| The Chinese University of Hong Kong | |
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| 香港中文大學 | |
| Motto | 博文約禮 (Classical Chinese) |
| Motto in English | To broaden one's intellectual horizon and keep within the bounds of propriety |
| Established | 1963 (merger of Chung Chi College, New Asia College and United College) |
| Type | Public |
| Chairman | Dr. Vincent Cheng |
| Chancellor | Sir Donald Tsang |
| President | Prof. Joseph Sung |
| Vice-president | Prof. Benjamin Wah Prof. Kenneth Young Prof. Jack Cheng Prof. Pak-chung Ching Prof. Michael Hui Prof. Henry Wong Prof. Yangsheng Xu |
| Provost | Prof. Benjamin Wah |
| Vice-Chancellor | Prof. Joseph Sung |
| Undergraduates | 11,255[1] |
| Postgraduates | 3,060[1] |
| Location | Ma Liu Shui, Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong |
| Campus | Rural, 137.3 hectares (1.373 km2) |
| Colors | Purple and gold |
| Affiliations | ASAIHL, ACU, IAU, Association of Christian Universities and Colleges in Asia |
| Website | www.cuhk.edu.hk/ |
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Abbreviation: CUHK or Chinese University) is a research-led university in Hong Kong.
CUHK is the only tertiary education institution in Hong Kong with Nobel Prize Laureates on its faculties, including Chen Ning Yang, James Mirrlees, Robert Alexander Mundell and Charles K. Kao (Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics, 2009). Other eminent thinkers at the university include mathematician Shing-Tung Yau, laureate of the prestigious Fields Medal and Veblen Prize, and computational theorist Andrew Yao, laureate of the Turing Award.[2]
CUHK is also the only university in Hong Kong that has produced Laureate of the Fields Prize (Prof. Shing-Tung Yau), equivalent to Nobel Prize.
CUHK is a trilingual campus; its languages of instruction are English, Cantonese, and Mandarin. The school is also home to the Yale-China Chinese Language Center.
The university has 61 academic departments organized under eight faculties: arts, business administration, education, engineering, social science, medicine, science, and law.[3] Within these 61 departments are 117 undergraduate programs and 247 postgraduate programs.[3]
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CUHK is ranked highly by various recognized institutions. For years, CUHK has been listed as Number 1 in Hong Kong by Academic Ranking of World Universities ARWU[4], which ranking was commented by Oxford University's chancellor, former Governor of Hong Kong Chris Patten as "fairly solid."[5], as compared with not purely academic rankings like QS World University Rankings[6],QS Asian University rankings[7],Times Higher Education World University Rankings[8], etc. These not purely academic rankings trigger vigorous controversies[9], for e.g. nearly all famous German, French and Japanese universities, which produced a large number of Nobel Prize laureates, are however listed by these rankings behind Hong Kong's universities which produced not even one, except CUHK's mathematician Prof. Shing-Tung Yau, laureate of the Fields Medal (equivalent to Nobel Prize), Nobel Prize laureate.
The university's founders hoped that it would become the bridge that connects China and the West, and to combine tradition with modernity.[10]
As a collegiate university, it comprises seven colleges that differ in character and history, each retaining substantial autonomy on institutional affairs: Chung Chi College, New Asia College, United College, Shaw College, Morningside College,[11] S. H. Ho College,[12] and Lee Woo Sing College. Chung Chi College was formed to consolidate the thirteen famous Christian universities in China before 1949, which include inter alia, Saint John's University, Shanghai, Yenching University, etc.
All undergraduates are affiliated to one of them.[13] Currently, two new colleges are to be established in the near future; namely Wu Yee Sun College and C. W. Chu College.
Colleges are communities with their own hostels, dining halls and other facilities. Students receive pastoral care and whole-person education, including formal and non-formal general education by means through close interaction with teachers and peers. Colleges promote extracurricular activities.
