On 6th September, the Faculty of Management (FOM) Freshers’ Welcome Meeting 2013, themed ‘新的精彩，從此綻放 (Your Wonderful New Life Starts From Here)’, was held in the morning in Room 1302 on the 13th floor at the Golden Dragon Campus, which aims to help students adapt to their new living and learning environment as easily as possible, as well as provide them with information about City U and FOM. There were about 300 students attending the welcome meeting, including BBA students, MBA students and DBA students. The meeting was hosted by Dr Gavin Chau, the Associate Dean of FOM. Also, FOM was pleased to have invited the following guests (in no particular order): Prof Su-seng Pang, the Executive Vice-Rector of City U and the Dean of FOM; Prof Nelson Tsai, the Registrar of City U; Prof Ken Chow, Prof Eva Khong, Prof K. Y. Fong, Prof Ivo Carneiro de Sousa, Prof Hui-ran Shang, Prof Andy Liu, Dr Sonny Su, Mr Pedro Santos and Mr Willaim Chan, teaching staffs of FOM; Mr Allan Wong, Miss Xu-mei Dong, Mr Percy Lon and Miss Li-rong Wang from the Academic Division; Miss Easter Lam and Miss Sunry Sun from the Library.
During the meeting, Prof Pang shared his academic and work experiences; Dr Gavin Chau and the FOM teaching staffs presented a welcome speech; Mr Allan Wong gave an introduction to the history of Macau; Miss Li-rong Wang presented information about student affairs; the librarian introduced the library resources of City U and the public library services in Macau; Mr Lin-chang, Chairman of the Student Union, introduced the role of the Student Union in City U.
The highlight of the meeting was the Time Capsule Session, during which students wrote down their own goals and dreams on a piece of letter paper, sealed it in an envelope, and put in into the time capsule. The letters will be kept by FOM and given back to the students upon graduation, which aims to help students set their learning goals and evaluate their academic performance.
At the end of the meeting, the Vice-Rector, Registrar, and teaching staffs gifted the students with a key-shaped USB drive, implying the key to the door of success.
