Huachiew Chalermprakiet University is a university in Samut Prakan Province, Thailand. It is organized into 13 faculties and a graduate school. Huachiew comes from Teochew dialect and means 'overseas Chinese'. It is the name the foundation uses as the name of the foundation's hospital and college.
History
Huachiew Chalermprakiet University was founded by the Poh Tek Sieng Tung Overseas Chinese Foundation, which is the largest charitable Chinese organization in Thai society. Its policy is to support education in order to develop human resources in a project referred to as "Service to Society and Educational Development". Huachiew Chalermprakiet University has an institutional history of over fifty years, having a developmental path that can be divided into three periods: 1941: Huachiew Hospital Midwifery School established with the aim of producing midwifery supervisors; they are to have knowledge and ability in nursing and midwifery, which is to be applied to the benefit of society and nation. 1982: Poh Tek Tung Foundation Committee, conscious of the work of the government in developing the nation in accordance with the Fourth National Economic and Social Development Plan, expands the former Huachiew Hospital into a general hospital offering curative services and advice to people requesting services in every medical field, and in addition, expanding the midwifery school into a nursing college where the Faculty of Nursing offers a Bachelor of Science program in nursing and midwifery and names the college "Huachiew College", and later establishing a Faculty of Social Work, with a Bachelor of Social Work program, as an additional faculty. 1990: Poh Tek Tung Foundation's 80th anniversary. The foundation resolves to elevate the status of Huachiew College to that of university and receives approval from the University Bureau for its foundation. It becomes "Huachiew Chalermprakiet University" on the 11 May 1992.
Goals
"Studying, so as to be of service to society" Huachiew Chalermprakiet University was founded by the Poh Tek Sieng Tung Overseas Chinese Foundation, or the Poh Tek Tung Foundation, to creating equality at the level of higher education, and promoting a virtuous culture in accordance with a foundation of Buddhism and ancestor worship. Graduates of the university are to be people of wisdom and virtue, are to be absolute exemplars of intellectuals, ready to devote themselves to social service, for the happiness of global citizens in the four corners of the earth.
Vision
Huachiew Chalermprakiet University is to be a medium-sized university with academic excellence at an international level that produces university graduates equipped with knowledge and virtue and, at the same time, that develops the quality and enhances the experience of its instructors, builds awareness of the obligation and duty to create harmony and agreement among all members of the institution, and creates awareness, to a good level, of being responsible in relation to all sectors of society; this includes efficient management that accords with the philosophy of Sufficiency Economy.
Practice
1. Adhering to the six virtues of diligence, perseverance, frugality, compassion, honesty, and filial piety. 2. Practising the three tenets of the philosophy of Sufficiency Economy: knowing how much is enough, being reasonable, and having immunity. 3. Studying, so as to be of service to society.
