When it was first rumored that Chinan University might be set up in Pull, the local people, paying out of their own pockets, asked an engineering consulting firm to do a regional environmental survey, which they provided to the local officials as reference, in hopes of getting a lock on constructing the school in Puli.
當初傳出暨南大學要在埔里設立時，地方人士自掏腰包，請工程顧問公司做區域環境調查，提供給地方行政單位作參考，希望能爭取大學在埔里設立。