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Chapter IV Organization and Meeting
Article 18
To manage its academic affairs, student affairs, general affairs, internship, information, research and development, continuing education, special education, cooperative education, and technology exchange, senior high schools shall establish offices(sections)as its tier-one units which may govern divisions(programs and disciplines)as tier-two units for its operations.
Article 19
Senior high school may appoint one vice principal; one director or program director on its tier-one units; one program chairperson, and coordinator in its tier-two units.
The vice principal shall be appointed by the principal among those who served in a position of tier-one program director or higher position. Tier-one director or program director, tier-two program chairperson or coordinator shall all be appointed by the principal among full-time teachers, with the exception of the general affairs division to be headed by teachers on part time basis or by staff members on full-time basis.
Tier- two department chief shall be appointed by the principal among teachers on part time basis or among staff members on full-time basis, with the exception of department chiefs of the general affairs division to be appointed among staff members on full-time basis, and the exception of department chiefs in life mentoring of the student affairs division to be appointed by personnel with counseling competencies to serve in full time basis.
Article 20
Senior high school shall establish a counseling office(section)managed by full-time counseling teachers, who are selected by the principle among candidates with professional counseling competencies.
A senior high school’s counseling office(section)shall be headed by one director, who will be selected by the principal among full-time counseling teachers, to serve on a part time basis.
A senior high school shall establish a counseling committee with a committee chair acted by the principal on a part time basis; other committee members are selected by the principal from faculty and staff to serve on a part time basis; the principal shall be in charge of coordinating counseling works of all offices(sections)and shall appoint the director of the counseling office(section)to serve as the executive secretary on a part time basis.
Article 21
Senior high school shall establish a library with a full-time director with professional competencies selected by the principal; if necessary, a full-time teacher with professional competencies may be appointed to serve as the director on a part time basis.
Article 22
Public senior high school shall establish a personnel management branch according to relevant laws and conduct personnel management matters accordingly.
Private senior high school shall establish a personnel office or appoint a personnel officer; qualified member may be appointed by the principal among full-time teachers to serve on part time basis or among staff members to serve on full-time.
Article 23
Public senior high school shall establish budget, accounting and statistics(BAS)branch according to relevant laws to conduct budgeting, accounting and statistics matters accordingly.
Private senior high school shall establish accounting office and appoint accounting personnel according the Private School Act and its relevant regulations.
Article 24
Regulations governing the establishment of organizations and standards of staffing shall be stipulated by the central competent authority.
If nursing teachers, who are employed according to regulations before this Act is enacted, continue to serve after this Act is enacted, their staffing standards shall follow regulation stipulated in the previous Paragraph.
Article 25
Senior high schools shall conduct school affairs meetings to resolve the following matters:
1. Important matters, such as school development and campus planning.
2. Important rules and regulations stipulated according to the laws or for one’s duty.
3. Academic affairs, student affairs, general affairs, and other important matters.
4. Other matters which shall be resolved at school affairs meetings according to applicable laws.
Members of the school affairs meeting include: the principal, the supervisor of each unit, representatives of full-time or all teachers, representatives of administrative staff members, representatives of the parents’ association, and elected student representatives. The number, ratio, and recruitment of members and resolution approaches shall be determined by each school. The number of members of any gender shall not be less than 1/3 of the total number of members; the number of student representatives shall not be less than 8% of the total number of members. Relevant information shall be reported to the competent authority for future review.
In determining the proportion of elected student representatives mentioned above, the figure shall be rounded up to the nearest integer.
School affairs meetings shall be convened and hosted by the principal at least once every semester. The principal shall convene a school affairs meeting within 15 days from the date of a special meeting request of over 1/5 of the meeting representatives.
The amendments to paragraph 2 and paragraph 3 made on May 11, 2021 take effect on October 1, 2021.
Article 26
Besides committees that shall be established in accordance with the law, to promote and develop school affairs, a senior high school may establish all kinds of committees based on the general meeting’s resolution; the composition and mission of those committees shall be prescribed by each school.
Article 27
Senior high school shall establish a parents’ association, comprising of parents of the students. The parents’ association shall be named after its school. The regulations governing the organization’s rules and regulations, mission, number of committee members, ways of recruiting committee members, term, election and recall, procedural rules, source of funds, financial management and operation, and other relevant issues shall be stipulated by the corresponding competent authorities.