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0 0 likes | 22 22 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…
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0 0 likes | 12 12 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…
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0 0 likes | 5 5 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…
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0 0 likes | 13 13 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…
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0 0 likes | 13 13 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…
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0 0 likes | 9 9 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…
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0 0 likes | 13 13 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…
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0 0 likes | 24 24 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…
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0 0 likes | 7 7 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…
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0 0 likes | 10 10 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…
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0 0 likes | 52 52 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…
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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…
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0 0 likes | 14 14 playsAnd then, of course, at the faculty level, faculty are constantly trying to juggle between the different demands of being an academic—teaching, research,…
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0 0 likes | 6 6 playsThis 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…
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0 0 likes | 6 6 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…
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0 0 likes | 19 19 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…