List of colleges of the Chinese University of Hong Kong

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As a collegiate university, the Chinese University of Hong Kong comprises nine colleges that differ in character and history, each retaining substantial autonomy on institutional affairs: Chung Chi College, New Asia College, United College, [1] Shaw College, Morningside College, [2] S. H. Ho College, [3] Lee Woo Sing College, Wu Yee Sun College and CW Chu College. All undergraduate students are affiliated to one of them. [4]

Colleges are designed as communities with their own hostels, dining halls and other facilities. Students receive pastoral care and whole-person education, including formal and non-formal general education by means of close interaction with teachers and peers, and in some colleges, assemblies and college final year project. Colleges promote extracurricular social and athletic activities with an aim of building camaraderie among students. This focus on 'student orientated teaching', education through both formal teaching and student empowerment, distinguishes CUHK from other universities in the territory.

When the structure of the university was revamped in 1976, and the autonomy of the colleges diminished, Lord Fulton clarified the role of the colleges: "the natural home of student-oriented teaching is the college [which] is an association of senior and junior members come together in pursuit of shared academic interests and aims." He wrote that the colleges help students achieve "a sense of his or her personal significance and responsibility, and on that basis to enrich the common life." [5]

Colleges

CollegeChinese nameEstablishedMotto (in Chinese)Motto (in English)Master
Three founding colleges
New Asia College 新亞書院
1941
誠明Sincerity and intelligenceSiumi Maria Tam
Chung Chi College 崇基學院
1951
止於至善In Pursuit of ExcellenceFong Wing Ping
United College 香港聯合書院
1956
明德新民Make one's virtues shine and renew the peopleJimmy Chai-mei Yu
Fourth college
Shaw College 逸夫書院
1986
修德講學Cultivate virtue, go more deeply into what I have learnedAndrew Chi-fai Chan
Five new colleges
Morningside College 晨興書院
2006
博學 進德 濟民Scholarship, Virtue, ServiceNicholas Rawlins
S.H. Ho College 善衡書院
2006
文行忠信Culture, Morals, Devotion, TrustworthinessSamuel Sun Sai-ming
Lee Woo Sing College 和聲書院
2007
知仁忠和Wisdom, Humanity, Integrity, HarmonyJoseph Wan-yee Lau
Wu Yee Sun College 伍宜孫書院
2007
博學篤行Scholarship and PerseveranceRance P.L. Lee
CW Chu College 敬文書院
2007
修己澤人，儲才濟世Cultivating oneself and benefiting the communitySuk-ying Wong

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References

  1. ↑ "United College, CUHK - 香港中文大學聯合書院" . Retrieved 25 July 2015.
  2. ↑ "Morningside College" . Retrieved 25 July 2015.
  3. ↑ "S.H.HO College" . Retrieved 25 July 2015.
  4. ↑ CUHK College system Archived 2007-04-27 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ "Fulton's challenge to the Chinese U". South China Morning Post. 30 May 1976. p. 2.
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