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Tsai Ping-kun
Taiwanese politician and educator (born 1959) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tsai Ping-kun (Chinese: 蔡炳坤; pinyin: Cài Bǐngkūn; born 1959) is a Taiwanese politician and educator.
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Early life and education
Tsai was born in Caotun, Nantou County, in 1959, and attended Taichung Municipal Taichung Industrial High School.[1] After graduating from National Dong Hwa University, he earned a master's degree in education in 1995 and, in 2006, his Ph.D. in education from National Chengchi University.[2][3] His doctoral dissertation was titled, "A study of the leadership of high school principals, organizational committment, and organizational effectiveness" (Chinese: 高中校長領導行為、教師組織承諾與學校組織效能關係之研究).[4]
Research on the relationship between the leadership behavior of high school principals, teachers' organizational commitment and school organizational effectiveness
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Career
Tsai was an independent politician before joining the Taiwan People's Party.[5] He worked for the Ministry of Education as a division chief and was deputy commissioner of the Taichung County Cultural Affairs Department.[6] Tsai served as president of the National Taichung First Senior High School through 2007,[7] becoming principal at Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School in 2008.[6] In 2010, Tsai was appointed deputy mayor of Taichung, alongside Hsiao Chia-chi, and under Jason Hu.[6][8] Between 2015 and 2016, Tsai was deputy minister of culture.[2][9] Tsai served as a mediator between the Executive Yuan and student protestors who organized the Anti-Black Box Curriculum Movement in 2015.[10] In March 2019, Tsai was appointed deputy mayor of Taipei by Ko Wen-je.[5]
Tsai was hospitalized on 11 July 2022 at Taipei's Renai City Hospital after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke.[11]
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