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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…
Advice for Students - Know yourself and find a…
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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…
Personal Reflection - Getting a different…
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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…
Presidents - Learning & delegating
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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…
Advice for Students - Dare to dream
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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…
Personal Reflection - As a woman in senior…
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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…
Challenges & Future - Healthy competition,…
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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…
Concept & Values - Making a difference in…
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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…
Challenges & Future - A relatively young…
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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 - Leadership styles, group dynamics
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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 - Garden metaphor
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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…
Presidents - Internal and external role
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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…
Teaching & Curriculum - Postgraduate…
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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,…
Research - Capacity building
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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…
Research - Societal Challenges
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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…
Teaching & Curriculum - SMU-X courses
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This was something that was in its very nascent stage when I moved to SMU and the whole space was a little bit preliminary and nascent. I had the opportunity to try…
Teaching & Curriculum - SMU Academy
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