By Rachel Lin and Dennis Xie / Staff reporter, with staff writerFaculty and students from several universities yesterday protested outside the Ministry of Education to demand that it require public universities to establish budget auditing committees. Budget auditing members should not be considered to be in opposition to a university president, National Taiwan University (NTU) professor Wang Li-sheng (王立昇) said, adding that he has worked on the NTU budget auditing committee. Tainan National University of the Arts professor Wu Yung-yi (吳永毅) said that he often sees disputes regarding the management of school funds. A democratic campus needs to come with a democratic system of budget auditing, he said. “An effective auditing system of university funds can be an example of exercising democracy on campus, as it affects not only faculty and students’ rights, but also the future of national education,” he said.
