Calendar 2008–2009

20 Part 1 • General Information Part 1 by financial help from church organizations in North America and Britain. Local churches, firms, and private individuals also gave considerable support. In 1956 the College moved to its permanent site in the Ma Liu Shui valley. Between 1959 and 1963 the College received the bulk of its funds from the government. In 1963 the College was incorporated as one of the three Colleges of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. The College has its own Chaplaincy Office to promote religious activities which include Sunday worship services, and Christian fellowship programmes, and later established a Theology Unit (now named 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, Quality Activity Award 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, exploration 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. A wide array of scholarships, financial aid schemes and awards are offered to encourage students to excel in their academic pursuits as well as to participate in college educational activities. In 2007–08 Chung Chi College had a student population of 2,886, of whom 1,296 were male and 1,590 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.