Bulletin No. 2, 2020

From Doctor-Scholar to Leader-Communicator   11  Shaw students and the care with which he cultivated their mind was almost fatherly. ‘A College head perched on a high horse,’ Professor Sung once observed, ‘gets funding for capital works, but building new facilities should not be his only role. The most important quality of a College head is that he should love the students and love being with them.’ As Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sung upholds a similar philosophy. Shortly after taking over the reins, he remarked, ‘I would like to develop CUHK into a university with a strong sense of social responsibility, where students will look beyond the walls of the classroom and concern themselves with society and people’s well-being. Stress will also be given to general education or “liberal education”, with the aim of increasing students’ exposure to knowledge and experiences beyond their specific areas of studies.’ But his attention is not only turned inward, to the people and the happenings on the Shatin campus. In the few months since his taking office, he has led CUHK delegations to visit the mainland and Taiwan, strengthening ties and forging new academic collaborations with universities and research institutes such as Peking, Tsinghua, Fudan, Shanghai Jiao Tong, Waseda, Taiwan University, Cheng Kung, Cheng Chi, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Science Council of the Executive Yuan. By insisting on providing a whole-person education for the students, Professor Sung is taking pains to draw the map that would show them the path to world citizenship. The mileage ahead of him is enormous.