Morningside College Master's Report 2011-2012

Morningside COllege

Master's Report 2011-2012

Morningside College at The Chinese University of Hong Kong was established in 2006 with generous donations from the Morningside Foundation and Morningside Education Foundation Limited for the purpose of accommodating 300 students on a fully residential and communal dining basis.

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At the conclusion of our first year in our new College facilities, the entire College community wishes to take this opportunity to formally express our gratitude to Mr. Ronnie C. Chan and Dr. Gerald L. Chan for their foresight, generosity, and dedication to the mission of the University and to education worldwide.

“We want Morningside to stand as a reminder that the most fundamental missions of the University are to teach young people so that they may be of service to society; to form their minds with rich, diverse and challenging ideas; and to provide them with a liberal education that will equip them to become the leaders of tomorrow.�

Ronnie C. Chan Director, Morningside Foundation Gerald L. Chan Director, Morningside Foundation Chairman, Committee of Overseers, Morningside College

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Contents Master's Message The College Admissions Student Life General Education & Exchange

Service Athletics, Facilities & Infrastructure

Finance Committee of Overseers & Assembly of Fellows Morningside Rhapsody & With Gratitude Our Future

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Master's message

Morningside College was conceived at least seven years ago. The Council of The Chinese University accepted the generous and imaginative founding donation from the Morningside Foundation in May 2006. Now the College exists, accommodating a full complement of three hundred students, for the first time this September, in a fine building, governed by twenty-two Fellows and a Master, with an excellent, cheerful, and hard-worked supporting staff.

We welcomed our first students, seventy-two of them, two years ago. For the first year, they lived in International House, and enjoyed their three College dinners each week in the University Staff Common Room. But the sense of College identity was strong.

Morningside Muse, the College magazine, appeared miraculously. A rowing four performed creditably. Our students rose to the challenge of our general education course on “dilemmas” splendidly. Meanwhile the College Buildings were rising, on a slope with some of the finest views in a campus that rejoices in fine views.

The building was finished later than we had hoped, just in time for the beginning of our second student intake. The Maurice R. Greenberg Building (named to commemorate a valuable donation from the Starr Foundation), curves gently and attractively round the hill, with a wide terrace in front. The male students live there, as do visitors, and our Junior Fellows, who do tutorial teaching. The tower, not tall by Hong Kong standards, but aesthetically just right, accommodates the women students, the Warden of the College, and such delights as music practice rooms and common rooms. College dinners take place in the large dining hall, bright with windows on both sides, also curving gently. Talks and other events after, or, occasionally, before dinner are frequent. Members of the University

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come from all over campus to eat lunch there, or to enjoy our café. Essential facilities, such as refrigerators and the ping-pong table are kept busy. College lectures and tutorial classes are held in our seminar rooms. At the far end, mysteriously down a hidden staircase below a curious architectural folly, is the Master’s Lodge, a pleasure to live in, but hard to find.

Fellows of the College have their rooms in their University departments, but come to the College for dinner from time to time, for College committees, of which there are a surprising number, ranging from finance to discipline, and to mentor students, and of course for the occasional party. I can give some sense of the pleasure of their company by mentioning a few of their recent achievements and responsibilities. You can find out more from our webpage.

Colin Graham, a professor of emergency medicine, went to Haiti, still one of the world’s neediest countries after the 2010 earthquake, for Médecins Sans Frontières, that great medical charity. With another CUHK professor, he taught a course for medical staff there.

Leo Lee, who is always writing, has been appointed the Sin Wai Kin Professor of Chinese Culture at CUHK. He gave an inauguration lecture in April.

Professor David Parker was elected Secretary of the new Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities, created in 2011, just to keep him busy, while he is Executive Director and Chair of the Board of the Man Asian Literary Prize. He was our Dean of General Education all last year too, and the key lecturer in our “Dilemmas” course.

Professor Simon Haines, Chairman of the CUHK English Department, co-edited the 1000-page, 14-language Continuum Reader in European Romanticism, launched in Hong Kong in late 2010 with the backing of CUHK’s Research Centre for Human Values. The volume won the prestigious Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize from the International Conference on Romanticism for the best book on Romanticism published in 2010. Like David Parker, he was appointed a Foundation Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities.

