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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

From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _

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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

From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _

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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

From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _

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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

From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _

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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

From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _

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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

From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _

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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

From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _

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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

From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _

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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

From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _

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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

From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _

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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,…

President - Career in Singapore prior to joining…

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President - Career in Singapore prior to joining…

President - Career in Singapore prior to joining SMU

From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _

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When I was an undergraduate in my final year, the head of department said to me, “Would you be interested to be an academic?” and I had not really thought…

Teaching & Curriculum - Blue Ribbon…

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Teaching & Curriculum - Blue Ribbon…

Teaching & Curriculum - Blue Ribbon Commission for Undergraduate Education

From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _

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There 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…

Campus - Prinsep Street Residences

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Campus - Prinsep Street Residences

From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _

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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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