Fan Sun-lu

Fan Sun-lu (Chinese: 范巽綠; born 3 October 1952) is a Taiwanese politician who served on the Legislative Yuan from 1996 to 2000, when she was appointed vice minister of education, serving in that capacity until 2006. She was reappointed to the position in September 2018.

Fan San-lu

MLY
范巽綠
Fan in June 2015
Political Deputy Minister of Education of the Republic of China
In office
September 2018 – May 2020
MinisterYeh Jiunn-rong
Yao Leeh-ter (acting)
Pan Wen-chung
In office
20 May 2000 – January 2006
MinisterOvid Tzeng
Huang Jong-tsun
Tu Cheng-sheng
Member of the Legislative Yuan
In office
1 February 1996 – 20 May 2000
ConstituencyRepublic of China
Personal details
Born (1952-10-03) 3 October 1952
Taipei, Taiwan
Political partyDemocratic Progressive Party
Alma materTunghai University
Tamkang University

Education

Fan attended Taipei First Girls' High School, and studied political science at Tunghai University. Later, she earned a master's degree in American studies from Tamkang University.[1]

Political career

Fan ran the joint Taipei City Council campaign of tangwai activists Lin Cheng-chieh, Chen Shui-bian, Frank Hsieh and Kang Shui-mu in 1981.[2] Fan was elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1995 and 1998 via party list proportional representation as a representative of the Democratic Progressive Party.[1][3] As a legislator, she advocated for the preservation of historical monuments damaged by the 1999 Jiji earthquake.[4] Fan took a particular interest in the media of Taiwan, and supported the end of media monopolies, in a market that better protected its consumers.[5][6][7] Hsu Hsin-liang considered Fan for the position of vice president on the independent ticket he was forming for the 2000 election. She rejected the offer, and Hsu selected Josephine Chu instead.[8] Chen Shui-bian won the election, and subsequently Fan was to join the Ministry of Education as political deputy minister under Ovid Tzeng.[3][9]

Shortly after taking office, Fan announced that the ministry had begun working toward a plan to rebuild schools forced to close by the Jiji earthquake.[10] As reconstruction efforts continued into 2001, the Chen administration attempted to rebuild an elementary school on public land administered by National Taiwan University. Fan criticized the university for barring the construction.[11] After students at National Cheng Kung University were subject to a police raid targeting distribution of pirated media in April 2001, Fan led a task force charged with investigating the situation.[12] In May, legislator Yang Wen-hsin accused Fan of political interference favoring Changyi Group, a construction firm that had been selected to rebuild schools damaged by the Jiji earthquake.[13] The next year, Fan oversaw the launch of a program that sent men of conscription age overseas as teachers in private schools run by the Ministry of Education.[14] In October, Fan visited the United States and met Secretary of Education Rod Paige to discuss a teacher exchange program between Taiwan and the United States.[15] Though she supported initiatives to increase English-language proficiency,[16] and had previously announced an increase in hires of foreign English-language teachers as part of the Challenge 2008 initiative,[17] Fan stated in February 2003 that the education ministry would be reducing the number of foreign English teachers on its payroll in favor of funding the training of teachers instead.[18] Later that month, Fan announced that the ministry was exploring ways for foreign spouses to learn Chinese, and planned to remove legal barriers to higher educational institutions for members of transnational partnerships.[19] Her position was the subject of speculation by women's rights organizations following a May 2004 cabinet reshuffle in which Tzeng's successor Huang Jong-tsun was replaced by Tu Cheng-sheng.[20] In August 2005, the education ministry lifted a portion of the dress code prescribed to students, a move Fan supported because schools teach students "to be responsible members of society by making decisions for themselves and thinking on their own."[21] In December, Fan was again accused of interference, this time by Yang Chiu-hsing, regarding quality of new construction at Fong Shan Junior High School in Fongshan, Kaohsiung.[22] Fan stepped down from the Ministry of Education in January 2006.[23][24]

She was placed on the Democratic Progressive Party's party list for the 2008 legislative elections, but was not elected via proportional representation.[25] After losing the 2008 elections, Fan became director of the Kaohsiung Bureau of Education.[26] In September 2018, Fan returned to the Ministry of Education as political deputy minister. She resigned the position in January 2019,[27] but elected to return to her position days later, as Pan Wen-chung, the Tsai Ing-wen administration's first education minister, returned to office.[28] Fan remained in her post through May 2020.[29]

In June 2020, the Tsai Ing-wen presidential administration nominated Fan to serve as a member of the Control Yuan.[30]

Personal

Fan is married to Chang Fu-chung.[13][22]

References
  1. "Fan Sun-lu (3)". Legislative Yuan. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  2. Pan, Han-shen (29 May 2007). "The DPP goes from green to black". Taipei Times. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  3. "Fan Sun-lu (4)". Legislative Yuan. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  4. Yu, Sen-lun (5 October 1999). "Taiwan historic sites scrutinized". Taipei Times. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  5. Chu, Monique (11 January 2000). "Legislators attack GIO's remedy for cable TV wars". Taipei Times. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  6. Chu, Monique (3 February 2000). "Cable titans cash in on connections". Taipei Times. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  7. Yu, Sen-lun (13 February 2000). "Watchdog group". Taipei Times. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  8. Low, Stephanie (21 November 1999). "Hsu chooses New Party running mate". Taipei Times. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  9. Low, Stephanie (11 May 2000). "Teachers' group supports reform". Taipei Times. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  10. Lin, Mei-chun (4 June 2000). "Consensus reached for school reconstruction work". Taipei Times. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  11. Chuang, Chi-ting (20 March 2001). "NTU slams government over school relocation plan". Taipei Times. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  12. "Students get support in MP3 case". Taipei Times. 17 April 2001. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  13. Lin, Mei-chun (24 May 2001). "Profits said to be at the root of 921 construction spat". Taipei Times. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  14. Huang, Sandy (30 January 2002). "Conscript teachers go abroad to serve". Taipei Times. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  15. "US agrees with plan to exchange trained teachers". Taipei Times. 3 November 2002. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  16. Chuang, Jimmy (19 July 2002). "Official says English should be job requirement". Taipei Times. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  17. "MOE to snap up foreign teachers". 7 January 2003. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  18. Chang, Yun-ping (6 February 2003). "Ministry grapples with English-education plan". Taipei Times. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  19. "Foreign spouses could be sent to language classes". Taipei Times. 26 February 2003. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  20. Yiu, Cody (7 May 2004). "Women's groups eye appointments". Taipei Times. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  21. Mo, Yan-chih (22 August 2005). "Hair flies in debate over ban on schools' regulations". Taipei Times. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  22. "DPP officials urged to resolve spat". Taipei Times. 25 December 2005. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  23. Ku, Er-Teh (6 January 2006). "All aboard, all aboard the scandal bandwagon". Taipei Times. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  24. Bishop, Mac William (17 January 2006). "English teacher plan falls short". Taipei Times. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  25. "〈快訊〉不分區立委開票結果 一覽表" (in Chinese). TVBS. 12 January 2008. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  26. Huang, Liang-chieh; Hung, Tin-hung; Chin, Jonathan (8 January 2016). "Sampan shipwrighting preserved at Cijin center". Taipei Times. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  27. Lin, Rachel (14 January 2019). "Education groups worried as deputy ministers quit". Taipei Times. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
  28. Maxon, Ann (15 January 2019). "Pan returns to launch policies he planned". Taipei Times. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
  29. "Microsoft empowers millions of students and educators in Taiwan to learn digitally with Office 365 and Teams". Microsoft. 26 May 2020. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  30. "Control Yuan nominees confirmed". 23 June 2020. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
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