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From Ching Chen CHANG 26/04/2017
0 | 2It'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,… -
From Ching Chen CHANG 26/04/2017
0 | 2To 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,… -
From Ching Chen CHANG 26/04/2017
0 | 0I 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… -
From Ching Chen CHANG 26/04/2017
0 | 0A 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… -
From Ching Chen CHANG 26/04/2017
0 | 0It 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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From Ching Chen CHANG 26/04/2017
0 | 3It 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… -
From Ching Chen CHANG 26/04/2017
0 | 0By 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… -
From Ching Chen CHANG 26/04/2017
0 | 1Well, 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… -
From Ching Chen CHANG 26/04/2017
0 | 0Well, 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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From Ching Chen CHANG 26/04/2017
0 | 0One 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… -
From Ching Chen CHANG 26/04/2017
0 | 0The 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… -
From Ching Chen CHANG 26/04/2017
0 | 1One, 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… -
From Ching Chen CHANG 26/04/2017
0 | 0I 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… -
From Ching Chen CHANG 26/04/2017
0 | 0Well, 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… -
From Ching Chen CHANG 26/04/2017
0 | 0I 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,… -
From Ching Chen CHANG 17/04/2017
0 | 7I remember it was in Year Three; I was having a casual conversation with Professor David Smith after we discussed the outline of my research paper. He was just asking me… -
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