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| School of
Law signs international agreements
The School of Law has signed collaborative agreements with the University
of Oxford, UK, to provide opportunities for CityU law students to study
at Oxford. CityU also finalised two agreements with the PRC's Supreme
Court and National Judges College to provide advanced legal training for
serving mainland judges at a ceremony at the Supreme Court of the PRC
in Beijing on 29 February. This is the first time the Supreme Court of
the PRC and National Judges College have collaborated with an academic
institution to provide training for mainland judges at the Master's degree
level.
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| Berkeley
deal means business
The Haas School of Business of the University of California, Berkeley,
will provide advanced management executive programmes to students of the
Faculty of Business of CityU under an agreement signed on 20 February.
Under this agreement, the two schools will work closely on the exchange
of students, academics, research personnel and administrative heads. In
one such exchange, 60 business executives studying at CityU will travel
to Berkeley in the US for five days of executive leadership training in
marketing, finance and entrepreneurship.
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| Cheung Kong
Chair Professorship
Professor Zhou Nan, Head of the Department of Marketing,
has been granted a Cheung Kong Chair Professorship under the Cheung Kong
Scholars Programme 2007. He will contribute his expertise on enterprise
management to Wuhan University for nine months or more during the coming
three years. The Cheung Kong Scholars Programme was established by the
Ministry of Education and Li Ka Shing Foundation in 1998 to further improve
China's standard of education and intellectual competitiveness through
the training of the country's best and brightest young minds.
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| Chinese
Week
The Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics (CTL) will hold
Chinese Week 2008 from 11 March to 14 March with the aim of promoting
Chinese language and literature. Programmes include seminars on modern
Chinese literature, Chinese calligraphy, wuxia fiction, modern literature
and cinema, canto-pop lyrics, performances in calligraphy, recitation
and Tai Chi and game booths on various Chinese cultures. Chinese Week
will be opened on 11 March at the Covered Terrace by Professor
Paul Lam Kwan-sing, Acting Vice-President (Undergraduate Education);
Professor Lilian Vrijmoed Kwan Lee-ping, Dean of Student
Learning; Professor Martin Painter, Acting Dean of the
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; and Professor Jonathan
Webster, Head of CTL.
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| Sharing
the experience of art
The Library and Human Resources Office have organised the second "Exhibition
of Art Works by Members of CityU Community". The display features
paintings, calligraphy, sketches, photos and glass sculpture created by
CityU staff. The exhibition opens on 6 March with a session entitled "Sharing
the Experience of Art" and an opening ceremony at which the officiating
guests will be Professor Richard Ho Yan-ki, Acting President,
Dr Jerry Yu Jer-tsang, Chief Information Officer, Dr
Ellen Ko Law Yin-lan, Vice-President for Administration, Mrs
Eva Ng Li Yee-wah, Acting Director of Human Resources and Professor
Steve Ching Hsianghoo, University Librarian. The exhibition will
be on display in the Learning Commons (Library) from 6 March to 31 March.
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| Wellness
March up and running
CityU formed a team to participate in the Standard Chartered Hong Kong
Marathon on 17 February, which marked the start of Wellness March 2008.
CityU organises the programme from February to April every year. To promote
healthy living, a series of physical activities, competitions, assessments,
music performances, workshops and outdoor pursuits, plus free use of the
CityU sports facilities, are provided throughout the period.
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| City Literary
Awards
The City Literary Awards have received an overwhelming response and the
organising committee has announced that the contribution
deadline will be postponed to 10 March. All winning entries of last year's
awards have been published in a book, Listening to the Note of the
City, which will be distributed on campus.
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| Sporting
success
The CityU fencing, taekwondo and woodball teams achieved impressive results
in the inter-collegiate competition organised by the University Sports
Federation of Hong Kong, China. The women's taekwondo and woodball teams
and the men's fencing squad were crowned champions. A second place by
the men's woodball team also contributed to CityU's winning of the overall
title in that event. The fencing and taekwondo teams both took second
place overall.
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