Bulletin No. 1, 2016

As Much Remembrance, As Many Words 37 Officiating at the CUHK 50th anniversary kick-off ceremony (27 January 2013) Toasting at the 50th anniversary banquet (8 December 2013) to fruition. Third, I deeply believe that as Council Chairman, my major role was to map out the University’s future development with the senior management. What remained to be done was supervision and support, and support should come before supervision. My experience over the past few years tells me I was right. W hat tasks were most memorable to you? There were quite a few, and the first one was the setting up of the five new Colleges. To cope with the increase in student intake in 2012 without compromising the ideal of our collegiate system, the University decided to build five new Colleges. CUHK is a public university, and government funding only accounts for its basic expenditures. We need to raise funds to drive our infrastructural development. With the support of the Council and the community, we managed to set up all five Colleges, injecting even more variety into our collegiate system and further enriching students’ learning opportunities. The second one was the setting up of CUHK (Shenzhen). The new campus was the brainchild of Prof. Lawrence J. Lau, and the idea drew considerable skepticism at the beginning. We met with Mr. Wang Yang , then Secretary of the Guangdong Party Committee, who gave us much support. The plan also won the endorsement of the Shaw Foundation, which gave us a seed