Bulletin Spring 1975

Recent Developments in International Programmes In keeping with the unique international status of Hong Kong The Chinese University is becoming a global centre for inter-cultural communication. This trend was emphatically endorsed by the arrival in October 1974 of the first fifteen winners of the Luce Scholar awards for a series of orientation lectures given by the University's experts in Chinese and Asian Studies. The participants represented a highly selective group of young American scholars from such world-renowned universities as Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Chicago, Vanderbilt, etc., with professional fields ranging from architecture and economics to theology. The Chinese University was chosen as the institutional base for the orientation programme which the scholars were obliged to attend before fanning out across Asia to take up assignments based on their career interests and preparation. At the end of their year as Luce Scholars, they will be expected to return to the United States not as Asian experts, but as citizens and future leaders in their professions whose perception 一 of Asia, of America, and of themselves—will have been substantially sharpened as a result of their experience. A similar Luce Scholar orientation programme will again be conducted at the University in October 1975. In response to the increasing interest in East Asia and requests by foreign students for more regular study opportunities in a Chinese language and cultural environment, The Chinese University, in cooperation with the Yale-China Association, has been planning for some time to launch an International Asian Studies Programme (lASP) on the campus for some 75 students and scholars from abroad. The proposed l ASP will be a full-fledged interdisciplinary programme cutting across the areas of Humanities, Social Sciences and Business Administration as well. It will develop its own core of faculty staff with a curriculum programme sufficiently diversified in discipline coverage and level to meet the needs of a wide spectrum of both undergraduates and graduates of all nationalities. The University has an exchange agreement with the University of California which provides a number of tuition scholarships and fellowship grants for recent graduates and junior faculty members to pursue higher degree studies at various U.C. campuses. In return, California sends each year two prominent professors and a number of students to The Chinese University. Since 1974 the University's student exchange arrangements with U.C. have been extended to include one-year and two-year program While the one-year program is tor U.C. students to spend their "junior" year at C UHK , the two-year programme enables some of the more career-oriented students to spend their "senior" and first graduate years at the University to take better advantage of our comparative strengths in Chinese and Asian Studies. With the support of the Inter University Council, London, the Board of Studies in Chemistry, C UHK and the University Chemical Laboratory, Cambridge University have established a link, inform at the initial stage, for an exchange of faculty members. One Exchange students being a part of campus life