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International Presidential Forum on Global Research Universities

International Presidential Forum on Global Research Universities Social Responsibilities of Higher Education and Strategic Global Partnership Social Responsibilities: the focus of higher education in the 21st century Professor Timothy W. Tong, Ph.D.

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International Presidential Forum on Global Research Universities

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  1. International Presidential Forum on Global Research Universities Social Responsibilities of Higher Education and Strategic Global Partnership Social Responsibilities: the focus of higher education in the 21st century Professor Timothy W. Tong, Ph.D. President, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 12 April 2016

  2. Key Roles of Higher Education in the 21st Century Pollution Famine Education Social Responsibility Water Scarcity Poverty Research Services (Knowledge Transfer) 2/ 12

  3. Education Reform in Hong Kong in 2012 The 3-3-4 scheme PolyU’s new curriculum • Whole-person development • Leadership & Intra-personal development • Comprehensive language enhancement • Service-Learning • Wider exposure to different academic disciplines • Widened international exposure • Engaging the nation 1st university in HK: compulsory and credit-bearing Service-Learning Progamme University 3 Senior Secondary Matriculation 2 Junior Secondary 5 Secondary Successful Professionals & Responsible Global Citizens Before 2012 Starting 2012 Successful professionals 3/ 12

  4. Service-Learning Types of services No. of students participating in overseas services in 2014/15 Child & Adolescent Development/Educational Services Community Healthcare Services Culture Preservation Manpower Training and Development Improvement of Living Environment Social Integration Services Sustainable Rural Development 4/ 12 Technology Education & Development

  5. A Few Examples Learning through providing eye care and vision health to the community in Cambodia by optometry students Helping ethnic minorities in Hong Kong to create maps of neighbourhood by land surveying and geo-informatics students • Helping physically disadvantaged people in Guangdong by biomedical engineering students 5/ 12

  6. Student Ratings on Learning Gains 98% student respondents had significant learning gains 13.9% 12.1% 11.2% 10.7% 9.9% 9.1% 9.9% 11.2% 10.4% 14.7% 0% 60% 40% 100% 80% 20% 13.1% Percentage of Students 10.0% Much Very Much A Fair Amount Quite a Lot 6/ 12

  7. Quotes from Partners and Students This project provided us valuable teaching resources and motivated our students to study harder. This project can bring the new knowledge to our organisation in helping the South Asian children. A Chinese mainland community partner A local community partner “I believe the end of that service trip is another start of the next stage in my life,” Cheung So Yi, Year 3, Department of Management and Marketing “I will continue to take part in other voluntary services, and will treasure all the things that I have,” Jack Zhang, Year 3, Department of Civil Engineering “Through SL, I witnessed the poorest places in the world and understood their culture and people’s genuine needs. I made a promise to myself, “I will come back””. Lemon Ling, 2014 graduate, Department of Computing 7/ 12

  8. USR Steering Committee • Set up in July 2015 • To provide strategic directions • To enhance coordination of University’s SR endeavours and achieve synergies Our Framework: external internal Enhance “sustainability” with“knowledge” The first theme: Live GREEN 8/ 12

  9. USR Network To share ideas and resources to develop collaborative USR projects with varied scope and scale, advancing higher education as a catalyst for social change through education, research and community service. Clare Hall, University of Cambridge The University of Manchester Peking University Beijing Normal University Yonsei University Sichuan University Tufts University Kyoto University University of Haifa Washington University in St. Louis The Hong Kong Polytechnic University University of New South Wales University of Pretoria Inauguration 19 Oct 2015 9/ 12

  10. Activities of USR Network • International Seminar on USR held on 9 Oct 2015 • 5Working Groups under USR Network Global Service Learning Scheme(May-Jul 2016)byPolyU Leadership Summer School(7-20 Jul 2016)byPolyU and Peking University University Immersion Programme(3-17 Jul 2016)bySichuan University Beijing (4-6Nov 2016) Theme: Nurturing a USR Culture Documenting and analyzing policiesand practices of USR The UniversityofManchester (11-12 Jul 2016) 10/ 12

  11. Collaboration is the key 11/ 12

  12. Thank You

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