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

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

5 Education Reform in Hong Kong in / 12 PolyU’s new curriculum The scheme Before 2012 Secondary Matriculation University Successful professionals Successful Professionals & Responsible Global Citizens Whole-person development o Leadership & Intra- personal development o Comprehensive language enhancement o Service-Learning Wider exposure to different academic disciplines Widened international exposure Engaging the nation 2 3 Starting 2012 Junior Secondary Senior Secondary

Service-Learning 2012/132013/142014/15 No. of Service-Learning subjects offered63858 No. of students serving in Hong Kong651,4382,385 No. of students serving in Chinese mainland No. of students serving overseas Total no. of students participating ,124 Total no. of service hours7,56075,840124,960 Types of services Child & Adolescent Development/Educational Services Community Healthcare Services Culture Preservation Manpower Training and Development Improvement of Living Environment Social Integration Services Sustainable Rural Development Technology Education & Development No. of students participating in overseas services in 2014/15 4 / 12

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

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

“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 “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 Quotes from Partners and Students This project provided us valuable teaching resources and motivated our students to study harder. A Chinese mainland community partner A local community partner This project can bring the new knowledge to our organisation in helping the South Asian children. 7 / 12

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

University of New South Wales Kyoto University Yonsei University 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. Peking University Beijing Normal University Sichuan University University of Haifa The University of Manchester Clare Hall, University of Cambridge Tufts University Washington University in St. Louis The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Inauguration 19 Oct / 12 University of Pretoria

Activities of USR Network Third USR Summit Student Learning and Programmes Staff Visit / Attachment Disaster Management Edited Book 1.Global Service Learning Scheme (May-Jul 2016) by PolyU 2.Leadership Summer School (7-20 Jul 2016) by PolyU and Peking University 3.University Immersion Programme (3- 17 Jul 2016) by Sichuan University The University of Manchester (11-12 Jul 2016) Beijing (4-6 Nov 2016) Theme: Nurturing a USR Culture Documenting and analyzing policies and practices of USR International Seminar on USR held on 9 Oct Working Groups under USR Network 10 / 12

Collaboration is the key 11 / 12

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