National Sun Yat-sen University Regulations on the Establishment of the Center for the Humanities 

Amended in the 1st Center of the Humanities  Meeting of the 2017 academic year on August 30th, 2018

Clause 1: General Principles

Article 1:  This article is established according to Clause 2 Article 6 of National Sun Yat-sen University’s Organization Regulations.

Article 2: The research center is named “National Sun Yat-sen Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences” (abbreviated as “the research center” below). The research center is established by the university as a first rate research center.

Article 3: The foci of the research center are as below. The first, to promote national and international collaboration, therefore universalizing humanities and social sciences research. The second, to strengthen the university’s international research collaborations and relations. The third, to promote humanities and social sciences research exchange within southeast Asia. The fourth, is to aid the visibility and development of English language lectures in humanities and social sciences within the university. The fifth, to provide a platform for research exchange of humanities and social sciences in southern Taiwan.

Clause 2: Organization and Management

Article 4: The research center will establish an academic sector and an administrative sector, separately responsible for projects, publication, promotion and communication, and collaboration with national research institutes, academics, and experts.

Clause 3: Budgeting and Allocation

Article 5: Within the research center the director will manage and organize affairs. The director will be a selected professor or researcher within related fields who is referred by the dean of the college and approved by the university president. The director is appointed concurrently with the dean and has a same term period. When a director’s term is over or if a director steps down the director is expected to appoint the next director with the university president’s approval. The director’s previous evaluation results serve as reference qualifications for the next consecutive term. The university’s research sector will execute cancellation of the center with approval from the university president in the case of three months without completing appointment of a director.

Article 6: The research center is divided into the academic sector and the administration sector. Each sector is lead by a full-time professor referred by the director and approved by the university president.

Article 7: The research center has established an academic advisory board for the purpose of promoting international research across universities through appointing experts and researchers and providing research funding from research projects

Article 8: The research center arranges tasks for research development, professors and advisors from within and outside the university in humanities and social sciences are implemented as faculty through the director to establish an advisory board for reviews and evaluation. The board members within the university are not given employment while the board members from off campus are given attendance fees and transportation fees.

Article 9: The research center will have two administrative assistants to process the paperwork and accounts, hold conferences and projects, and to coordinate, communicate, and organize the tasks and results that have been executed.

Article 10: The research center’s accounts and approval, checks and balances, execution, and safekeeping of finances will be executed according to university regulations. The finances are self-provided by the research center.

Clause 4: Meetings and Assembly

Article 11:  When the research center is executing duties such as research projects and administrative obligations the center will hold regular compulsory meetings for budgeting considerations, progress updates, performance evaluations, and development and promotion of the center. The meeting will be arranged by the director, deputy director, and head of each sector of the research center with the director as moderator. The research center is also obligated to hold intermittent research meetings and work meetings.

Article 12: The research center will regularly arrange for consultation from the advisory board. The director will be responsible for the congregation of the meeting and other meetings when  necessary.

Clause 5: Supplementary Clauses

Article 13: The research center is obligated to submit annual performance and progress reports.

Article 14: The research center is obligated to conduct self-evaluation and accept evaluation from the university annually. The terms and procedures for evaluation will be conducted according to relevant regulations. 

Article 15: Regulations for the research center including operations, management, self-evaluation, assembly, and project development are separately established.

Article 16: These regulations and amendments have been passed by the Center of the Humanities and Social Sciences committee and will be implemented once approved by the president of the university.

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第一章 總則
第一條 本辦法根據「國立中山大學組織規程」第二章第六條所規定訂定之。
第二條 本研究中心定名為「國立中山大學人文研究中心」（以下簡稱本研究中心），為本校編制內一級研究中心。
第三條 本研究中心宗旨如下:
一、促進國內外學術交流，整合人文社會學科研究，以提昇人文社會學科之學術水準。
二、 強化本校與國外大學學術合作關係。
三、 提倡東亞地區人文社會學科之聯繫。
四、 協助發展本校人文社會學科領域英語授課之能見度。
五、 提供南部地區人文社會學科領域交流之平台。
第二章 組織與執掌
第四條 本研究中心設置學術組與行政組，分別負責計劃、出版之推動及國內外研究機構學者專家聯繫和交流。
第三章 編制及預算
第五條 本研究中心設置主任一人，綜理中心事務。主任由學院院長推薦校內相關領域之教授或研究員，經校長同意後聘請兼任之，與院長任期同。主任任期屆滿或卸任， 應主動推薦接續人選並簽請校長同意後聘請兼任之。主任之續聘條件，應參考中心前次評鑑結果。三個月內未完成主任聘任者，由本校研發處簽請校長同意後裁撤。
第六條 本研究中心分設學術組與行政組，各置組長一人，由中心主任推薦專任教師簽請校長遴聘之。
第七條 本研究中心為推廣跨國、跨校之研究，設置學術研究委員會，得聘請專案特約研究員、副研究員及助理研究員若干人，並由專案研究計劃中支給研究費。
第八條 本研究中心為規劃研究發展工作，由中心主任聘請人文社會學科領域之專任教師及校外諮詢委員若干人，得設置諮詢委員會，審議重要事項以備參考。校內委員均為無給職，但校外諮詢委員得酌支出席費及交通費。
第九條 本研究中心設置行政助理二人，處理本中心業務、帳務控管、協助舉辦會議及活動等事項，並協調、聯繫及收集各項工作之執行成果。
第十條 本研究中心之經費預算稽核、收支、執行、財物保管等事項，均依本校規定辦理。經費由中心自給自足。
第四章 會議
第十一條 本研究中心於執行計劃研究及行政業務等工作計劃時，為求審議編列預算、掌握工作進度、評量各項績效及其他相關中心發展及推動事宜，應定期召集業務會議。業務會議由中心主任、副主任、各組組長組織之，以中心主任為主席。本中心另得不定期召開研究會議及工作會議。
第十二條 本研究中心諮詢委員會議應定期召集，由中心主任擔任召集人，必要時得另行召集會議。
第五章
附則 第十三條 本研究中心每年需繳交成果報告。
第十四條 本研究中心每年需做自我評鑑及接受校方之評鑑，評鑑項目及方式依相關規定辦理。
第十五條 本研究中心各項作業規定、管理辦法、自我評鑑辦法、議事規則及發展計劃另訂之。
第十六條 本辦法經人文研究中心會議通過，簽請校長核可後實施，修正時亦同。