Professor Rossa Chiu was awarded the ASPIRE (APEC Science Prize for Innovation, Research and Education) prize. This year’s theme was Health Innovation. She is now famous for the research, with her team, on new, and safe, tests to diagnose Down syndrome and other fetal genetic diseases. The test for Down syndrome has been launched as a clinical service in Hong Kong, China, Japan, Australia, US, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, the Netherlands and Israel; and has changed the way prenatal diagnosis is practised.

Keeping the list short, I might end by mentioning that the final report of the “Mirrlees Review of Taxation: Tax

Professor Colin Graham

Professor Rossa Chiu

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A college is a place for conversation, argument, discovery. Those of us who have created Morningside College, wanted it to be a place with people from all over the world, a place where students and fellows would learn more, about one another, about the world, about themselves, and, ideally, be creative. We have made a start. We celebrated at our inauguration on 11 November last year, when the principal donors, Gerald and Ronnie Chan, of Hang Lung Properties, spoke, as did Ambrose King, a former Vice Chancellor of CUHK, and a warm supporter. The Hong Kong police pipe band started the ceremony, symbolizing the bonds between Hong Kong and the wide world. Students presented a banner in the very many languages already to be found in the College. At that moment the College was properly established. It owes an immense amount to Gerald and Ronnie Chan, who support us in so many ways. Gerald Chan’s ideas for the College have been an inspiration and a foundation. Next year, we shall have our first graduates. That will be the beginning of our maturity.

Professor Sir James A. Mirrlees

Professor Edward Ng

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Professor Edward Ng, in the department of architecture, celebrates the 5th Anniversary of his Wu Zhi Qiao (Bridge to China) Charitable Foundation this year. 24 bridges and 2 humanitarian projects have been built. The projects have won him two UNESCO awards already. Over 1000 students from 19 universities have participated. For the next five years, Edward, as Chairman of the Foundation, will establish two centers in China to enrich and enlarge the efforts so far. Edward is currently putting together a team to design and build the CUHK 50th Anniversary WZQ bridge.

by Design” appeared last year, produced by a team I chaired. It is better bedtime reading than a volume of my selected papers translated into Chinese, just published

by Oxford University Press. In English, published some years ago, it was called “Welfare, Incentives and Taxation”.

Master's list

Cumulative GPA of 3.5 or above Alexandra Jade COLGAN BA English

SHIU Fung Yiu Shandy 邵楓堯 BSSc Economics

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DAI Mengjia 戴夢佳 BSc Quantitative Finance

TIAN Tian 田 甜 BEng Sys Engineering & Engineering Management

FONG Adrian Hei-yin 方熙賢 Bachelor of Laws

WU Yushan 吳雨珊 BSc Physics

HU Huiying 胡慧盈 BBA Professional Accountancy

YANG Tongou 楊童鷗 BSc Mathematics

HU Yue 胡 樾 Life Sciences Programme

ZHANG Kankan 張侃侃 BA Cultural Studies

HUANG Shao Ran 黃劭然 BSc Physics

ZHONG Xueyi 仲雪怡 BBA Professional Accountancy

JIA Bowen 賈博文 Life Sciences Programme LEE Hin Lung 李顯龍 BBA Insurance, Finance & Actuarial Analysis LEE Jiaying Alison 李佳穎 BSSc Psychology LI Chun Ngai Martin 李俊毅 Bachelor of Laws NG Wing Tung Vivienne 吳穎彤 BSSc Psychology

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the College “Morningside College was created with high ambitions.

In my view, a college is a community of people learning together; and not just learning but growing more able, and indeed creating new skills, new writing, new ideas.”

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Professor Sir James Mirrlees, Master

Morningside College completed the 2011-2012 academic year with great strengths. The College uniquely combines a liberal arts college experience with the distinctive features of residential colleges such as those found at Yale, Oxford, and Cambridge. The College’s Assembly of Fellows is composed of many excellent and engaged scholars who are committed to ongoing research and publication and development as innovative teachers. Disciplines represented in the Assembly include: Architecture, Communication & Journalism, Economics, Engineering, Finance, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Medicine, Music, Public Health, and Sociology.

