In 1961, at the second Yangmingshan Conference, a group of professors who had just returned from abroad decided that the Republic of China was the bastion of Chinese culture and that a research organization should be established as a center for the spreading of Chinese culture. As Chang had once been the Minister of Education and was an active promoter of education, the idea of a Chinese cultural college gradually began to take form.
民國五十年，許多旅居海外的教授學人，回國參加由行政院主辦、在陽明山舉行的第二次海外學人會談。與會者在會中建議，復興基地台灣是中華文化之所繫，應設立一個以發揚中華文化為宗旨的機構，作為全球研究中華學術的中心。