Transcript Draft MOU UCB/AS/NTHU

Draft MOU
UCB/AS/NTHU
Summary to University Senate
11 January 2005
Exchange Programs
• Faculty & Postdocs – exchange, all fields
• Dual PhD Program – all fields
– Two supervisors, one student, joint project
– Satisfy UCB Requirement, award UCB PhD
– Satisfy NTHU Requirement, award NTHU PhD
• Summer Session, NTHU Undergraduates
– Core courses taught by NTHU professors (with added
compensation)
– Students who attend 3 full sessions can graduate in 3
years
– Total NTHU students in residence in summer: 1000
Physical Infrastructure for
NTHU Personnel
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Two half-floors of New Cambell Hall (5 yr)
Immediate rental in downtown Berkeley
Dormitory space for students in summer
Co-develop Richmond Field Station (3 yr)
Build or rent dormitories for NTHU visiting
faculty and other personnel in
Berkeley/Richmond area. Initial estimate
30 faculty members per year.
Mirror Site in Jhudong
• Forty hectares to be deeded to Tsing Hua
by Hsinchu County on 12 Jan 2005
• Tsing Hua Labs
• Space allocated to UCB for 5 years,
renewable indefinitely, to be furnished and
equipped at UCB expense
California Costs
• One-time capital costs of 2 half-floors of New Cambell
Hall, actual cost of constructing space plus 6 million USD
= 0.8 billion NTD? 50 years occupancy. (Compare with
AS deal with NTU.)
• One-time cost of equipping nano/info/bio labs: 0.3 billion
NTD?
• Co-occupancy of rented space in Richmond Field Station:
0.5 million USD per year = 0.1 billion NTD for 5 years?
• Rental of downtown Berkeley office space = 0.3 million
per year = 0.05 billion NTD for 5 years?
• 1000 summer session undergraduates who pay
California tuition and (negotiated) dormitory fees = 0.15
billion per year?
Funding
• Cost of New Campbell Hall construction: private
donations which President Lee will raise.
• Graduate student support for dual PhD program: special
university-university program to be supported by NSC at
0.15 billion NTD for first year.
• Undergraduate students: NTHU alumni interested in
supporting with scholarships
• Support for NTHU faculty and postdocs – NTHU
responsibility.
• Operating funds from government probably means
opening up program to other universities.