Fellows are actively involved with campus, community,

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and professional service and participate in the ongoing governance of both the College and the University.

The qualities that our students bring to Morningside are also central to the College’s excellence. Morningside students, or “Morningsiders” as they call themselves, are independent active learners who value ideas, diversity, creativity, individuality, and civic responsibility. They are intellectually engaged, artistic, and idealistic. The Morningside student body is one of the most diverse student bodies at the University, with residents from 16 countries and 24 Chinese provinces. Over 10 languages and dialects are spoken.

The residential nature of Morningside allows students to experience the cohesiveness and intimacy of a small college while still enjoying the cultural and scholarly resources of a large university. Through the College General Education Program, Morningside students are exposed to a wide range of academic subjects with a focus on developing general intellectual capacities and problem solving skills. In the Freshman Seminar, “Current Dilemmas and their Histories”, students read Aristotle and Confucius, Bentham and Kant. The Master and Fellows of the College join students in introducing and contemplating dilemmas in economics and the law, medicine and society, journalism and artistic production.

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While the College’s academic and residential core is rightly the major focus of planning, no plan will succeed without the attainment of institutional financial sustainability. Indeed, Morningside’s General Education program, the College’s residential system, and its financial viability are inextricably linked. An education of the highest quality and a residential system to rival the best in the world will command resources commensurate with Morningside’s aspirations, and only a disciplined financial plan, focused on generating additional revenue, will prove capable of underwriting programs that will ensure the College’s standing as one of the most sought-after residential colleges in Hong Kong and Greater China.

2011-2012 was a monumental year for Morningside College in many ways. We hope you will enjoy reading about some of the more significant moments and the people who made these moments possible in the next few pages.

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Those involved in the day-to-day planning at the College have worked to identify ways that Morningside can build on the strengths of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, as well as those colleges around the world upon which it is modeled, to create a distinctive tradition combining commitment to academic excellence with the conviction that a liberal education is not only a private good but also a social good. In the second half of the 2011-2012 academic year, with the arrival of a new College Secretary, Ms Dora Dai, and a new Associate Master, Professor Ann Huss, the College turned its eye to good management practices.

A formal framework has been put in place that allows the College to strengthen the traditions begun by the

first cohort of Morningside students and staff while making space for new initiatives and a more mature and cohesive College community.

Admissions “A diverse student body is fundamental to the educational experience... Bringing together students from different backgrounds and walks of life challenges students to think in different ways about themselves, their beliefs, and the world into which they will graduate.”

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President Drew Faust, Harvard University, in a statement accompanying the filing of the University’s amicus brief in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, August 2012

2011 Admittees - By Nationality (Total Count-89)

Taiwan, 2, 2%

United Kingdom, 2, 2%

Venezuela, 1, 1% Australia, 3, 4%

Singapore, 1, 1% Philippines, 1, 1%

Canada, 5, 6% Macau, 1, 1% Australia

Korea, 3, 4%

Canada China

Italy, 1, 1%

Hong Kong Italy Korea

Hong Kong, 26, 29%

Macau

China, 43, 48%

Philippines Singapore Taiwan United Kingdom Venezuela

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The focus of the College is strongly academic and purposefully residential; successful applicants must therefore satisfy the College’s entry requirements.

The College admits to student places those who have the highest potential for benefiting from the College residential experience and who are best equipped to contribute to the College ethos. Students are drawn from Hong Kong, greater China, and internationally.

To attract outstanding applicants, the College supports the University’s outreach activities, including open days, and the provision of guidance and information in a printed prospectus and on the College website for prospective applicants. The College provides admissions scholarships to the very best students and bursaries to help support undergraduate students with limited financial means. The College also operates a Master’s Emergency Fund to assist students who experience financial hardship, and supports all eligible students through exchange, internship, summer study and research, and service grants.

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In 2011, Morningside received 206 applications for residence from a variety of schemes, including JUPAS (ii), Non-JUPAS, Non-JUPAS EAS (iii), International, and Mainland. Applicants were interviewed by the Master, Dean of Students and/or Fellows, either via phone, or in person in Hong Kong, Beijing, or Guangzhou. 89 students (43%) were admitted; JUPAS and Mainland intake experienced the greatest increase over 2010.

