UIC held an inauguration ceremony for new students on August 29, attended by over 1190 new students from 19 academic programmes. This is the first year that UIC offers the Full Scholarship. An Entrance Scholarship presentation ceremony was held concurently. Along with the new students, over 60 teachers and TAs newly recruited from around the world have also reported on board.
UIC held an inauguration ceremony for new students on August 29, attended by over 1190 new students from 19 academic programmes. This is the first year that UIC offers the Full Scholarship. An Entrance Scholarship presentation ceremony was held concurently. Along with the new students, over 60 teachers and TAs newly recruited from around the world have also reported on board.
UIC President Prof. Ng Ching-fai, Vice President Prof. Zee Syzyong, Vice President Prof. Zhang Cong, Academic Registrar Prof. Zhang Genfa, Dean of Division of DBM Prof. Stella Cho, Dean of DST Prof. Stephen Chung, Dean of DHSS Prof. Meiwha Sung, Director of ELC Prof. Eva Lai, Director of CLC Dr. Wu Hongyu, Director of WPE Dr. HP Guo, Director of General Education Prof. James Chan were present at the inauguration.
Prof C.F Ng encouraged students to build a liberal arts college in unity
After the rise for the national anthem, Prof. Ng gave an address and encouraged students to build UIC into an exemplified liberal arts college in unity. Prof. Ng said:
"In the last part of 20th century, we have already entered into a post-industrial era; more and more, we are now living in a knowledge society a characteristic of which is knowledge explosion and information explosion. Thus, many educators in the world are of the opinion that no matter how much content you inject into an undergraduate degree course for a specific discipline, it will never be enough as new knowledge continues to emerge and the existing knowledge would soon be outdated. Therefore it would be better off to offer degree courses with less major subjects and a greater breadth of related or general knowledge type subjects so as to better prepare the students to face an ever changing society by acquiring the ability and attitude of life long learning and high EQ..., I dare say only few universities in China would provide you with such a broad knowledge base and international exposure on which to construct your future success. Dear Students, let us make UIC an exemplified liberal arts college here in Zhuhai that you and I will be proud of. "
Four students received the Entrance Scholarship
Four Students received the Entrance Scholarship from Prof. C.F.Ng on the ceremony. Prof Zee Syzyong, Vice President of UIC with academic affairs urged students to start now by behaving like a mature adult, learn to work hard, withstand stress, face challenges, reduce the chance of making mistakes, and eventually become a well-rounded whole person.
Prof. Zhang Cong, Vice President with Student Affairs, stated during his address that it is the first time that UIC offer Full Scholarship to new students, which will waive their tuition fee for the whole four academic years if they meet relative requirements.
The winners of the Entrance Scholarship are Dai Tianjiao, Applied Psychology, Zhang Xue, Finance, Long Qin, Applied Economics, and yang Chenxi, Accounting. They all scored 70 points higher than the first tier requirement, and scored over 127 in their English exams.
Long Qin from Kunming said the English teaching at UIC is very appealing to him. The family atmosphere here was another stimulator of his choice. Dai Tianjiao from Xinjiang said she likes Psychology and was looking for a college of international standard, and UIC was the one for her. She added that she met no barriers in communicating with our foreign teachers since she arrived for they are very friendly and easy-going.
Prof. Johnson Huang said SAO recruited 80 voluntary student helpers and 150 peer mentors to help student with their adaptation to college life, and hopefully that will reinforce the family atmosphere of the college.
Newly recruited teachers come from seven countries and regions
There are 4400 on-campus students from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Korea. UIC teachers come from over 20 countries and regions, 32 of which are foreign teachers, 26% are from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, and 39% from the Mainland that possess overseas academic experiences. 34% of the teaching staff are PhD holders. The college newly recruited 60 teachers from seven countries and regions, including America, Canada, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Korea, etc.
Reporter: Cheryl Chen,Anny Wang
Photos: Cheryl Chen, Richard Xu
Translation: Richard Xu
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