Ronald E FRANK - Mediacast | Singapore Management University

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From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _ 16-May-2016

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One of the joys having been dean in two institutions and president in SMU, for me, is to look back. Sure, I have an ego, I'm pleased with what happens when I was in…

About Ronald Frank 2 of 11

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About Ronald Frank

From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _ 10-May-2016

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The first sort of twenty years of my career had been teaching, publishing, writing, scholarship, consulting. The latter twenty years it shifted more to administration.…

First Involvement 3 of 11

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First Involvement

From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _ 10-May-2016

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Well, I had seen the board close up and seen what was happening. At board meetings I would often come in a week or more before and do some consulting for Janice,…

Roles and Responsibilities 4 of 11

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Roles and Responsibilities

From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _ 10-May-2016

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So number one, there's a junior class that need to get recruited. There are faculty that need to get hired for that purpose. If that's going to get done, they…

SMU's Evolution - Getting Started 5 of 11

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SMU's Evolution - Getting Started

From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _ 10-May-2016

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Well, I would argue that is still in process, not over. When the university started, they had done a deal with Wharton, to provide initial guidance, curricular…

Hiring of Faculty 6 of 11

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Hiring of Faculty

From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _ 10-May-2016

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Well, one of the challenges that I'll bet is still going on because I've been out of touch for a while it turned out, that if you really aggressively…

SMU's Evolution - Distinguishing SMU 7 of 11

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SMU's Evolution - Distinguishing SMU

From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _ 10-May-2016

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Oh yes, I would say materially. It would have been, I think, difficult to get the quality of deans that we brought to Singapore that were capable of decentralised…

SMU's Teaching Pedagogy 8 of 11

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SMU's Teaching Pedagogy

From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _ 10-May-2016

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Dave Montgomery used a phrase that I like a great deal, I think captures a great deal. There ought to be balanced excellence between research and teaching. That the…

Advice for students 9 of 11

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Advice for students

From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _ 10-May-2016

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Just remember when you're done, the platform you stood on when you walked through that door was those other generations, and the people in the government, and…

The Bukit Timah Campus 10 of 11

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The Bukit Timah Campus

From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _ 10-May-2016

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Well, the campus then was in a very idyllic setting. You were surrounded by a fair amount of open park land. The campus was two quads that shared a common side, so you…

Setting up of SMU's Law School 11 of 11

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Setting up of SMU's Law School

From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _ 10-May-2016

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We had some discussion about was the importance of getting a law school as part of the university. If you looked at what's called a cognate kind of an intellectual…

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