Morningside accomplished its enrollment goals in a competitive environment where gaining admission to the University has become more difficult and the choice of Colleges has increased to accommodate the double cohort. Along with the growing appeal of the Morningside residential experience, the College’s continued success is the result of a series of good decisions at the outset, including the determination to interview applicants.

(i) “Harvard Makes the Case for Diversity”, Harvard Magazine, accessed 18 Aug 2012: http://harvardmagazine.com/2012/08/ harvard-files-amicus-brief?utm_source=Harvard+Magazine+New sletters&utm_campaign=55b24c3950-weekly_8_17_2012&utm_ medium=email (ii) Joint University Programmes Admission System (iii) Early Admission Scheme

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As Harvard and its partners argue in the amicus brief referenced above, Morningside too believes in the “profound importance of assembling a diverse student body” to its educational mission. Diversity “encourages students to question their own assumptions, to test received truths, and to appreciate the spectacular complexity of the modern world. This larger understanding prepares…graduates to be active and engaged citizens wrestling with the pressing challenges of the day, to pursue innovation in every field of discovery, and to expand humanity’s learning and accomplishment.” (i)

Student Life

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“..they are sure to learn one from another, even if there be no one to teach them; the conversation of all is a series of lectures to each, and they gain for themselves new ideas and views, fresh matter of thought, and distinct principles for judging and acting, day by day…for [they] come from very different places, and with widely different notions.”

Cardinal John Henry Newman, The Idea of a University, 1852 Newman was a student at Trinity College, Oxford and a fellow of Oriel College.

A day in the life of Morningside College includes a rich combination of social, cultural, intellectual, and extracurricular activities. The student experience is defined by a multi-layered environment of rigorous education in classrooms and laboratories across the University campus, along with the development of an international perspective and life skills in the College hostels, dining hall, and seminar rooms.

members of the College staff.

The College guarantees accommodation for all its undergraduates throughout their normative study period. Settling in for the first year in the newlyconstructed Maurice R. Greenberg Building and Tower Block hostels, the students have found the experience transformative. The hostel’s numerous on-site features of dining hall, café, laundry, tv room, computer room, seminar and music rooms provide just the right environment for residential living and intellectual and cultural exchange. The Master resides in College, as does the Warden. Resident Tutors live in the hostels and support the work of the Warden. Pastoral care for all students is provided by the Dean of Students and other

Communal dinners are held in the College Dining Hall on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. The Master, Deputy Master, Associate Master, and Fellows often attend and regularly invite students to dine with them at the head table. Guest speakers introduced a variety of topics and ideas to students in 2011-2012; among the topics discussed were architecture, the world financial crisis, poetry and the moon festival, music as passion and career, and travel photography. Each Morningside student is assigned a mentor, who is also a Fellow of the College; mentors are encouraged to join their mentees at College activities and dinners throughout the year.

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The Master hosts weekly Master’s Teas during term time. These intimate gatherings in the Master’s Lodge on Friday afternoons provide first-year students an opportunity to chat with a world renowned scholar and teacher while learning about each other and the traditions of the College.

Morningside students are active in both body and mind.

The “Wolf Pack”, as they call themselves, is a group of Morningsiders that gathers at the College gates on Thursday evenings and, every once in a while, early in the morning, for a group jog around campus. Theoria (Θεωρία) is a student-initiated academic society that meets to discuss philosophy. Lin Yin-long and Jimmy Lee Siu-Hong (both Class of 2014), founded Theoria “in hopes of creating a platform for intellectual and idea exchange, as well as sharing and creation of life experiences within the student community, plus to resonate with the motto of Morningside College: ‘Scholarship, Virtue, Service’”. In 2012, around twenty Morningside students joined Theoria’s symposium on ‘What is Reality?’. The group hopes to organize several similarly intimate intellectual gatherings at the College in 2012-2013.

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Student participation in College Student Union is also encouraged. Following six months of hard work by the transitional Student Union, the Student Union of Morningside College was finally established in spring 2012. The Executive Council was elected in late February, followed by the Representative Council in early March. The former is responsible for the day to day operation of the union; the latter monitors the accounts and operation of the Executive Council and handles matters relating to the Constitution of the Student Union.

