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0 likes 8 playsIt's not about setting your career with what you study. That's one of the reasons SMU is so important. It’s got the four-year undergraduate programme,…
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0 likes 10 playsTo me, personally, it's the people Iíve met, it's the connections Iíve made. My wife and I have had some great weekends at Banyan Tree Resorts,…
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0 likes 1 playsI see this in particular contrast to Hong Kong U, in contrast to Hong Kong. There I was on the University Grants Council, committee council, for nine years. I went off…
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0 likes 1 playsA particular image of SMU that many people will draw in is the jumping student. But sooner or later, that student comes back to earth, gravity prevails. You can’t…
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0 likes 9 playsIt looks at international and strategy and the university in a wider sense. QAFU looks at the operations of the university in a more functional sense. I think probably a…
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0 likes 87 playsIt is an external body of wise people who have standing in the eyes of the Government. And I have to say, whose academic and other profile also commends themselves, as a…
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0 likes 2 playsBy the very nature of an institution that started out living in one roomóI guess thatís the nature of thisópeople got to know one another very, very…
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0 likes 7 playsWell, certainly SMU was looking for a different style of student. And in a way that’s pretty well reflected in the marketing, the image programme of the jumping…
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0 likes 6 playsWell, on finance, it was to oversee the budget, to ask the questions. The key question to me was: How can we make the budgeting process a strategic exercise? How can you…
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0 likes 31 playsOne of the reasons you probably need a longer tenure track at a new university is that we have fewer senior mentors for the younger faculty coming along. When I was at…
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0 likes 2 playsThe key responsibility for Academic Affairs Committee was to determine the nature of the gold standard at SMU. Were we going to be twenty-two carat gold or eighteen…
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0 likes 6 playsOne, was the admission process, the process and the quality of student admission. Secondly, was the design of the programmes that we were going to run. A third one, was…
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0 likes 2 playsI think the Board of Trustees has been one of the really important design features of SMU. Its role is essentially to bring wider experience and wisdom. It helps with…
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0 likes 1 playsWell, I had a phone call one morning. My secretary said that there is a Janice Bellace on the phone. I happened to know Janice from my international professional…
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0 likes 6 playsI spent most of my life, well, spent most of my adult working life in universities, but in and out of universities. I did a PhD in the US at the University of Illinois,…
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