Bulletin Summer 1976

There should be no academic departments as such within Colleges. There should be in each College an Assembly of "Fellows" of which the Head of the College would be the Chairman. The Assembly would be responsible for the maintenance and development of the College as a corporate community for the well-being of students who are members of the College, for the provision to residential students of board and lodging and for the maintenance of discipline within the College. The Head of each College should carry weight as a scholar. He would represent "student-orientated" concern and be the guardian of the ideals of his College within the University. The initial appointment of each Head of College should be for 7 years and he should be eligible for reappointment for not more than 3 years. Fellows would normally be elected by the Assembly of Fellows of the College concerned from among the academic staff of the University for 5 years and should be eligible for re-election. The academic staff of the University who are not elected Fellows would be allocated to Colleges. They would be "College-associated teachers" and would share in the life of their College but would not participate in its running. Each College's undergraduate working library would be administered by the University Librarian. Financial provision for each College should be made annually by the Council of the University after appropriate consultation between the Head of the College and the Vice-Chancellor. Each College should have an approved budget to cover miscellaneous academic expenditure, expenses incurred in creating a suitable cultural environment for its members, entertainment expenses, sundry administrative charges. The Commission concludes by pointing out that if the Colleges are each to retain the characteristic spontaneity which will diversify (and thereby strengthen) what they have to contribute to the University as a whole, the University in serving their administrative needs will have to learn how to give them scope to maintain their individuality. [The full text of the Report of the Commission on The Chinese University of Hong Kong is given in a Supplement of The University Bulletin.] The campus