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other activities as approved. In 2011-2012, students enjoyed the following events: The Woman in Her Room (Cinematic Theatre, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre Black Box Theatre); Picasso – Masterpieces from Musée National Picasso, Paris (Hong Kong Heritage Museum); 36th Hong Kong International Film Festival; Streetcar Named Desire (Hamburg Ballet); Hong Kong Artwalk 2012; Bizet’s Carmen (Le French May 2012); and Cosi fan tutte (Bavarian State Opera).

The College provides two College General Education courses through small-group teaching and supervision.

Tutorial instruction is provided by College Junior Fellows, who are chosen via a rigorous application and interview process. Three Morningside Junior Fellows served the College in 2011-2012: Daniel Bleiberg (Yale University, BA, 2009), Chloe Li Chit Ning (CUHK, PhD, 2011), and Devereux Powers (Williams College, BA, 2009).

Exchange

The College makes available seminars, lectures, and other academic gatherings for all students. The College’s General Education Program also provides financial support to encourage attendance at cultural activities via the “Exploring Hong Kong’s Cultural Resources” Programme. Each Morningside student is allotted HK$350 per year for the purchase of event tickets. Events supported include: symphony, opera, and ballet performances, art exhibits, gallery talks, and

In its earliest conversations with admitted students, Morningside emphasizes the importance of the study abroad/exchange experience. The first group of Morningside students to go out on exchange travelled to 3 countries (Netherlands, UK and USA) to study in 20112012. As the chart indicates, Morningside is already highly competitive when comparing the percentage of each College’s student population that went on exchange in 2011-2012.

Students on exchange 2011-2012 (By college) Data courtesy of Office of Academic Links

15% 12.50% 8.79% 6.91%

6.49% 4.37%

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6.38%

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Service The College's objects, described in the Mission Statement of Morningside College, are: −− to create an intimate and collegial community where students and academic staff learn, share and grow and interact side-by-side intellectually −− to provide an environment for congenial college life and learning for students

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−− to offer pastoral care and whole-person education including general education for students −− to broaden and internationalize the students’ perspective through formal and non-formal educational programmes at the College −− and, in particular, to cultivate among its students a commitment to serve the community of Hong Kong, China and the world

During the past year, Morningside students contributed more than 750 hours to benefit non-profit service projects globally. 19 students, with support from Junior Fellows, faculty, and staff, mobilized themselves and others to weave Morningside’s values into service work in Hong Kong, Sierra Leone, Nepal, and China.

In late May, 14 Morningside students spent a week with the young residents of Sunbeam Children’s Village in Baiwan, Guangdong. Sunbeam is home to over 100 underprivileged and/or at risk children. Some are orphans, others are the children of migrant workers, and yet others come from families too large and too poor to support them. Morningside students spent a week working day and night to serve and mentor these children.

During lengthy workshops and intense discussions, our students created an elaborate “Game of Life” activity for the Sunbeam children that encouraged the youngsters to have fun while learning about the value of pursuing an education. On their last day in Baiwan, Morningsiders

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held a 4-hour Children’s Day Fair. They expected an audience of 150 – over 400 children from the Children’s Village and greater Baiwan showed up. The students put their contingency plan into practice and a good time was had by all. The College plans to make a longterm commitment to service in Baiwan, and the trip to Sunbeam Children’s Village an annual tradition.

All of us were lost in thought. I was thinking about what these five days meant for those children and for us. Maybe it was just a flash in the pan for the kids there, but it really touched my heart. Five days might be really short for us, but the feelings aroused from the five days were profound.

Personally speaking, I found myself loving community service.

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Dai Mengjia (Hubei, PRC) BBA, Year 1

“have All students at university done some group

projects, but not all of them are really done by a team. To be called a team, you should think, plan and act like one person. There is little teamwork when you divide the whole task, finish the parts individually and then present your own part. That is what I always do for class. But this afternoon, I finally felt I was part of a team.

