Regulations Governing the Establishment, Alterations, and Cessation of Operations of Junior Colleges and Institutions of Higher Education and of Their Branch Campuses and Divisions including Skills-based Senior High School Divisions Article 2
The terms used in these Regulations are defined as follows:1. Branch campus: refers to a campus of a junior college or institution of higher education established in another municipality, county or (city) away from the site of the main campus or overseas, and which is an independent educational institution with complete teaching and administrative units.2. Division: refers to a teaching, recruiting, or academia-industry cooperation unit set up by a junior college or an institution of higher education in addition to its main campus.3. Alterations: refers to renaming, change of institutional status, and/or amalgamations of junior colleges and institutions of higher education.(1) "renaming" refers to one of the following changes:1. An independent college being renamed an ordinary university, or an ordinary university being renamed an independent college.2. An institute of technology is renamed a university of science and technology, or a university of science and technology being renamed an institute of technology.3. An institute of technology being renamed an ordinary university or vice versa; an independent college being renamed a university of science and technology or vice versa; an institute of technology being renamed an independent college or vice versa; or an ordinary university being renamed a university of science and technology or vice versa.4. A junior college or institution of higher education that is renamed.(2) A "change of institutional status" refers to one of the following circumstances:1. A junior college becomes an institute of technology (with an affiliated junior college division).2. A junior college becomes an institute of technology, or an institute of technology that was renamed a university of science and technology becomes a junior college.3. A skills-based senior high school becomes a junior college, or a junior college becomes a skills-based senior high school.(3) An "amalgamation" refers to the following situations:1 .An amalgamation of a junior college or institution of higher education and any branch campus, division, junior college division, or skills-based senior high school division it has and another junior college or institution of higher education together with any branch campus(es), division(s), junior college division(s), and skills-based senior high school division(s) it has.2. An amalgamation of the incorporated legal entity which operates an educational institution (hereunder referred to as a “school endowment corporation”) and a private junior college or institution of higher education of another school endowment corporation.The regulation set out in Subparagraph 3, Item 1 of the previous paragraph regarding renaming is not applicable to a religious college which was established in accordance with Article 8 of the Private School Law. The amalgamations referred to in Paragraph 1, Subparagraph 3, Item 3 are divided into the following 3 categories:1. A statutory amalgamation: one educational institution is selected to continue to legally exist after the amalgamation; each other junior college or institution of higher education involved in the amalgamation becomes part of the surviving educational institution, or a branch campus, division, junior college division, or skills-based senior high school division.2. An amalgamation creating a new entity (a so-called “consolidation”): after the amalgamation, a new junior college or institution of higher education is thereby established and it takes a new name. Each former junior college or institution of higher education becomes part of the newly established educational institution, or a branch campus, division, junior college division, or skills-based senior high school division.3. A junior college or institution of higher education changes its affiliation: A school endowment corporation takes over a private junior college or institution of higher education that was established by another school endowment corporation.
中文原文 專科以上學校及其分校分部專科部技術型高級中等學校部設立變更停辦辦法第2條
本辦法用詞，定義如下：
一、分校：指專科以上學校校本部所在以外之其他直轄市、縣（市）或境外單獨設立，並具有完整教學及行政單位之學校。
二、分部：指專科以上學校於校本部以外設立之教學、招生或產學合作單位。
三、變更：包括專科以上學校之改名、改制、合併：
（一）改名，指下列情形：1.獨立學院改名為一般大學或一般大學改名為獨立學院。
2.技術學院改名為科技大學或科技大學改名為技術學院。
3.技術學院與一般大學、獨立學院與科技大學、技術學院與獨立學院、一般大學與科技大學等大學校院互為改名。
4.專科以上學校變更學校名稱。
（二）改制，指下列情形：1.專科學校改制為技術學院（附設專科部）。
2.由專科學校改制之技術學院或由技術學院改名之科技大學改制為專科學校。
3.技術型高級中等學校改制為專科學校或專科學校改制為技術型高級中等學校。
（三）合併，指下列情形：1.專科以上學校連同其分校、分部、專科部或技術型高級中等學校部與其他學校連同其分校、分部、專科部或技術型高級中等學校部之合併。
2.學校財團法人（以下簡稱學校法人）合併其他學校法人所設私立專科以上學校。
前項第三款第一目之改名規定，不適用於依私立學校法第八條設立之宗教研修學院。
第一項第三款第三目之合併，分下列三類：
一、存續合併：合併後擇一校存續，其他學校變更為存續學校之一部分、分校、分部、專科部或技術型高級中等學校部。
二、新設合併：合併後成立一所新設專科以上學校，並另定新校名，原學校變更為新設學校之一部分、分校、分部、專科部或技術型高級中等學校部。
三、學校改隸：學校法人將其他學校法人所設私立學校，改隸為其所屬私立學校。
一、分校：指專科以上學校校本部所在以外之其他直轄市、縣（市）或境外單獨設立，並具有完整教學及行政單位之學校。
二、分部：指專科以上學校於校本部以外設立之教學、招生或產學合作單位。
三、變更：包括專科以上學校之改名、改制、合併：
（一）改名，指下列情形：1.獨立學院改名為一般大學或一般大學改名為獨立學院。
2.技術學院改名為科技大學或科技大學改名為技術學院。
3.技術學院與一般大學、獨立學院與科技大學、技術學院與獨立學院、一般大學與科技大學等大學校院互為改名。
4.專科以上學校變更學校名稱。
（二）改制，指下列情形：1.專科學校改制為技術學院（附設專科部）。
2.由專科學校改制之技術學院或由技術學院改名之科技大學改制為專科學校。
3.技術型高級中等學校改制為專科學校或專科學校改制為技術型高級中等學校。
（三）合併，指下列情形：1.專科以上學校連同其分校、分部、專科部或技術型高級中等學校部與其他學校連同其分校、分部、專科部或技術型高級中等學校部之合併。
2.學校財團法人（以下簡稱學校法人）合併其他學校法人所設私立專科以上學校。
前項第三款第一目之改名規定，不適用於依私立學校法第八條設立之宗教研修學院。
第一項第三款第三目之合併，分下列三類：
一、存續合併：合併後擇一校存續，其他學校變更為存續學校之一部分、分校、分部、專科部或技術型高級中等學校部。
二、新設合併：合併後成立一所新設專科以上學校，並另定新校名，原學校變更為新設學校之一部分、分校、分部、專科部或技術型高級中等學校部。
三、學校改隸：學校法人將其他學校法人所設私立學校，改隸為其所屬私立學校。