Also signing the MAC is Shu-Te University President Dr. Yuan-Hsiang Chu (seated along with Pascual. With them are other members of the delegation both from University of the Philippines and Shu-Te University
The Southern Taiwan Universities Alliance is an academic organization composed of National Sun Yat-Sen University, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, National Kaohsiung Normal University and Shu-Te University, which all aimed to developing regional higher education, quality human resource and better academic partnership in Taiwan and the whole Southeast Asian region, including the Philippines.