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Hu Huiying (Liaoning, PRC) BBA, Year 2

“quotations There were way too many and questions…

being tossed out throughout the day, THERE WAS NO END TO IT, NO ESCAPE! Whether it was during meal-time, or evaluation after the games, or discussions, or briefings on the van ride back... This was intense!…And it grated on my nerves. Why won’t they just let me sleep or zone out and not reflect too deeply? What if I wanted to remain in my ignorant bubble? Yet strangely enough, I was intrigued by the intellectual discussion that was being engaged in and the interesting responses from the others…

Grace Yip (Singapore) Law, Year 1

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“almost On the way back, there was no talking in the van.

Athletics

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Competing in athletic events, excelling in the classroom, and contributing to community, Morningside student athletes worked and played hard to make a difference at the College and the University. As individuals and teams, they reflect the spirit of Morningside’s values.

Facilities & Infrastructure Although Members of the College, both students and staff, are the primary beneficiaries and are directly engaged in study and learning, there are many other beneficiaries. These include students and staff from other Colleges within the University and from the University more broadly, Distinguished Visitors, visiting academics from other institutions of higher education, visiting students, and the general public.

The College grounds, dining hall, and cafĂŠ are first and foremost meant to serve members of the College.

These facilities are also open to the public throughout the year; the Dining Hall is closed to outsiders three nights a week during communal dinners. Distinguished guests are invited to speak during communal dinners throughout the academic year. Visitors in 2011-2012 included a travel photographer, a professional singer, and an architect.

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Finance Income Income fell by 83% from HK$27.7 m (i) in 2010-2011 to HK$4.8m in 2011-2012. The decrease was due to a significant decline in donations (and matching grants) received (HK$15.5m), and a HK$8.8m decrease in investment income and interest received due to

the unfavourable investment climate. Government subvention for College Operations, however, rose by just HK$143,000, reflecting a 5.8% increase, and payout received from endowed capital decreased by HK$33,000 (representing a 2% decrease over that of last year).

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College Income 2011-2012 (Total: HK $4.8m (ii))

(i) Income in 2010-11 includes internal transfer of investment income and interest earned arising from the redeployment of scholarship funds and related matching grants towards College Operations in June 2011. (ii) Student Orientation Camp fees are excluded as it is a student self-financed project.

Other Income 0.7%

Donations and Matching Grants Received 0.4%

Expenditure Expenditure increased 100% from HK$3.1m to HK$6.2m.

The increase in expenditure reflects an expansion of scholarships and financial aid granted (from HK$0.3m to HK$1.2m) for two cohorts; growth in financial support

College Expenditure 2011-2012 (i) (Total: HK $6.2m (ii))

Payout Received from Endowed Capital 35.4%

Government Subvention 63.4%

provided to outgoing exchange students; a HK$0.8m investment loss; additional staff cost of $0.7m with two management posts filled during the year; and around HK$0.4m spent on the inauguration ceremony of the College held on 11 November 2012.

Scholarships and Financial Aid 14.6%

Exchange Programmes 4.1%

College Life Activities 0.8%

(i) Student Orientation Camp expenditure is excluded as it is a student self-financed project. (ii) The actual expenditure of HK$42,626 for the College Generation Education Programme is not recorded in the period owing to the timing of payment.

Interest and Net Investment Loss 13.1%

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College Operations 67.3%

Investment Policy and Performance The College’s investment assets, held to support its activities, are placed with independent investment managers in the name of The Chinese University of Hong Kong and spread across different asset classes and funds (cash deposits, bonds and equity investments).

The College’s primary objective when managing capital is to safeguard the College’s ability to continue as a going concern and to maintain a strong financial base to support the development of the College. To this end, the College invested in financial instruments which

include funds held by the University that are exposed to credit and foreign currency. While the associated credit risk is managed according to the University’s financial management policies and practices, the currency risk is considered immaterial as the College’s monetary assets and liabilities are mainly denominated in Hong Kong dollars.

Due to the unfavourable investment climate for 20112012, the College experienced a disappointing year during which endowed capital recorded a HK$1.4m investment loss.

A summary of the fund composition is depicted below:

Summary of College Operation and Scholarships Fund Balance as of 30 June 2012 (i) College Operation

Scholarships

HK$ (thousands)

51,123

2,494

53,617

3,129

3,129

RESTRICTED FUNDS

Endowment Funds Other Restricted Funds OTHER FUNDS

23,376

23,376

Total Funds

80,122

(i) Reserves and provisions under hostel operations are excluded. (ii) Operating reserves from government subvention are included.

