National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University School of Management In-service Class Information Management Group 

Credit fee charging standard adjustment plan

Foreword: 

1. The Information Management Group of the School of Management’s Master’s In-Service Classes (hereinafter referred to as this group) plans to adjust the credit fee to 7,500 yuan per credit starting from the 2012 academic year. According to the "Tuition and Miscellaneous Fee Collection Methods for Colleges and Above Colleges", the credit fee adjustment must be made by Each special class will set up a discussion group, and the members of the discussion group must include student representatives from the special class.

2. This adjustment of credit fees is expected to be applicable to freshmen admitted in the 2012 academic year. The adjustment process and estimated timetable are shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1: Adjustment process and estimated timetable for asset management class credit fees

1. Usage of credit fee funds 

1. Funding sources:

The funding source for each in-service master's degree class in the School of Management is credit fees, and the base of tuition and miscellaneous fees is fully managed by the school (payment of water and electricity bills, software and hardware equipment, enrichment and replacement of old library resources, etc.). Each special class in this group The credit fee is RMB 6,500, of which RMB 1,000 is the school administrative fee. Therefore, the actual income of this special class per credit is RMB 5,500.

According to the "Key Points for the Management of Funds and Expenditures of National Yang-Ming Jiaotong University's In-service Master's Classes" revised in March 2011, starting from the 2011 academic year, the income of in-service special classes will be converted into the total tuition and miscellaneous fees and credit fees. 29% will be used by the school as a whole, and 1% will be used by the school. The Office of Academic Affairs coordinates the use, and 7% is used by the affiliated college. Therefore, the actual income of this special class is 63% of the total tuition, miscellaneous fees and credit fees. The use of funds is based on the principle of self-sufficiency. If there are annual surpluses, they can continue to be used.

2. Fund utilization details:

The funds used for this special class are the same as those of other special classes, including teacher hourly fees, thesis guidance fees and degree oral examination fees, special class teaching assistant fees, team leader work fees (1 person), assistant salary work fees (1 person), work-study fees Work-study fees and other related expenses. In addition, special class students and day students in the department share resources in terms of hardware and space equipment, so the special class fees also support various equipment in the department (such as classroom computers, projectors, desks, etc.) , general classroom and laboratory repairs, air-conditioning decoration, replacement, etc.). Our school does not support additional teacher positions for special classes. Therefore, teachers’ teaching hourly fee standards are given flexibility and are decided by each group of special classes.

2. Usage of funds for special classes 

The funding usage of the Information Management Group of the School of Management in recent years is as follows:

1. Personnel expenses: including hourly fees for teachers, course teaching assistant fees, work-study fees for work-study students, additional payment for special class supervisors, salary for special class assistants, fees for assisting special class courses and related planning work committee members, etc.

2. Business expenses: including thesis guidance fees, graduation thesis oral examination fees, oral examination committee transportation fees, lecture fees, administrative expenses and related expenses - course handout photocopying fees, office supplies fees, telephone fees, consumables fees, etc.

3. Equipment fee: including wall painting of teaching space facilities, updates of hardware equipment such as computers, single-gun projectors, digital lecture tables, and microphone amplifiers, as well as replacement of space equipment such as teacher laboratories, student laboratories, conference rooms, etc. .

Reference, adjustment objects and reasons 

1. Adjustment objects: Freshmen of special classes enrolled in the 2012 academic year (inclusive). Information on the adjustment of credit fees for freshmen admitted in the 2012 academic year will also be announced in the admission brochure for in-service master's degree classes in the 2012 academic year.

2. Reasons for adjustment:

(1) Reduction in enrollment quota
The enrollment quota of this special class has been reduced from 27 to 21 since the 2010 academic year, which has greatly affected the overall tuition income of the special class. The annual income is approximately less than 1.32 million. 

(2) Reform of key points in revenue and expenditure management of special classes
According to the "Key Points for the Management of Funds and Expenditures of National Yang-Ming Jiaotong University's In-service Master's Programs", starting from the 2011 academic year, the income of in-service special classes will be converted into 63% of the total tuition, miscellaneous fees and credit fees. This regulation will affect the annual shortage of special class income by approximately 265,000. . 

(3) Increasing personnel costs

1. The second generation of health insurance has been launched since 2010, and personnel costs have increased significantly.

2. In 2014, in accordance with the Ministry of Education’s “Principles for the Study and Labor Rights Protection of Student Part-time Assistants,” all labor-type part-time assistants and work-study students need to be covered by labor insurance, which again increases personnel costs.

