Bulletin Number Four 1983

and specialities. New Asia College reflects the characteristics of the national universities with their Confucian background, Chung Chi College the Christian universities with their Western outlook, and United College the locally-oriented colleges with their commitment to serve the community. One of the first tasks of the University was to bring all its components together on one campus, so as to eliminate unnecessary duplication and pool resources in both administration and teaching. Originally the Central Office of the University and the three Colleges were located inHong Kong, Kowloon and the New Territories, from 1,600 to 4,800 metres apart. The problem was immediately solved when the Government granted the 110 hectares of land adjacent to Chung Chi College in Shatin as campus site. The main buildings of the Headquarters and New Asia and United Colleges were completed within a decade. It cannot be over-emphasized that the early acquisition of an integrated campus site has contributed significantly to the development of the University. As the University originated in three post-secondary colleges, it adopted a federal system at its inception. But after several years of planned development, The Chinese University had emerged as a complex organization with many other teaching and research units, the Graduate School, research institutes and centres, the University Library and the School of Education, etc. To enable the University to function as an organic whole, organizational changes had to be made. In 1977, the University implemented new constitutional arrangements, under which Departments of the three Colleges were integrated into University Departments, which are responsible for subject-orientated teaching, and it was stipulated that the principal role of the Colleges would be the provision of student-orientated teaching. Thus, a complementary relationship was established between the formal learning offered by the University Departments and the informal learning provided by the Colleges, which are responsible for general education and the organization of recreational and athletic activities for the students. Another change ushered in by the new Ordinance and Statutes was greater participation by teachers in University governance. The reorganization of 1977 undoubtedly was a milestone in the development of the University. In the past two decades, the University has developed not only undergraduate instruction in the humanities and the sciences, but also postgraduate and professional education. At present, a wide range of full- time programmes leading to the BA, BBA, MB ChB, BSc and BSSc degrees are offered by the over forty Departments under the Faculties of Arts, Business Administration, Medicine, Science, and Social Science. There are four part-time degree programmes leading to the degrees of BA, BBA and BSSc. Postgraduate programmes leading to the PhD, MPhil, MA, MA(Ed), MBA, MDiv and MSW degrees are offered by the Graduate School through the twenty-five Graduate Divisions/Board. The School of Education offers one-year full-time and two-year part-time programmes leading to the Diploma-in-Education. 17