started to take various ways to protest. Unfortunately, nothing worked. In the end, the university had torn down the research rooms during this summer vacation.
Another thing that made students furious was the graduation certificate. When the university distributed graduation certificates to this year's graduates, they used clear holders with Shih Hsin University's logo to cover the graduation certificate, instead of traditional hard material packaging. For most students, the graduation certificate was not only just a sheet to prove our degree, but it also meant a sense of honor. No one would be proud to show their graduation certificate to friends or companies in the future, when the only packaging they got is a cheap l-type plastic folder.
Although we love this university, sometimes the policies really made people feel disappointed and frustrated. It is like a love-hate relationship. But we still have hope for our university, and we will keep an eye on whatever will happen next.