| City University of Macau Foundation Trust Committee held its Annual meeting of 2012 at April 12th, 2012. The University Foundation Trust Committee’s Chairman Chou Kei Jan, Vice-Chairman LAO NGAI LEONG, The University Administrative Committee’s Chairman Chan Meng Kam, University Fiscal Committee’s Chairman Chui Sai Cheong and the University’s Rector Yan Ze-Xian attended and spoke at the meeting. During the meeting, it was agreed through discussion that Professor Qiu Xiao-Hua would be appointed as the University Foundation’s secretary-general, and Mr. Su Jin-Xiong would become a member of the Administrative Committee for the Foundation.
Chairman Chan Meng Kam stated that in this past year, City University of Macau has completed the historical change of Renaming and Restructuring, and has started down the road of Transforming and Upgrading towards further development. In the future, the University will continue broadening the scope of educating, improving the quality of teaching and learning, as well as raising the standard of researches. The University would focus on establishing the Research Centre for Macau Social and Economic Development and actively expanding the scale of communication and collaboration with universities in Portuguese-speaking countries, to better promote development for Macau’s local higher education. The University Foundation’s Working Report, Financial Report, University Fiscal Committee Report for 2011 and Working Plan for 2012 were discussed and approved at the meeting. Qiu Xiao-Hua was appointed as the secretary-general for the Foundation, and Su Jin-Xiong was confirmed as a replacement member for the Foundation’s Administrative Committee. Chairman Chan Meng Kam began his report at the meeting by stating that under the guidance of Ministry of Education, Special Administrative Regional Government and the University Foundation, City University of Macau has completed all projects in accordance to the University development plan for 2011. Especially through Renaming and Restructuring, the University has now become a non-profit private organization for higher education, bringing brand-new opportunities and broadened prospects for the future. For the past year, City U has made significant achievements on teaching and learning, scientific researches, campus construction, school management, foreign exchange, and social services. Some of these achievements included co-establishing the Research Centre for Macau Social and Economic Development, a national key research base for humanities and social science, with Renmin University of China and Liaoning University, and successfully hosting a number of international academic conferences. Additionally, the University has gradually expanded the scope of full-time education; especially the approval from the Ministry of Education which allows the University to recruit full-time undergraduate students from mainland starting this year, counts as a major breakthrough on City U’s transformation and future development. Chairman Chan Meng Kam further indicated that to increase the dimension and enhance the quality of educating, City U would apply to the government for opening some near 10 new courses, including but not limited to Economics and Management, Education and Arts. These courses would be mostly undergraduate ones, which would be beneficial for next year’s planned increase on number of student enrollments. There would also be further revising and improving on the University’s system of research management, actively engaged in researches of Portuguese-speaking countries, tourism and gaming, and Macau culture, and focus on establishing the Research Centre for Macau Social and Economic Development. University management would be innovating, strengthening and perfecting the governance of City U, and increasing the build-up for the University’s resources, such as improving hardware improvements like equipments on campus and expanding soft resources like the teaching team. The University’s communication and collaboration with other universities from mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan and abroad would be actively expanded, in order to establish various collaborating projects of a substantive nature. Chairman of the University Fiscal Committee Chui Sai Cheong indicated that since its establishment last year, City University of Macau Foundation has made substantial progress under the collective effort of members of Administrative Committee. In addition to completing a series of relevant legal procedures, the Foundation has been officially recognized by the Special Administrative Regional Government as the owner of City University of Macau recently. Chairman Chui believed that the Foundation would enter new stages on development in the future, and accomplish much more on promoting sustainable development and educating talents in Macau. |
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