Calendar 2007–08

20 Part 1 • General Information Part 1 The College established its own Chaplaincy Office to promote religious activities which include Sunday worship services, and Christian fellowship programmes, and later set up a Divinity School for the training of Christian ministers. Academic and cultural activities are regularly organized for both staff and students of the College. They include seminars, college life luncheon talks, annual education conferences, the Siu Lien Ling Wong Visiting Fellows Programme, and various exchange and visitor programmes. Students are also encouraged to take part in extracurricular activities organized by the college students union, departmental societies, class societies, various interest groups, the non-residential hall student society, and student hostel associations. Various student development programmes, such as the student visitor programme, language enhancement programme, learning arts programme, QualityActivityAward Scheme, outward bound training programme, mentor programme, service learning programme, Overseas e-Mentoring Programme, Sung Sheung Hong Creativity Award, and ‘Dreaming Through Chung Chi’ programme, cultural study trips to France/ Germany, summer overseas internship programme and summer study abroad programme, are designed to provide students with more learning opportunities in the pursuit of a balanced education. Awide array of scholarships, financial aid schemes and awards are available to encourage students to excel in their academic pursuits as well as to participate in college educational activities. In 2006–07 Chung Chi College had a student population of 2,766, of whom 1,213 were male and 1,553 female. About one-third of the students were Christians. New Asia College NewAsia College was founded in 1949 by Dr. Ch’ien Mu and a group of scholars from mainland China. The College aims to preserve traditional Chinese culture and to balance it with the Western learning so that students may understand their cultural heritage and at the same time be capable of copingwith the challenges of the modern world. The College has a humble beginning but soon gained public and private support both locally and overseas. Set up in 1959 as a grant college, New Asia College became one of the three constituent Colleges of The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1963. InAugust 1973, NewAsia College moved to the existing campus in Shatin. To enrich the cultural and academic life on campus, NewAsia College has organized scholarly visits and various cultural activities throughout the year under