Are there professional threshold standards for those teaching media literacy in Taiwan colleges & universities? Based on a survey of career and academic backgrounds of 72 instructors of the course in the school year 2014-2015, this paper gives a telling picture of the teaching reality. A majority of these instructors do hold Ph.D. degrees, and mostly related with media and communication, while quite some others are armed with hands-on experiences in media practices. Various bipolar tendencies still persist, however, in organizational managements of human resources for teaching the course. The status of media literacy therefore remains ambivalent in Taiwan higher education.