Study for Creating Characteristics of Men of Ideas and Environmental Expectation in University

[[abstract]]In the past centuries, the ideas and goals of universities have become diversified and gotten complicated. Thus, the role of university has been constantly changed accordingly. The universities have been involved in many 2-aspect values and conflicts occurred in the society, even have to compromise to the situations. Nevertheless, universities still shall maintain their values and the ideology of education which shall not be various with time. The goals of this study are: What are the characteristics and ideas equipped by the men of ideas, who are educating by the universities? How does the educating environment in campus would affect the creating of men of ideas characteristics? What the university students expect to the environment of campus? Furthermore, based on the results regarding to the students’ expectations of campus, the education values of environment and the guides to create learning environment will be discussed. Following to the above mentioned questions, the study will focus on “people”. First, the content analysis will be based on the “What kind of men of ideas shall be created from universities?” The literatures can be divided into following 11 groups: the nature of university, the ideas of university, university’s education policy, university’s responsibilities, accomplishments, culture, citizenship and morality, learning successfully, university’s knowledge communities, well-educated persons, and the characteristics of men of ideas. Based on the content analysis results, 5 main aspects and 18 features of men of ideas are identified. And the “Survey for university campus special environment and the creating of men of ideas” questionnaire is designed and survey is conducted to students in National Taiwan Normal University. The data from questionnaires are collected by cluster sampling and analyzed statistically in order to discuss the relationship among “personal background”, “expectation of campus environment” and “expected aspects of characteristics of men of ideas.” The results derived from questionnaires are as followed: 1. In average, the top 3 learning environments which students involving the most are, in sequence, classroom lecturing, activities participating and studying in library. 2. The is a significant participation level of different learning environments with respect to “sex”, “experiences of students’ clubs” and “experiences of living in dorms”. And the is no significant participation level of learning environment with respect to “studying groups ”. 3. The most expected characteristics of men of ideas to be created are, in sequence, professionalism, social relations, society, morality and academics. 4. Overall, there is a significant difference on the level of expectations of creating the characteristics of men of ideas with respect to “sex”, “experiences of students’ clubs” and “experiences of living in dorms” and there is no significant difference on the level of expectations of creating the characteristics of men of ideas with respect to “studying groups”, “years”, and “experience of working par time”. 5. In all the learning environments in university, analyze the level of characteristics of men of ideas which students expect to be. 6. In all the learning environments in university, analyze the expectation aspects of environment evaluation from students. 7. Students believe that the most appropriate environment for creating men of ideas is participating group activities. 8. Analyze the aspects regarding to the expected environment evaluation in order to creating the characteristics of being men of ideas. Finally, the results obtained above indicated that university shall balance both the hardware and software within a campus. Starting from education ideas, university shall identify its core values which shall not be changed with time and creating the men of ideas which can contribute to the society. As for the layout of a campus, the operation strategies regarding to the special environment aspects and creating a campus with sustainable thoughts are provided, hoping which would be helpful when designing and planning the university campus.