University Act Article 9

For the appointment of a new president to a public university, the university shall organize a presidential search committee ten months prior to the expiry of the term of office of the incumbent president, or within two months after the post becomes vacant through some other cause. After being selected through an open selection procedure, the new president shall be officially appointed by the Ministry of Education or by the local government that has jurisdiction over that university.The presidential search committee referred to in the preceding paragraph shall have proportionate numbers of members meeting the following criteria who are selected as follows:1.Representatives of the university, nominated at a university council meeting, shall comprise two fifths of the full committee.2.Representatives of the university’s alumni who have been recommended by the university and impartial, upright members of society shall jointly comprise two fifths of the full committee.3.The rest of the committee members shall be selected as representatives by the Ministry of Education, or by the local government of the place where the university is located.The regulations governing the organization and operations of the presidential search committee for appointing the president of a public university, and other matters to be observed, shall be prescribed by the Ministry of Education for national universities, but by the local government for a university established by a special municipality, county, or city where the university is located.The president of a private university shall be selected by a presidential search committee organized for that purpose by the board of directors of the university, and the selected candidate may be appointed after being reported to and approved by the Ministry of Education.Persons of any one gender must comprise at least one-third of the presidential search committee referred to in the preceding paragraph.The term of office for the president of a public university shall be four years, and the president may be reappointed upon the expiry of their term of office; the procedure for a president’s reappointment, the number of times a president may be reappointed, and different ways in which a president might leave office before the end of their term of office shall be stipulated in the charter and by-laws of each university; the term of office of the president of a private university and details regarding a president’s reappointment shall be stipulated in the charter and by-laws of each private university.The Ministry of Education and local governments that have jurisdiction over universities shall carry out an evaluation of the presidents of the respective universities one year prior to the expiry of their term of office, and the results of the evaluation shall serve as a reference for universities’ decisions on whether to reappoint those presidents for a further term.During the performance evaluation conducted by the Ministry of Education or the relevant local government as referred to in the preceding paragraph, the president of a public university either expresses their intention to not be reappointed, or fails to pass the reappointment selection, shall be ineligible to participate in the selection process for the next president at their current university.