3. Starting from August 1, 2020, in compliance with the Ministry of Education's "Measures for the Appointment of Part-time Teachers in Colleges and Above Schools", the school will insure labor insurance, employment insurance and national health insurance for part-time teachers during the validity period of the contract, and those who meet the qualifications stipulated in the Labor Pension Ordinance will Monthly pensions are paid for part-time teachers who do not have their own jobs, and the cost of hiring part-time teachers increases significantly. 

4. On July 1, 2017, in line with the government’s salary increase policy, personnel costs such as teacher hours and work-study students were increased.

5. From September 1, 2020, the Ministry of Education will cooperate with the Ministry of Education to amend the "Part-time Teachers' Hourly Fee Payment Standard Table for Public Colleges and Universities" to increase the hourly fees for full-time and part-time teachers in this academic program. The corresponding employer-borne and other personnel costs will also follow. Increase.

6. On January 1, 2011, in line with the government’s salary increase policy, personnel costs for assistants, work-study students, etc. were increased. 

(4) Cost considerations at the education stage

1. As the educational stage increases, educational options increase and educational benefits are more directly reflected in students’ personal careers and achievements. Postgraduate students are at the highest educational stage and have the highest educational costs (on average, smaller classes, more space, more equipment, etc.) , coupled with the improvement of students' autonomy, require course offering units to have more courses for them to choose from. Therefore, in order to meet students' needs for knowledge, increasing the number of courses will inevitably increase various costs.

2. Compared with tuition fees, the asset management class pays more attention to the quality and diversity of teaching, research resources, industrial and academic exchanges. In order to cultivate outstanding industry talents and integrate with international standards, the adjusted funds can provide more diversified industrial academic exchanges, exquisite seminars or lectures, forward-looking courses and research subsidies.

3. With the COVID-19 epidemic in 2019, it is necessary to strengthen the quality of distance teaching and equipment procurement.

(5) Hardware equipment update

In order to provide students with a better learning environment and further improve the quality and effectiveness of teaching. During the academic year 2000-110, under the existing funds, this academic program will try its best to update the space equipment:

1. COVID-19 prevention supplies: induction temperature measuring alcohol spray machine, forehead thermometer gun.

2. Distance teaching equipment: video conferencing cameras, video conferencing laptops.

3. Replace teaching equipment such as computers, digital desks, printers, classroom single-gun projectors, and microphone amplifiers.

4. Repair and manage the teaching classrooms in the second building, renovate the AB101 large classroom in the first comprehensive building, desks, chairs and air-conditioning equipment in the student laboratory, and paint, clean and maintain the public spaces.

5. Establish, update and maintain the official website of the Asset Management Office and the Facebook fan group of the Asset Management Office. 

(6) Maintain competitiveness

Compared with other schools, in the past few years, other benchmark schools have increased credit fees in consideration of cost, teaching and service quality, and the results have been good. The credit fee (actual income) of the asset management class has never been increased since the 2013 academic year. Compared with other in-service special classes, the credit fee of this special class is relatively low. Through this adjustment of credit fees, competitiveness and good teaching quality can be maintained. 

(7) Summary

Master's degree in-service education takes into account both management theory and practice and is an important driver of the transformation of Chinese enterprises. However, in recent years, water, electricity and commodity prices have risen, and the demand for research funds has increased, resulting in an increase in operating costs and teachers' teaching load. In addition, the enrollment quota of this special class has decreased by 6 since the 2010 academic year, which has affected the special class's tuition income to decrease by nearly 1.32 million. The main source of funding for in-service master's degree classes is credit fees. Although the past balance of the asset management class can make up for the funding shortfall, in the long run, if income and expenditure cannot reach a balance, it will have a great impact on the quality and environment of teaching and services. . In addition to students' requirements for diversified course choices and teaching environment needs, this special class refers to the credit fee standards for in-service master's courses in other universities (Table 1), as well as the credit fee standards for in-service full-time courses at our School of Management (Table 1). Table 2), in order to improve the efficiency of teaching and research, adjusting credit fees is an inevitable way.

Table 1: Comparison of charging standards for 110 academic years for in-service master’s programs between our school and other schools Unit: Yuan

Table 2: Fee standards for the 110-year academic year for in-service special courses in the School of Management of our school Unit: Yuan

4. Calculation method  

According to the "Key Points for the Management of Funds and Expenditures of National Yang-Ming Jiaotong University's In-Service Master's Specialized Classes" revised in March 2011, starting from the 2011 academic year, the special class income will be transformed into the total tuition and miscellaneous fees and credit fees. 29% will be used by the school as a whole, and 1% will be used by the Academic Affairs Office. The department is responsible for the overall use, and 7% is used by the affiliated college. The income of each group of special classes is 63% of the total tuition, miscellaneous fees and credit fees.

