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From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _ on 16-Oct-2019, 16:24 GMT+8
0 0 likes | 13 13 playsThis 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… -
From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _ on 16-Oct-2019, 16:21 GMT+8
0 0 likes | 7 7 playsThat 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 to… -
From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _ on 16-Oct-2019, 16:17 GMT+8
0 0 likes | 2 2 playsI 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… -
From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _ on 16-Oct-2019, 16:10 GMT+8
0 0 likes | 10 10 playsDare 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 won’t be… -
From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _ on 16-Oct-2019, 16:04 GMT+8
0 0 likes | 9 9 playsI 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 events,… -
From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _ on 16-Oct-2019, 16:00 GMT+8
0 0 likes | 3 3 playsHarking 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… -
From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _ on 16-Oct-2019, 15:58 GMT+8
0 0 likes | 9 9 plays19 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… -
From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _ on 16-Oct-2019, 15:51 GMT+8
0 0 likes | 13 13 playsYes. 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 advantage… -
From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _ on 16-Oct-2019, 15:44 GMT+8
0 0 likes | 5 5 playsI 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 need… -
From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _ on 16-Oct-2019, 15:41 GMT+8
0 0 likes | 7 7 playsI 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… -
From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _ on 16-Oct-2019, 15:36 GMT+8
0 0 likes | 26 26 playsA 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 at… -
From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _ on 16-Oct-2019, 15:27 GMT+8
0 0 likes | 4 4 playsThese postgraduate professional programs, taught masters programs, that exist in many universities, for me, is about building a more professional cadre of individuals… -
From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _ on 16-Oct-2019, 15:22 GMT+8
0 0 likes | 5 5 playsAnd then, of course, at the faculty level, faculty are constantly trying to juggle between the different demands of being an academic—teaching, research,… -
From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _ on 11-Oct-2019, 13:51 GMT+8
0 0 likes | 5 5 playsIt 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 curriculum,… -
From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _ on 11-Oct-2019, 13:51 GMT+8
0 0 likes | 5 5 playsin 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… -
From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _ on 11-Oct-2019, 13:51 GMT+8
0 0 likes | 15 15 playsThere were various factors that led me to establish that commission. One was that in terms of the undergraduate curriculum, the University had been pioneering at the…