Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology
university in Tainan
Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology (STUST; Chinese: 南臺科技大學; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lâm-tâi Kho-ki Tāi-ha̍k) is a private university in Yongkang District, Tainan, Taiwan.
History
The university was originally founded in 1969 as Nan-Tai Junior College of Engineering. In 1990, it became Nan-Tai Junior College of Engineering and Business. In 1996 it was upgraded to Nan-Tai Institute of Technology and again to Southern Taiwan University of Technology in 1999. In 2007 it was upgraded to Southern Taiwan University and in 2012 it became Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology.
Administration
Chairmen
Wu San-lien (1969–1988)
Hsin Wen-bing (1988–1999)
Kao Ching-yuen (1999–2014)
Cheng Kao-huei (2014–2017)
Chang Hsin-hsiung (since 2017)
Presidents
Hsin Wen-bing (1969–1988)
Chang Hsin-hsiung (1989–2007)
Tai Chien (2007–2017)
Lu Deng-maw (2017–2023)
Wu Cheng-wen (2023–2024)
Chou De-kuang (acting; 2024–present)
Motto
The university's motto is Trust, justice, sincerity, honesty.
"Trust, justice, sincerity, and honesty are the basic principles of our lives. They are principles revered by ancient Eastern as well as by ancient Western sages. They are now regarded as our school motto. I hope all of us will strive to fulfill them." —Hsin Wen-bing, 1969
Faculties
College of Engineering
College of Business
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
College of Digital Design
Chinese Language Center
The Chinese Language Center at STUST was established for international students and visiting foreigners in Taiwan to help them learn Chinese as a foreign language.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology” is university in Tainan. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Southern, Taiwan and University, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “university in Tainan” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7570538. The first chronological checks are 1969, 1990, 1996 and 1999.
Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.
- Event chronology
- Institutional context
- Locating named record creators
Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology primary sources, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology archive and Southern research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology”?
- Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
- Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.