In 2005, The Chinese University of Hong Kong's budget was HK$4,558 million, with government subventions of about HK$2,830 million.[14] In the 2008-09 fiscal year (starts April 1), total income was down to $4,413 million while government subvention had risen to $2,916 million.[15]
The university's School of Continuing and Professional Studies (SCS) was established in 1965 under the name of the Department of Extramural Studies. In January 2006, the school was renamed the School of Continuing and Professional Studies.
The university library system houses the Hong Kong Studies Archive, Hong Kong Literature Collection, Chinese Overseas Collection, Nobel Laureate GAO, Xingjian Collection, Nobel Laureate CY Yang Archive, American Studies Resource Collection and Modern Chinese Drama Collection.
CUHK also houses the Chinese University of Hong Kong Art Museum, which houses "a wide range of artifacts illuminating the rich arts, humanities and cultural heritage of ancient and pre-modern China."[14] In 2010, The Chinese University of Hong Kong was chosen to be a part of the BBNM Group for its excellence in co-operation projects with the corporate world in Hong Kong.[17] Today, they are represented among the BBNM Member schools.[18]
There are eight faculties at CUHK:
Each faculty runs undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
The Yale-China Chinese Language Center (CLC), formerly New Asia - Yale-in-China Chinese Language Center, was founded in 1963 under the joint auspices of New Asia College and the Yale-China Association. The center became part of Chinese University in 1974 and has been responsible for the teaching of one language education (Putonghua and Cantonese) of university students as well as other Putonghua and Cantonese learners. Courses are offered for non-native speakers and for native speakers of Chinese.
University programs are divided into Putonghua courses for local students, Cantonese courses for mainland Chinese Students and Putonghua and Cantonese courses for international exchange students
Programs are provided to public, with Putonghua/Cantonese courses for non-native speakers (Chinese as a foreign language/second language, CFL), and Putonghua/Cantonese courses for native Chinese speakers.
Although the campus is located away from the busier districts in Hong Kong, access to campus is easy. The university connects with the other districts of the city via the Mass Transit Railway and the Hong Kong bus system. Buses and trains stop by Chung Chi College.
See Maps of the Shatin main campus: Campus Maps
On 29 May 2010, when the CUHK student union sought to permanently locate a 'Goddess of Democracy' statue on campus, the administrative and planning committee of the University convened an emergency meeting for 1 June, chaired by incumbent Vice-chancellor Lawrence Lau, to consider the request.[19] The application was turned down; the reason provided was the need for the University to maintain political neutrality. Staff and students objected to the refusal, however, accusing the committee of self-censorship; students declared they were prepared for a stand-off against the University, saying they would ensure the statues were accommodated on campus "at all costs".[20]
A student meeting was convened, and student union President Eric Lai told 2,000 attendees that the University officials should apologise for their opposition of the art display.[21] On 4 June, bowing to public outcry and student pressure, the University relented, and allowed the statue on campus.[22]
Vice-chancellor designate Joseph Sung, who was consulted on the vote in absentia, admitted that it was the biggest political storm in 21 years. He revealed that, in addition to preserving political neutrality, safety and security concerns were factors in the decision. He also drew a distinction between this application - for a permanent University installation - and hypothetical applications for short-term expressions of free speech, suggesting the latter would have been more likely to be approved, but he criticised the management team as "immature" and "inexperienced" in handling the incident.[19]
An editorial in The Standard criticised the committee's naivety in not anticipating the reaction. It was also highly critical of Sung for seeking to distance himself from the decision with such a "lame excuse".[22] Outgoing Vice-chancellor Lawrence Lau defended the committee's decision as "collective and unanimous" after "detailed consideration," citing the unanimous vote of the administrative and planning committee, and he disagreed with Sung's characterization of the management team. While the vote was unanimous, however, Sung stated that he had suggested the wording of the decision include the qualification that the committee "had not reached a consensus."[23]
The student union said the two professors should have communicated to reach a consensus, and that Lau's reply "failed to explain why the school used political neutrality as a reason to reject the statue."[24]
CUHK has adopted in its Strategic Plan 2006 the strategy of focusing its research investments in five fields of academic enquiry:[26]
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