A New Era Begins 1975-78

unified University Departments or Boards of Studies, thus making possible the development of a well-balanced, highly-qualified academic staff in each academic discipline. As noted above, one of the earliest indications of the future character and scope of the emerging university was the establishment in 1965-66 of various organizational units to provide graduate and professional education and to foster research. The rapid growth of professional education in response to the needs of the Hong Kong community is recorded in the previous Reports. Section V I of this Report describes further efforts to meet the demand for professionally trained men and women, including an important new dimension——The Faculty of Medicine. Here again it is appropriate to include an Addendum, entitled “On Medical Education" which describes The Chinese University's innovative and socially significant approach to medical education. As described in The Emerging University, The Chinese University demonstrated its institutional commitment to basic and applied research by establishing, as early as 1965, research institutes and centres in the major areas of knowledge. Functioning on the organic principle, these units play a vital role in achieving the University's general and distinctive objectives. With one notable exception, the research activities of these units during the past four years are reviewed in Section VI I. The exception is the Institute of Chinese Studies, including its Art Gallery, which because of its wide-ranging activities focused on the distinctive educational mission of The Chinese University, is fully discussed in Section V I I I. An important institutional development related to all research and publications of the University took place on 1st June, 1977——the formal establishment of The Chinese University Press. It is described in Section VI I. As noted elsewhere, The Chinese University is fully committed to the three established knowledge functions of the modern university—— teaching, research, and public service. Section IX describes the various kinds of public service programmes and projects through which the University makes its expertise available to the community of Hong Kong. Apart from its production o f highly trained young graduates needed to sustain Hong Kong's advanced business and industrial society, The Chinese University's public service activities take various forms, the most important being the extensive Extra-Mural Studies programme, and the various research and consultation projects in which the University's expertise is used in solving Hong Kong's pressing social, business, and technological problems. As recorded in the first two Reports of the Vice-Chancellor, The Chinese University has been international in character since its beginning. Section X reaffirms this conception, and describes recent activities of the University in the international academic world. The University continues its extensive relationships and cooperative programmes wi th universities in all parts of the world. Its Faculties represent an international diversity of professional training and approaches to education. Distinguished scholars, including in particular overseas Chinese, come 6