The Coming Years Projections indicate that the College will come under increasing pressure to fund its operations. If the investment climate remains sluggish, payouts received from endowed capital with its rolling average will continue to drop; the inflation-adjusted internal allocation from the University will not fully finance the expenditures of the College. As employment and maintenance costs continue

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to rise, considerable financial challenges lie ahead for the College. Additional injections to the endowment will be necessary to enable Morningside to continue to provide an outstanding education and a residential environment conducive to the all-round development of our students.

Efforts must also be made to solicit other streams of income and reduce costs where possible without adversely affecting the College’s core objectives.

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Operating Reserves (ii)

Committee of Overseers Governing Documents The College is bound by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Ordinance (“the Ordinance”), Statutes, and Council resolutions.

The Constitution of Morningside College was approved by the Council on 16 November 2010.

The Ordinance prevails in the event of any inconsistency with the provisions of the Constitution.

The Committee A Committee of Overseers of the College was appointed by the Council, upon the nomination of the ViceChancellor.

(a) before the beginning of each academic year, endorses the proposed budget of the College for the academic year, and submits it to the Council for approval; (b) after the end of each academic year, prepares and submits to the Council the audited accounts of the College, in such form and at such times as the Council may determine.

Members Dr. Gerald Chan (Chairman) Mr. Daniel Auerbach Ms. Leoni Ki Dr. Anthony Neoh Professor Jesús Seade Dr. Alex K. Yasumoto Professor Sir James A. Mirrlees (ex-officio)

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The Committee of Overseers, annually,

Assembly of Fellows The Assembly of Fellows is constituted and regulated in accordance with the Ordinance (Statute 16, 2B), the terms of which are enforceable ultimately by the Vice Chancellor. The Assembly of Fellows is self-appointing.

duties The Assembly of Fellows sets the strategic direction of the College and regulates its administration and the management of its finances. It meets regularly under the chairmanship of the Master and is advised by its Committees.

The Assembly of Fellows assists the Master with: (a) arranging tutorial instruction, pastoral counseling and other forms of education; (b) the provision and supervision of residential accommodation for students at the College; and

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(c) the maintenance of discipline within the College.

The Assembly of Fellows normally meets three times a year. Committees of the Assembly of Fellows develop policies for approval by the full Assembly of Fellows and subsequently monitor their implementation. The duties and membership of the Committees are described in detail in the Terms of Reference for each Committee, kept on record by the College Secretary.

Department /Faculty

Emily Ying-yang Chan

Public Health and Primary Care

Lawrence Yam-leung Cheung

Linguistics and Modern Languages

Rossa W.K. Chiu

Chemical Pathology

David C. Donald

Faculty of Law

Colin A. Graham

Emergency Medicine

Sian M. Griffiths

Public Health and Primary Care

Simon N. Haines

English

Joseph Jones

Music

Leo Ou-fan Lee

Faculty of Arts

Janny M.Y. Leung

Systems Engineering and Engineering Management

Pak-wai Liu

Economics

Sir James A. Mirrlees

Distinguished Professor-at-Large

Edward Y.Y. Ng

Architecture

David Parker

Research Centre for Human Values

Jack Linchuan Qiu

Journalism and Communication

Anthony Man-cho So

Systems Engineering and Engineering Management

Anthony J. Spires

Sociology

Carmen Wong

Public Health and Primary Care

C.P. Wong

Engineering

Xi Chao

Faculty of Law

Yau Shing-tung

Distinguished Professor-at-Large

Leslie S.F. Young

Finance/Asia-Pacific Institute of Business

Affiliated Fellows Dr Cheung Man Biu, Robin

Department of Educational Administration and Policy, Faculty of Education

Prof Frank Ching

Journalist, South China Morning Post; Adjunct Professor, Department of History, CUHK

Dr Julie Chiu

Associate Programme Director, GEF Course, Office of General Education

Prof Gabriel Lau

Lecturer, Department of Geosciences and Program of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University

Mr Dick Lee

Retired Commissioner of Police

Dr Rebecca Lee

Founder and Director, Polar Museum Foundation

Mr Perry So

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra

The Honorable Anna Wu Hang-yuk

Chairperson, Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority

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Professor /College Fellow

Morningside Rhapsody 賦晨興

English translation Chinese University is composed of nine colleges united; they all incline their hearts to her. Mountains lean against the sea, clouds curl about the skies, at dusk glowing mist descends across the land. The morning sun sparkles brilliantly, and moon and stars stud the heavens at night, all before our eyes.

