A New Era Begins 1975-78

three Foundation Colleges were brought physically together, each handsomely accommodated on the spectacular Tolo Harbour site. The title implies that the kind of "university" which is emerging is not the kind o f "university" envisioned and established in 1963. In place of a legal association of three independent undergraduate colleges, The Chinese University described in the Report is a complex organization providing undergraduate, graduate, and professional education, fostering research through a system of institutes and centres, and conducting extensive programmes of public service. In brief, a modern university. Though the college structure continues, organizational components function increasingly on the organic principle, reducing duplication, maximizing the u t i l i ty of human and material resources, extending and enriching the entire educational programme. To these modern university objectives and inter-related wi th them, the Report stresses, The Chinese University makes a total institutional commitment to a distinctive educational goal——the integration of Chinese and Western intellectual and cultural traditions ； and through bilingual instructional programmes, the University endeavors to blend these great traditions i n the minds of its young graduates, enabling them to function effectively in all inter-relationships of these two cultures. This distinctive educational mission, it may be observed in passing, differentiates The Chinese University from its sister University of Hong Kong, making the two institutions serve complementary, rather than competing, purposes within the Hong Kong community. Implicit in the development o f The Chinese University ， as described in The Emerging University, is a persistent question of the adequacy or the appropriateness of the original structure, policies, and administrative machinery to serve the present and future purposes of The Chinese University. That question could not continue to be officially ignored. In the "Look i ng Ahead" Section of the second Report, the question is explicitly stated, and an announcement is made of the Vice-Chancellor's appointment of The Working Party on Educational Policy and Univers a group of highly respected Faculty members asked to undertake a comprehensive institutional self-study and to recommend solutions to those fundamental problems. That momentous question of fundamental change in University policy and structure necessarily becomes the principal theme of the present Report——the formal process of consideration, internally by the Working Party and externally by the second Fulton Commission ； their extensive analyses and far-reaching recommendations leading to the adoption of a new Ordinance for The Chinese University. It has been said that whereas the Report of the first Fulton Commission established the University, the Report of the second Fulton Commission ushered the University into a totally new era. Hence the title of this third Report of the V i c e - Chan c e l l o r— New Era Begins, 1975-1978. In this Report, although largely concerned w i th institutional change, it is desirable, or perhaps necessary, to reaffirm at the outset certain basic matters of institutional continuity——the distinctive goals and 4