Lily KONG - Mediacast | Singapore Management University

Advice for Students - Know yourself and find a…

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Advice for Students - Know yourself and find a…

Advice for Students - Know yourself and find a good fit

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This advice for new students is something that I have been trotting out in the last three years, that as Provost I have had the occasion to use with prospective…

Personal Reflection - Getting a different…

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Personal Reflection - Getting a different…

Personal Reflection - Getting a different perspective

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That is a really good question. When one is in one institution twenty-five years or thereabouts, you begin to take many things for granted. What it has done for me is…

Presidents - Learning & delegating

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Presidents - Learning & delegating

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I like the fact that a university is such a multi-faceted place. If I just focus on the faculty, the myriad research questions that they ask, the sorts of things that…

Advice for Students - Dare to dream

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Advice for Students - Dare to dream

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Dare to dream. Dare to dream. Very often, we think because we have to do all these things—that maybe many men have less responsibility for—we…

Personal Reflection - As a woman in senior…

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Personal Reflection - As a woman in senior…

Personal Reflection - As a woman in senior management

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I have just said this to a group of 800 teenagers over the weekend. My alma mater, my secondary school and my primary school had organized its 165th anniversary…

Challenges & Future - Healthy competition,…

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Challenges & Future - Healthy competition,…

Challenges & Future - Healthy competition, cooperation and collaboration

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Harking back to what I said a moment ago, we are not going to win in a scale game. I think we must continue to be innovative as a university in the way in which we do…

Concept & Values - Making a difference in…

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Concept & Values - Making a difference in…

Concept & Values - Making a difference in higher education

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19 years ago, actually 21 years ago when SMU was first imagined and then conceived very quickly, and then developed, established and developed very quickly, I think it…

Challenges & Future - A relatively young…

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Challenges & Future - A relatively young…

Challenges & Future - A relatively young university

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Yes. If I might just add to that—a relatively small university; it is not small but it is not fifty thousand, forty thousand students, and there is great…

Presidents - Leadership styles, group dynamics

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Presidents - Leadership styles, group dynamics

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I always believe in a leadership team, as opposed to a single leader who is dominant and maybe charismatic, but overly dominant. I do think there are times when you…

Presidents - Garden metaphor

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Presidents - Garden metaphor

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I have been hugely encouraged by the reaction. I have had colleagues who said that the “what” in the garden which I had described in terms of the four…

Presidents - Internal and external role

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Presidents - Internal and external role

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A provost’s role is much more internal. It deals with everything academic. The president’s role is both internal and external. Internal in the sense that…

Teaching & Curriculum - Postgraduate…

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Teaching & Curriculum - Postgraduate…

Teaching & Curriculum - Postgraduate professional programs

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These postgraduate professional programs, taught masters programs, that exist in many universities, for me, is about building a more professional cadre of individuals…

Research - Capacity building

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Research - Capacity building

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And then, of course, at the faculty level, faculty are constantly trying to juggle between the different demands of being an academic—teaching, research,…

Teaching & Curriculum - SMU-X courses

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Teaching & Curriculum - SMU-X courses

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As the world evolves, so too has SMU, and Arnoud has been the brains behind the SMU-X initiative which I have now put in the next category—aside from the…

Research - Societal Challenges

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Research - Societal Challenges

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in preparation for that, we had talked about our areas of excellence, and we have identified five in the last little while, and they have been good in terms of sort of…

Campus - Prinsep Street Residences

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Campus - Prinsep Street Residences

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It does. So that is just the core curriculum, and I have touched on the core curriculum, and how it is integrated. There are other dimensions yet of the core…

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