Ministry of Education’s Regulations Governing the Establishment of the National Professorship Article 2

Each National Chair Professorship shall be awarded to a full-time university professor who, on the date set as the deadline for universities to submit recommendations to the Ministry, is aged seventy years or less; to whom none of the situations referred to in the subparagraphs of Article 14, Paragraph 1 of the Teachers’ Act or in the subparagraphs of Article 15, Paragraph 1 of the Teachers’ Act pertain; and who when recommended or selected is still actively engaged in ongoing academic research and teaching, held in high esteem, playing a leading role in shaping the direction of academic thought, and an exemplary role model in the academic community. In addition, the person shall satisfy one of the following eligibility requirements:1.Be an Academician of Academia Sinica;2.Have received a Ministry of Education Academic Award at least three years earlier; or3.Have some outstanding achievement equivalent to being an Academician of Academia Sinica, or to having received a Ministry of Education Academic Award, in an academic or professional field in Taiwan or overseas.The current president of a university is not permitted to be one of the candidates recommended or selected for the National Chair Professorship referred to in the preceding paragraph.