The study entitled “A Case Study: Patterns of Freshman Welcoming Activities at Faculty of Liberal Arts Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon” a mixedmethod research aims to investigate the patterns effects and students ’attitudes towards freshman welcoming activities. The participants in this study were the first- to the fourth-year university students from four majors including Applied Thai English for International Communication Hotel Management and Tourism. The participants can be divided into two groups: the participants of freshman welcoming activities (the first-year university students N = 132) and the organizers (the second-year to the fourth-year university students N = 65). The participants were 197 university students in total. The research instruments used for data collection were questionnaire and depth interview questions. For the questionnaire it can be divided into four parts: Part I concerning general information Part II and III related to types of welcoming activities and students’ attitudes towards the freshman welcoming activities organized in the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon and Part IV providing suggestions. Thirty voluntary participants were asked to provide in-depth information about freshman welcoming activities organized the Faculty of Liberal Arts Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon. The data obtained from the questionnaires were analyzed by using descriptive statistics: frequency percentage means and standard deviation. The data obtained from the in-depth interview were transcribed and analyzed by using textual analysis. Most participants in this study were female university students whose age group was 19 years old. The participants filled in their answers from 1 to 5 that is 5 strongly agree 4 agree 3 neutral 2 disagree and 1 strongly disagree to report their attitudes towards the freshman welcoming activities organized in the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon. The results of the study show that the participants highly agreed with the appropriateness and the types of freshman welcoming activities responding to the goals. The participants also added that they wanted to have a welcome feast (71.6%) followed by Baisri Sukwan welcome ceremony (64%) and booming activity for welcoming the new first-year university students (55.8%) respectively. The results of the study showed the participants ’awareness of security and willingness while taking part in the freshman welcoming activities. The students mostly agreed with positive effects of participating these kinds of activities: building relationship unity and responsibility. However they also moderately agreed that these activities could provide negative effectives: individual and organizational damage (for example losing publica image) According to the descriptive analysis and textual analysis the results showed that these university students were willing to take part in freshman welcome activities indicating that the activities were suitable supervised by related departments. They also suggested that there should be welcome activities based on their interests and suggestion box to achieve the goal. However one of the limitations of the study was the widespread of coronavirus resulting in the average score and standard deviation in some questionnaire items.

The objective of this research were to Study the training needs of the general public and entrepreneur groups. Professional service groups in Bangkok and suburbs Include Nonthaburi Province Samutprakarn province and Pathumthani province that operates in the workplace the study method used data collection by questionnaire construction and collecting information for meetings on various occasions the population and sample used in this study are General public and entrepreneurs In the BMA The sample consisted of 400 people selected by random sampling. The tools used for data collection were questionnaires for short training courses. This questionnaire consists of 5 parts. Part 1 was general information for respondents. Part 2 was information that needs short training for the general public. Part 3 was a topic of other interest. Part 4 was information about obstacles and problems that were not. Receive short training Part 5 was suggestions analyzed data basic statistics for analysis are percentage mean (x̄ ) standard deviation (S.D). The results of the study appear as follows 1. Most of the respondents were female aged over 50 years old education level wad undergrad degree most general staff positions at least 5 years of work experience. Most professionals (such as restaurant owners businessmen etc.) had the most. 2. Respondents to the short-term training requirements of Rajamangala University of Technology Phranakhon from the questions on the training curriculum requirements a total of 24 issues with a rating of 5 levels which are the most: 5 points a lot of 4 a moderate level of 3 points a minimum of 2 points and a minimum of 1 point. The study indicated that most respondents responded that there was a level of need for short-term training at the highest level. There was 1 points which are item 3 .4 : Research and innovation community (x̄ ) = 4.7649. The results of the study revealed that most respondents responded that there was 21 levels of interest in short-term training courses namely 1.6 points 44.6% were interested in training topics in the new social science research method. Training topics 34 .1 % of the potential for international chef development item 3 . 3 are interested in training topics 31.4% knowledge management courses community 3.5 are interested Tip interdisciplinary curriculum development community. The results of the study revealed the most respondents responded that there was 1 level of interest in the short-term training courses at moderate level namely 2.5 points 21.1% were interested in the ASEAN language for communication course. From the analysis of readiness of the Faculty of Liberal Arts Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon can arrange training on various topics. To develop guidelines for academic services for society to be efficient by having the location personnel experts learning resources cooperation and creating a short course training network. Keywords: training needs short course