Fu Jen Catholic University Celebrates 99 Years of History and Leadership in Education

Author: Ian Su

Photo source: the main visual design of the 99th Anniversary Fair, https://www.instagram.com/fjcu_anniversary/

Historical backgrounds

Do you know it’s the 99-year establishment of Fu-Jen Catholic University (FJCU)? Heading toward a “CENTURY” of establishment, FJCU has brought its core values from Beijing, China to Taiwan and continued to bring GREAT impacts to the community in the domains of social welfare, sustainability, and special education.

Established in 1925, FJCU) was seen by those Catholics as an educational field connecting Chinese traditional culture and the whole world. Opposed and closed under the rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), FJCU was reestablished in 1961 in Taiwan and continued to leave legacies in the domains of social welfare, environmental sustainability, and special education and so on based on the core values of “Truth, Goodness, Beauty, and Holiness” to the Taiwanese community.

Photo source: FJCU’s establishment in Beijing, China http://140.136.169.239/aboutus/book/fjcu201910.pdf

A series of activities

In the year (2024) of the 99-year milestone, FJCU launched a series of activities: “10-year Special Education, 99-year of FJCU,” “Menstrual Equity Movement in the College of Foreign Languages,” and “FJCU President’s Historical Cycling Challenge, 99-year of FJCU,” implying FJCU’s implementation of its core values— Truth, Goodness, Beauty, and Holiness — in the domains of social welfare, environmental sustainability, and special education.

Photo source: Department of English Language and Literature 23rd Student Association (SA) Hosting the Menstrual Equity-related Events

Heading toward a century of establishment, “Menstrual Equity Movement in the College of Foreign Languages,” led by the Department of English Language and Literature 23rd Student Association (SA), held in March, served as one of FJCU’s milestones in ensuring students’ social welfare. The SA of the English Department has successfully raised public awareness of menstruation-related issues through lectures and social media advertisements. Following that case, the SA. were able to fundraise more than 4,000 NTD to buy menstrual necessities for students in need and to fund With Red for more legacies in the future.

Photo source: Mei-tseng Lin, the commissioner of Social Welfare Department, New Taipei City Government https://www.fju.edu.tw/focusDetail.jsp?focusID=2346&focusClassID=0

From May 13 to 14, 2024, FJCU curated an anniversary exhibition on its dedication to special education as part of the “10-year Special Education, 99-year of FJCU” celebration. The exhibition includes interactive activities for audiences to experience the lives of students having difficulties in learning. Being invited to the exhibition, Mei-tseng Lin, the commissioner of the Social Welfare Department, New Taipei City Government, praises that FJCU has been valuing students having difficulties in education so much. It provides them proper education resources and the feasible assistance, thoroughly implementing the vision of special education.