Annual Report 2010–11

16 張眼看世界 有廣闊的襟懷，放眼本地社群以外 的世界，是成為世界公民的先決條 件。中文大學為學生提供眾多海外 交流的機會，除了一學期或一學年 的交換生計劃外，各種課程都設計 了海外學習和體驗的機會。比如， 以「世界城市 • 人文領袖」為理念的 領袖培育課程就安排了兩次海外考 察： 2010 年冬，一批學生到了中國首 都北京，走訪遭拆遷的釘子戶、民工 子弟學校、爭取同性戀權益的志願 組織等等，在這個中國的權力中心 看邊緣。 2011 年 7 月，該課程三十名 學生到了倫敦，向這個面對各式各樣 問題的世界城市借鏡。 考察團學員之一陳景龍說：「在倫 敦的兩星期，『這在香港可以實現 嗎？』是最常浮現在我心頭的問 題。」例如，他們探訪當地著名社 會企業 Coin Street Community Builders ，知道這條街的居民如何 成功保衞家園，抵抗地產商的開發 計劃。這令陳景龍不禁要問：「為何 Coin Street 可以，利東街不可以？」 學生又探訪另一家名為 Account 3 的社會企業，看看它如何在短短 二十年間，發展成擁有一幢樓高數 層大廈的組織，既以企業的身分賺 錢支持自己的營運，又協助婦女發掘 自己的能力，為她們提供工作機會， 鼓勵她們走進社區，實現建設更美 好的社會的理想。 他們還探訪過一個叫 Renaissance 的組織，專門幫助被社會標籤為一 事無成或中途輟學的年輕人。另一 位參與的學生葉昱蔚說：「它的創辦 人很年輕，只比我們大兩三年。看到 一個和我們自己年齡相若的人在做 這樣的事情，令我不禁自問：我們是 否也應該像他一樣有勇氣去做這樣 的事情？」 領袖培育課程副主任（課程）梁啟智博士說： 「行程設計是要推翻同學對某些地方的想像。 想到倫敦，可能是很歐洲很古色古香建築，或 者很前衞很時尚，但其實這裡還有很多事情在 發生。」 所謂領袖培育，怎樣才算成功？是不是看教出 來的學生賺多少萬元一個月？梁博士說：「我 不想校園會這樣判斷我們成不成功，而希望大 家可以看看我們的同學為學校帶來些甚麼。例 如，去完倫敦北京回來的，會跟其他同學說： 原來在世界上，事情不是這樣的。你可以當我 們是一個R&D部門，學校的學生文化需要不斷 更新和成長。我希望領袖培育課程成為一個實 驗室，讓同學不斷嘗試不同的東西。」 ‘The itinerary was arranged to challenge the stereotypes of certain places. The name London may conjure up images of medieval European buildings or people sporting progressive fashion. But there are other facets to the city,’ said Dr. Leung Kai-chi, assistant programme director of the LDP. When it comes to leadership development, what is the yardstick for success? Is it the monthly salary of its students? Dr. Leung said, ‘I don’t want the University community to measure us with such a yardstick. I hope people can see what our students can bring to the University. For example, after visiting London and Beijing, the LDP students can tell their classmates that in other parts of the world, things are different from what they are here. If you want, you can see us as a research and development unit. It is important that the student culture on our campus grow and renew itself constantly. I hope that the LDP can serve as a laboratory where students can try something new.’ Eyes on the World Global citizens respect diversity and care about those with whom they share this planet. CUHK provides students with a variety of exchange opportunities. In addition to term- long and year-long exchange programmes, many programmes offer short-term visits or study abroad experiences to their participants. For example, with the theme ‘World City, Humanistic Leaders’, CUHK’s Leadership Development Programme (LDP) features two non-local study visits. In the winter of 2010, a group of LDP students visited Beijing. They tried to get some first-hand knowledge about the people at the periphery of the political heart of China by visiting households displaced by urban development, a school for children of migrant workers, and a gay rights NGO, etc. In July 2011, 30 LDP students went to London, a world city that is faced with a variety of challenges, to learn from its experience. Chan King-lung Raymond is one of the LDP students on the tour. He said, ‘During the two-week trip to London, one question kept crossing my mind: “Can this be realized in Hong Kong?”’ After the visit to Coin Street Community Builders, a famous social enterprise, they were impressed by Coin Street residents’ successful campaign against the planned development of their neighbourhood for hotels and offices. Raymond asked: ‘Why can Coin Street do it, and Lee Tung Street can’t?’
 After that they visited Account 3 to see how this women’s cooperative has grown in 20 years’ time into a successful enterprise that owns a building and generates revenue to support local women in developing their potential and accessing the job market, achieving its ideal of making its community a better place. The students also visited Renaissance, an organization that aims to empower school dropouts or teenagers labelled as unsuccessful. Ip Yuk-wai York said, ‘Its founder is a young person who is only two or three years older than we. Seeing a person who is about the same age as we are doing such things, I couldn’t help but ask myself: will we have enough guts to do what he is doing?’