行政大樓 Administrative Building
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to National Central University. In order for you to get a general idea of various aspects of our university, we have prepared this brief tour for you, and the junior class of English majors will serve as tour guides, introducing to you various points of interest on our campus. We hope you will enjoy our presentations.
Here, we are standing in front of the nerve center of the university, the first building that comes in sight as you enter our front gate, that is, the administrative building. The bee-hive exterior of the building demonstrates the detailed divisions of labor within this building. On the first floor you will find the information desk as well as the Office of General Affairs. A giant aerial map of the university is displayed right in front of the information desk to give visitors’ a bird’s eye view of the campus. As the office of general affairs is responsible for all maintenance jobs, construction projects, and the university budget, it is also located on the first floor for convenience’s sake. Tuition payments, reservations of auditoriums, procurement and purchases, allocation of salaries and scholarships—all of these important affairs are handled there.
The second floor houses the offices of the president, the vice president, the president’s chief of staff, and part of the Office of Academic Affairs. The personnel office is also located on the second floor. As you can see, this floor deals mainly with faculty and staff affairs. For students who need to handle registration or grades or graduation requirements, they have to go to the third floor to the Office of Academic Affairs. This office gets very busy at the beginning of a new semester when lots of students return to the university for registration or transcripts. At the other end of the Office of Academic Affairs is the Office of Research and Development, which is in charge of managing the great number of research projects that are being done by faculty members.
With the expansion of the faculty and student population, the divisions within the administrative building are also expanding. In order to accommodate the traffic that goes through it, it has recently re-arranged the space and redecorated the interior of each office to create a more modern look. And to better serve the students, the Office of Student Affairs, which assists students with extra-curricular activities and provides career information and health care, has also been moved to the Old Library where there is more room. While the office facilities and appearances are enhanced, the efficiency of the offices seems to be lagging behind. Students still complain that they have to run around the building to get things done and that the staff’s attitude is often quite unfriendly. If the school can simplify the bureaucratic process and improve the staffs’ attitude, I believe the students would one day enjoy coming to the administrative building.
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to National Central University. In order for you to get a general idea of various aspects of our university, we have prepared this brief tour for you, and the junior class of English majors will serve as tour guides, introducing to you various points of interest on our campus. We hope you will enjoy our presentations.Here, we are standing in front of the nerve center of the university, the first building that comes in sight as you enter our front gate, that is, the administrative building. The bee-hive exterior of the building demonstrates the detailed divisions of labor within this building. On the first floor you will find the information desk as well as the Office of General Affairs. A giant aerial map of the university is displayed right in front of the information desk to give visitors’ a bird’s eye view of the campus. As the office of general affairs is responsible for all maintenance jobs, construction projects, and the university budget, it is also located on the first floor for convenience’s sake. Tuition payments, reservations of auditoriums, procurement and purchases, allocation of salaries and scholarships—all of these important affairs are handled there.
The second floor houses the offices of the president, the vice president, the president’s chief of staff, and part of the Office of Academic Affairs. The personnel office is also located on the second floor. As you can see, this floor deals mainly with faculty and staff affairs. For students who need to handle registration or grades or graduation requirements, they have to go to the third floor to the Office of Academic Affairs. This office gets very busy at the beginning of a new semester when lots of students return to the university for registration or transcripts. At the other end of the Office of Academic Affairs is the Office of Research and Development, which is in charge of managing the great number of research projects that are being done by faculty members.
With the expansion of the faculty and student population, the divisions within the administrative building are also expanding. In order to accommodate the traffic that goes through it, it has recently re-arranged the space and redecorated the interior of each office to create a more modern look. And to better serve the students, the Office of Student Affairs, which assists students with extra-curricular activities and provides career information and health care, has also been moved to the Old Library where there is more room. While the office facilities and appearances are enhanced, the efficiency of the offices seems to be lagging behind. Students still complain that they have to run around the building to get things done and that the staff’s attitude is often quite unfriendly. If the school can simplify the bureaucratic process and improve the staffs’ attitude, I believe the students would one day enjoy coming to the administrative building.