Vice-Chancellor's Report 1978-82

Chinese and Asian studies, IASP students were also exposed to a wide range of cultural and social activities, including a carefully planned orientation programme and special tours to China. Benefiting from a generous donation by Yale-China Association towards the University hostel building fund, especially for the construction of Wen Chih Tang, the students were given the opportunity of living in the University's hostels where they could freely mix wi th local students and have contact with Chinese culture at a totally different level. Soka University of Japan has, since 1977 ， sent two to four students each year to participate in the IASP of the University and made donation for scholarships for participants of the IASP. There was also a faculty exchange between the University and Soka University. A similar exchange programme is also operating with Tsukuba University. It is worth pointing out that the development of international programmes i n these four years had induced the office of IASP to change its role from the original function of serving only the IASP to one of serving all exchange programmes of the University. Such a development and the stimulation this provided had gradually transformed the office of IASP into an office for foreign students and formed a good base for centralization of efforts and better coordination. The University has also been running a long established exchange programme with the University of California. Each year, a batch of students and two teaching staff from the University of California would come to the Sha T i n campus and a number of the University's own students would be selected to pursue postgraduate studies at the University of California on scholarship. Since June 1981, this Exchange Programme had merged functionally wi th the IASP and become an established part of the University's international programmes. Aside from exchange programmes involving mainly students, the University was also engaged i n a staff exchange programme wi th Robinson College at the University of Cambridge. Started in 1980 as a result of the Inter-University Council's (IUC) policy to encourage the development of inter-institutional links between Hong Kong and the United Kingdom, The Chinese University— Robinson College Exchange Scheme provided for the exchange of one academic staff between the two institutions each year. Following the conversion of the IUC into the Committee on International 46