Since joining the Teaching Excellence Program in 2005, TNUA has succeeded in elevating the university’s competitiveness, teaching quality and students’ achievements. Not only did TNUA become the only university to receive subsidies for four consecutive years in the first phase of the Teaching Excellence Program, it also has received recognition for its outstanding performance in the second phase, which has awarded TNUA the highest amount of subsidies of all national universities.
Building on its achievements, TNUA is devising its plan for the second-phase Teaching Excellence Program by enlisting the concept of “flagship plan” to maximize its efficiency, which will be built on a backbone of four dimensions – international, inter-school, inter-technological, and inter-human – to promote its “Four Arts” program. The program will focus on building a TNUA arts education brand to match that of any other international first-rate counterparts. It will pursue four educational styles – tolerant, native, unique and active.
The annual Kuandu Arts Festival is meant to international showcase of the integration of arts, culture, education and local colors. It gathers together excellent theatre groups, artists and alumni in various activities. It offers exhibitions and forums, as well as other activities that encourage community participation.
To expand its international ties for pedagogical purposes, TNUA has arranged many exchange programs with world-renowned arts institutions and universities. Its teachers and students have traveled to the US, Europe, Asia and Australia in various programs, and it has invited many international artists and scholars to participate in almost 800 forums, lectures and workshops.
TNUA’s mission is to create new values of art. Apart from honing the students’ skills and advancing their academic achievements, TNUA is helping nurture a generation of modern citizens with multiple cultures and senses, as well as creating a cross-disciplinary arts education. Inline with its cross-disciplinary education, TNUA and the Quanta Arts Foundation, after almost a year of planning, launched the “Transfuture” exhibition to showcase a marriage of art and technology.
TNUA is a liberal university aiming to give students a multifarious arts education combining the traditional and the modern, the local and the West, the empirical and the theoretical, creative and research work. TNUA is looking to become one of the world’s most important institutions for the arts.