(GLOBAL TALK SERIES) Prof.Chang Ching - Ray

 

 

      "Building strong industry-Academia collaborations 

            for greater funding and less tuition fee-dependent"

Last week on 2 march 2017 , I have attended a global talk series by Prof. Chang Ching-Ray at bilik Senat Canselori UKM .The traditional model of higher education attraction based on ranking is no longer the only working model due to the changing demands of students and the industry . Universities are now gaining a concrete reputation for its proactive approaches , relevance and direct impacts to the stakeholders. What should a university do facing this new changes. The talk is share about NTU (NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY) experiences and also some observations from other universities.

Prof Chang Ching -Ray are the Vice President of Administrative affairs, National Taiwan University. He received the B.S degree in Physics from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan and also have received his phd. Degree in Physics from University of California, San Diego.He was invited to share with us on the very pertinent issues that are affecting Malaysian University. One is in Malaysian to stronger industry academic high. The other one is on funding issues and thirdly is issues regarding on experienced with National Taiwan University.

What is university ? Is a community of teachers and scholars . Based on Prof Chang, China pumps money into Higher Education a lot , Money can not do everything but without money university can not do anything .  Every year university spend a lot of money for expenses, greater funding and less tuition fee-dependent ? So it's impossible to sustain without fully supporting from government especially  . NTU at a glance , have 11 colleges , 3 professional schools in Asia , 54 department ,109 graduate institutes and 66 research centers . He also mention on  his talk about challenging issues such as human resources structure changes and after that he also show to us the financial strategy using slides. From the slides, we can see how they divided their financial into several parts strategically. So is very important every university have their own financial strategy to get for more income and budget savings .Example KONKUK UNIVERSITY KOREA produce their own food product to sell for get more income.

The talk also have mention about challenges and perspectives such as flagship university in Taiwan, cutting-edge and in disciplinary research, globalization and international competitiveness, cultivate leaders and emphasize social responsibility, ecosystem for innovation and entrepreneurship, a gateway  to Chinese culture and commitment to be “Great University”. Each university should have their own taste , just like different restaurant should have their own receipts . Every 5 year  NTU must evaluate professor performance and he also have talk about the problem when in organization  10 people at office and other 2 people didn't do anything .

 Besides that,he also have mention about collaboration , " If you want to go fast , go alone but if you want go far , go together " so we really needs friends to go far , so is important collaboration university between university . It is very difference 3 university and single university  , like Chinese story " three monks had no water to drink " one monk will shoulder two buckets of water, two monks will share the load, but add a third and no one will want to fetch water.

   Lastly ,Prof chang also have share the activities according NTU for example , NTUS forum with  Alibaba billionaire Jack Ma(马云与青年有约） , and (迎战VUCA 时代 , Are you ready )  do university together . VUCA is acronym used to describe or reflect on the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity of general conditions and situations. According to Prof. Chang Ching-Ray, VUCA is you can do anything as your wish.