At present, this group of special classes offers an average of 14 courses per academic year. Based on the tuition fee of 6,500 yuan per credit hour, it is estimated that the revenue and expenditure for the academic year will be a loss of approximately 600,000 yuan. If the credit class funds are used to support the hourly fees for the four courses, the actual balance of the special class is only 13,000 (Table 3, Fee Standard 1). If the credit fee is increased, based on the standard two-credit fee of 7,500 yuan, and the credit class funds are used to support the hourly fees for the four courses, it is estimated that there will be an annual balance of about 440,000 yuan, which can continue to maintain the stable quality and long-term development of the asset management class. Possibility of continuing operations.

Table 3: Trial calculation of tuition adjustment for in-service special classes in the Asset Management Group

5. Expenditure plan and estimated increase in resources after adjustment 

In addition to cost considerations, increasing credit fees also aims to increase department resources to provide students with a better learning environment. The following are the resources expected to increase after the adjustment of credit fees for asset management classes: 

1. Maintain and improve the quality of the teaching environment:

Since the school's treasury allocation (including equipment fees and business fees) decreases every year, the school needs to maintain the funds required for equipment purchase and business operations through stable and sustainable dedicated class operations. 

(1) Purchase equipment 

In order to maintain and improve the quality and effectiveness of teaching, our institute regularly updates and purchases the following equipment:

1. Software and hardware equipment: updated computers, single-gun projectors, digital desks, photocopiers, microphone amplifiers, classroom air conditioners, desks and chairs.

2. Distance teaching equipment: Purchase video conferencing cameras, recording equipment, laptops, etc. to solve the problem of online teaching of some courses due to epidemic prevention considerations and improve the effectiveness of students' digital learning. 

(2) Maintain classroom space

Schools and departments provide adequate software and hardware equipment to create a high-quality learning environment. Over the years, the School of Management has continuously integrated and planned existing spaces and reorganized various learning classrooms. Based on the School of Management's concept of resource sharing in the design of teaching and research spaces, our institute has renovated the AB101 classroom in the first comprehensive building in 110, so that students in this group of special classes and other departments can share a spacious and novel learning space. In 2011, it is expected to replace the desks and chairs in classroom 312 of the second building, repaint the classroom, replace the curtains, etc. to optimize the comfort of the teaching space. In the future, it is planned to renovate the exclusive research room for the asset management class to provide space for case discussion and research use by students in the special class. 

(3) Operating an online communication platform 

In order to synchronize and make information transparent, our institute has established the official website of the Institute of Asset Management (including special class information) to provide students of this special class with the latest course information and immediate response to learning opinions, creating a friendly teaching and exchange platform. 

2. Maintain and enhance the diversity of the curriculum:

The asset management class strengthens the on-the-job learning function of the higher education system and provides multiple on-the-job learning channels to meet the needs of industry professionals to further learn information technology and management expertise. Therefore, in the course planning, special emphasis is placed on the combination of management theory and information technology, emphasizing the use of IT technology in value management of data, information, and knowledge, to effectively support the science and technology park in cultivating practical talents with information management majors and information system integration.

Based on the current opening of asset management classes, approximately 14 professional courses are offered each school year (including summer vacation) for students in this group and other special classes to choose from. This special class will refer to industry trends and listen to students' course needs, and continuously evaluate and adjust the course content. In order to provide more diverse course options, it is planned to hire additional experts and scholars to offer additional courses to meet the learning needs of students. 

3. Increase professional teachers

Since the high-tech industry is facing a rapidly changing business environment with increasingly fierce international competition, the talents it requires must not only possess the special technical background of the industry, but also must improve their management capabilities and information technology without delay. In terms of teacher arrangement, we will integrate teacher resources from inside and outside the school, or hire experienced experts and scholars from industry and academia to teach in collaboration with our professors or individually. 

4. Conduct graduate flow survey

In recent years, the Ministry of Education's evaluation of higher education, whether it is school evaluation or department evaluation, has paid increasing attention to learning effectiveness, among which the employment status of graduates is one of the learning effectiveness evaluation items. The graduate flow survey is an important basis for establishing tracking of student learning effectiveness indicators. It has positive benefits for academic program evaluation and even curriculum revision. In response to the Ministry of Education's request that each school conduct a survey on the flow of students after graduation, and taking into account the department's curriculum revision opinions, it is planned to hire assistants or work-study students to continue to conduct surveys on the flow of graduates. 

5. Summary

The increased credit fee income after this adjustment to the credit fee standards is mainly based on the four major categories of expenditures mentioned above. In addition to adjusting the credit fee plan, the Asset Management Specialty Class will continue to work hard to promote various measures to increase revenue and reduce expenditure to improve operational efficiency, so that this group of special classes can develop steadily and achieve the goal of sustainable operation.

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