ABSTRACT
Since the 1990s, the overall social and economic environment and industrial structure in Taiwan have undergone tremendous change, creating an urgent need for advanced technical professionals. Therefore, to cope with the development of advanced vocational education, the government has relaxed the limits to the reorganization of junior colleges and upgrading to university of technology year after year. As a result, within several years, the number of advanced vocational colleges has surged. Although this satisfies the expectations and needs of the general public, this development generates the problem of an imbalance between ‘quality’ and ‘quantity’. From the angle of the history of vocational education in Taiwan, this study discusses the developing process of campus planning in the early stage of starting a university of science technology. The case study focuses on a sample school, Chaoyang University of Technology, which was founded in 1994 and designated by the Ministry of Education as the first private university of technology in 1997. Accordingly, through the case study, this study focuses on the establishment of a private university of technology in a new way, exploring the course of development in terms of planning, establishment and practice of space at the initial development stage. The purpose is to understand the possible problems and challenges the newly established private universities of technology might encounter during the stage of campus planning and the strategies to provide concrete and practical references for the planning of other newly established vocational schools.
