Bulletin Report of The Commission on The Chinese University of Hong Kong March 1976

It is partly a matter of the spirit animating the administration and partly the product of continuing vigilance and understanding on the part of all those in authority as the relationship matures over the years. 81. Thus, with the corollary that there should be flexibility of operation, we recommend that there should be a single administration to manage the affairs of the University as a whole in accordance with the directions of the Council and Senate. When effect has been given to the changes we propose, the University may well wish to consult an experienced university administrato to see whether improvements can be made in its practices in the interests of effective management and economy while, at the same time, safeguarding the diversity of the Colleges. (2) T h e Colleges (a) Board of Trustees 82. Existing Boards of Governors, or Board of Trustees in the case of The United College, should be discontinued and so should the existing College Councils. There should, however, be a Board of Trustees for each College with duties confined specifically to responsibility for such property as the existing Boards brought with them into The Chinese University of Hong Kong at its formation and still retain. We would expect that members of the proposed new Boards of Trustees would wish to take a continuing interest in their respective Colleges. They might, for example, wish to raise funds to promote extra-curricular activities (e.g. in the case of Chung Chi, chapel activities), to endow scholarships or in some other way to enhance College life. Some of the projects they might wish to promote might be designed to confer benefits exclusively on their particular College ； others might be of a kind which could benefit students from all parts of the University, and in that case it would be only proper for consultations to be held in advance with the other Colleges and with the relevant University body. (b) Assembly of Fellows 83. There should be no academic departments as such within Colleges. Nor should there be an Academic Board in any of the Colleges. Instead there should be in each College an Assembly of "Fellows" of which the Head of the College would be the Chairman. The Assembly would be responsible for the maintenance and development of the College as a corporate communit for the well-being of students who are members of the College whether residing there or for arranging tutorial instruction for them and pastoral consultation, for the provision to residential students of board and lodging and for the maintenance of discipline within the College. If an Assembly so wished, it might, after consultation with the Senate, offer an extra-curricular programme, which, we hope, would be made available to students from other Colleges as well as its own. (c) Head of College 84. The Head of each College—— Yuan chang is perhaps the appropriate title in Chinese terminology — should carry weight as a scholar. He would have a crucial role to play in the life of the University as well as of his College. He would represent “student-orientated" concern and be the guardian of the ideals of his College within the University. He should serve on the University Council, Senate and Administrative and Academic Planning Committee ex-officio, and in the conduct of his College and its work he should collaborate closely with the Vice-Chancellor. 85. We suggest that each Head of College should be appointed by the Council of the University on the recommendation of a selection board consistin of 6 Fellows of the College concerned who should be of varying academi