Building a Strong Industry-Academia Network

1. Recruit distinguished international scholars as endowed or visiting professors, and invite outstanding alumni to return as faculty members.
2. Organize regular academic and professional seminars, while continuing to advance the department's internationalization goals.
3. Strengthen industry-academia collaboration, and leverage partnerships with the business community to improve curriculum design and development.
4. Enhance alumni engagement, and leverage these connections to provide alumni with meaningful career development opportunities.

Designing Professional Curricula for the New Economy

Business transaction models continue to evolve alongside advances in AI and cloud technology. At the forefront of AI is machine learning, which uses algorithms to extract insights from large datasets and simulate human intelligence. However, under the traditional accounting education framework, accounting professionals generally lack the cross-disciplinary skills needed to engage with information technology, and the limited foundational IT training they receive leaves them ill-equipped to bridge the gap to AI and cloud-based systems.

Given that programming and algorithms are the building blocks of tomorrow's world, leveraging these tools effectively requires integrating knowledge across multiple disciplines. With "integration-oriented" accounting professionals as our educational goal, the department has developed curricula across four core tracks: (1) Accounting and Information Integration, (2) Accounting and Finance Integration, (3) Accounting and Law Integration, and (4) Accounting and Management Integration. Beyond these, we have introduced bridging courses tailored specifically for accounting students, guiding them into Python programming and applying code to solve accounting problems — equipping them with both professional accounting expertise and the technical ability to communicate across disciplines.

Looking ahead, the department will further leverage Tunghai's Cloud Innovation College to offer hands-on and entrepreneurship-focused courses in cloud technology, the new economy, and cross-disciplinary applications. Through a partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), we will train full-time faculty as seed instructors, integrating resources from both Tunghai University and Amazon to develop an advanced programming course for accounting students — laying a solid foundation for their digital learning journey into the technology domain.