Bulletin Vol. 2 No. 3 Oct 1965

D r . Cheadle. Hence, in the absence of President Ke r r, Chancellor Cheadle has come w i th D r . Allaway to honour us w i th their presence today. I n his statement, D r . Cheadle has paid tribute to a number of people for their part in bringing about the co-operation between the University of California and T he Chinese University. His remarks about my role are very generous. I would myself like to express m y profound gratitude to President Clark Ke r r. W i t h o ut his imaginative leadership and keen interest in T h e Chinese University , this program wo u ld not have become a reality as it has today. Special mention must be made of Chancellor Cheadle himself, his deputy D r . Russel Buchanan, who chairs the University's Policy Committee on Overseas Education, D r . Allaway, Director of the Education Oversea s Program, and M r . Robert Nichols who is responsible for getting the Fulbright-Hayes Progra m funds to support our inter-university co-operation scheme . On my side, my three College Presidents, D r . C . T. Yu ng of Ch u n g Chi, D r . T . C . Ou of New Asia, and M r . T . C . Cheng of Un i t ed, have, as always, helped me in planning, and now the task of implementing the co-operative agreement falls on a wo r k i ng group under the chairmanship of D r . Y u ng consisting of H . T . Wu, Preston Schoyer, Nelson Young, Ethel Fehl, Steve Huang, and M r s, George L i n g. Under the program for 1965/66, the University of California has sent to us, through its own financing, two professors f r o m its faculty in the subject fields where our needs are most urgent, namely, Education and Social Welfare. Com i ng to us are also two Ph.D. candidates in the field of Social Studies, and two j u n i or graduates i n the fields of Economics and History. They w i ll spend abou t one-third of their time in the service o f T he Chinese University in teaching or research responsibilities. T h ey w i l l pay T h e Chinese University the fees regularly charge d for housing, but T he Chinese University shal l waive the composition fee for any course wo r k the graduate fellows may wish to take. There are also five t h i r d- and f ou r t h- year undergraduates, two in the field of History and one each in Fin e Arts, Social Studies, an d Mathematics. Each of them w i l l pay the regular composition fee to the University, plus costs for room and board to the College where he stays. Altogether there are eleven f r om the University o f California; all have arrived except two who w i ll come next January. D r. Wayne Gordon, one the two professors, has been appointe d as Director of the University of California Program in H o ng Ko n g. I n return, the University of California w i ll waive tuition payments for thos e undergraduate or graduate students of T h e Chinese University who have been admitted, at our recommendation, to any one of the campuses of th e University of California, and w i ll make its research and office facilities available to visiting faculty members f r om T he Chinese University. D r . Cheadle has stated concisely the value of this inter-university co-operation t o the faculties and students of the University of California. Wh at does it mean to T h e Chinese University? For one thing, such a program is crucial to the development of our teaching staff. I t w i l l afford our senior members on the faculty an opportunity to go to a first-rate university abroad for refresher courses and for first-hand contact w i t h internationally k n own scholars. T h e program w i ll give our younger faculty members an d most promising graduates an excellent opportunit y to get advanced training and higher academic degree s abroad. Since the program has just commenced, no one has yet gone f r om her e to the University of California under this arrangement. Bu t in a related program two of our young faculty members are going next mo n th to the Berkeley campus of the University of California for advanced degrees w i t h generous scholarships. I n the second place, the visitin g faculty members and graduate fellows coming f r om California w i ll strengthen our own teaching force considerably . Th ey w i ll enable some of our own faculty members to go abroad w i t hout jeopardizing our teaching program. T h ey w i ll do research here by themselves or j o i n t ly w i t h our teaching staff , and help us in planning our research as well as curricula. A l l this w i ll go a long way t o improve the quality of our own teaching and to create an atmosphere for scientific research. I n the t h i rd place, the program enables our students and faculty members to have first-hand contact w i th overseas scholars at T h e Chinese Universit y and thus to become directly involved i n the wo r ld current of intellectual development. Hopefully this program w i ll make T h e Chinese University a t r u ly international center standing in the forefront in search of new knowledge i n certain fields. Another important development associated w i th our co-operation w i th the University of California is the i mm i n e nt establishment of an institute of Business Administration, at the graduate level , to serve the growing needs of the large and complex business c ommu n i ty of Ho ng Ko n g. A l t hough these plans have not yet matured, they have been discussed at some length and in considerable detail both w i th our friends at the Graduat e School of Business Administration on the Berkeley campus o f the University of California and the Trustees of L i ngnan University, who are based in New York . Perhaps w i t h in a year, I shall be in a position to announce officially that our plans have been completed and that adequate funds have been provided to us by the L i n g n an Trustees. We must realize that thi s program of cooperation w i t h the University o f California only marks the beginning of a mu ch wider program of inter-university co-operation. Our co-operation w i th our siste r University of H o ng K o ng has been close and w i ll be even closer i n the near future. I expect that the California program w i ll grow over the years. A n d there w i ll be similar programs w i th other universities in 5