Time: 2 to 3:15 pm, Thursday, Nov.6
Venue: Room 206, 2/F, Runme Shaw Building, HKU & Zoom
Speaker: Prof. Angela Yung Chi Hou, College of Education, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Chair: Prof. Jisun Jung, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Registration link: https://hku.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bseV6ebAJe2QSzQ

Abstract: 

Owing to widespread implementation of UN SDGs worldwide, Asian governments began to take a new turn to address several emerging themes in SDGs, such as clean energy, green economy, decarbonising transportation, etc., which is manifested to facilitate universities to integrate sustainability into institutional policies, governance and practices.  Moreover, two quality assessment instruments in higher education, global rankings and quality assurance have developed a new set of metrics to measure university commitment to SDGs. Hence, the lecture will focus actions taken by Taiwan’s universities listed in THE Impact Ranking in response to the emerging sustainability metrics developed by global rankings and national accreditation. Furthermore, the purposes and strategies adopted by Taiwanese universities took to incorporate “sustainability” into current institutional governance and related new initiatives are analyzed. The challenges that universities encountered are presented. 

About the speaker:

Angela Yung-Chi Hou is a Professor of Higher Education at the College of Education, National Chengchi University, Taiwan. She served as Executive Director of the Higher Education Evaluation & Accreditation Council of Taiwan (HEEACT), National accreditor of Taiwan from 2016 to 2021 and has been deeply engaged in quality assurance practice and international research for over 20 years.  She serves as Chief-in-Editor of Higher Education Evaluation and Development (HEED) Emerald and Higher Education in Asia: Quality, Excellence and Governance by Springer, Associate Editor of Journal of Asian Pacific Educational Review (SSCI) and Quality in Higher Education (SCOPUS) and several editorial boards of peer-reviewed journals in higher education field. In 2023, she was granted the “Outstanding Research Award” by the National Science and Technology of Taiwan and the “Excellent Research Award “at National Chengchi University.  

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