教育部近年來帶頭推動大學整併計畫,希望達成的目標有:加強學術和成本效益上的競爭力,進而面對加入WTO後市場化和國際化的競爭;整合資源達到知識創新的目的,以面對高等教育未來的挑戰。而儘管教育部提出許多經費補助及整併成功後,對於增設系所可解凍等誘因,大學整併案仍多只聞樓梯響。 目前惟一整併成功的案例為2000年2月正式掛牌的嘉義大學,是由嘉義技術學院及嘉義師範學院合併而成。該校對於整併政策具有指標性意義,教育部在補助經費、擴充軟硬體設備、增設系所方面也都給與很優厚的待遇。 因此本文除探討教育部大學整併政策本身的目標與手段是否恰當外,更以嘉義大學為例,藉由分析嘉義大學的系所發展、師資結構、校區分佈、經費結構,檢驗這一指標性的整併案,看其成效是否能達到教育部對外宣稱的預期目標。
Facing the critical juncture of globalize competition after participated WTO, the Ministry of Education in Taiwan wants to increase the academic influences of the National Universities in the world by means of merging different Universities in order to raise their academic quality and performance in the future. Although the Ministry of Education promised to help universities in funding and relieve the restrictions of departments-establishment, the policy of merging different universities is hard to carry out. The only ”success” case is National Chiayi University, which was established in February 2000 by merging two existed colleges in Chiayi-National Chiayi Institute of Technology (NCIT) and National Chiayi Teachers College (NCTC). The authors use this very case to analyze and evaluate the policy of merging different national universities in order to verify if the policy is workable.