SCU Faculty, Staff Reunite at Spring Banquet to Start New Semester

On February 26, 2018, the first day of spring semester, over 100 SCU faculty and staff members gathered at Downtown Campus, greeting and wishing each other a wonderful year and semester at a spring banquet hosted by the president Wei-Ta Pan and vice presidents Wei-Liang Chao and Bau-Tscheng Dung.

Pan wished all the faculty members a prosperous new year and thanked them for their hard work. He emphasized that the environment of higher education will gradually get grimmer and hoped that everyone can work harder together to create a better learning environment for all the SCU students. Also, Chao mentioned about the Higher Education Sprout Project promoted by the Ministry of Education, anticipating that SCU’s teaching and researching fields will take up a notch. 

Vice President Dung brought up the dog named Taro, which is often found at the first floor of Chong Hui Hall at Waishuanghsi campus, and is like the guard of Soochow campus. Citing a Chinese verse about the security and peace a dog may bring to people, Dung hoped Taro will do so to Soochow and its students, faculty and staff. The deans from all the six schools under SCU also gave blessings for the new year of dog, hoping that Soochow will continue to enjoy all-aspect prosperity, nurture outstanding talents, and foster non-stop innovation.

In the banquet, four visually impaired students, Po-Hong Shen (Dept. of Chinese), Shao-Ching Hsieh (Dept. of Chinese), Shih-Peng Wang (Dept. of Law), and Wen-Chien Lo (Dept. of English), brought music performance as a group called “Soochow’s Four Dragons.” They sang songs including “You Are My Eyes,” “Flying Against the Wind,” and “The Wings in the Wind” before inviting all the faculty to sing along altogether the famous song ”My Future Is Not a Dream” to encourage everyone to pursue their dreams and never give up.

This year, the school administration gave away high-tech specialty socks as gifts for the faculty, wishing them a healthy life so that they may devote themselves to teaching and research while keeping a habit of exercising.