A leisurely stroll, the tinkling of a piano, flowers in bloom.

MORNINGSIDE COLLEGE

CHinese 中大有容，九院聯邦，眾裏傾心於它。山海相依，飛 雲繚繞，黃昏一地落霞。朝陽熠光華，星月綴蒼穹， 盡收眼下。閒庭信步，琴音嫋嫋，一叢花。 與院長同飲茶，有饕餮盛宴，名士講話。地靈人傑， 精英雲集，教授四海聞達。有國籍之差，然兄弟姐 妹，同是一家。添彩晨興史冊，留待你勾畫。

Tea with the Master, gluttonous feasts, conversations with esteemed visitors—wondrous land of great talents, where the elite gather like clouds, professors known the world ‘round. We hail from different nations, but we are brothers and sisters just the same, one family. The history of Morningside awaits only the stroke of your brush.

By Jennifer Ma, Class of 2014, BSSc Economics

With Gratitude The College is part of the structure of the University. Material interdependencies between the College and the University arise as a consequence of this relationship. The College is grateful for the support of:

Academic Links, Office of

Personnel Office

Admissions and Financial Aid, Office of

Pro-Vice-Chancellors’ Offices

Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellors’ Offices

Provost’s Office

Bursary

Registry

C.W. Chu College

S.H. Ho College

Campus Development Office

Security and Transport Office

Campus Planning and Sustainability Office

Shaw College

Chung Chi College

Student Affairs, Office of

Communications and Public Relations Office

Summer Programmes, Office of

Estates Management Office

United College

Information Services Office

University Dean of Students, Office of the

Information Technology Services Centre

University General Education, Office of

Institutional Advancement, Office of

University Health Service

Lee Woo Sing College

Vice-Chancellor’s Office

New Asia College

Wu Yee Sun College

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Our Future

Much was accomplished in 2011-2012; much remains to be done. In early May 2012, the Fellows of the College gathered at Beas River Country Club in Sheung Shui for a strategic planning retreat. Topics of conversation included General Education and Service Learning, Exchange opportunities, College Life, Space and Residence, and Finance.

PROFESSOR SIR JAMES A. MIRRLEES, PhD Cambridge Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences Master PROFESSOR JANNY M.Y. LEUNG, PhD MIT Professor of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management Deputy Master and Dean of Students PROFESSOR DAVID PARKER, DPhil Oxford Dean of General Education PROFESSOR ANN HUSS, PhD Columbia University Associate Master MS DORA DAI, BBA CUHK College Secretary

College Staff

The College team has since set to work to develop an accompanying set of operational plans.

MS EMILY HO Executive Officer

Morningside is confident that the goals set by the Master and Assembly of Fellows are grounded in expanding our resources and enriching opportunities for increased student engagement. With a visionary plan aligned with the original objects of the College, we expect that the College will continue to grow in substance, relevance and stature. Our work continues.

MISS CHRISTINE WONG College Project Executive MR CALVIN PANG College Project Executive MISS JOYCE TANG Personal Assistant to the Master MR CHAN CHUN MING Project Assistant MR CHARLES YIU Assistant Project Coordinator MS PURE CHOW General Clerk

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The Fellows affirmed several key initiatives of the College, including: −− Goals and practices of the College’s Service Learning program should be fortified. −− Exchange opportunities for Morningside students should be cultivated. −− College Life should be further enriched, with a particular focus placed on refining the communal dining experience. −− Outstanding construction projects should be completed and College facilities and grounds made more user-friendly and welcoming. −− Further thought should be given to development and donation management.

College Officers

Correspondence Address 通訊地址 General Office Maurice R. Greenberg Building Morningside College The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, New Territories Hong Kong, S.A.R. The People’s Republic of China 中華人民共和國香港特別行政區 新界沙田香港中文大學晨興書院 格林伯格樓書院辦公室

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