End-of-Year Note (1)

It is exciting to witness the drastic changes at a fledgling university like Ma Chung. Changes have taken place, the power map is shifting; if you are smart and cautious, you’d mull over the changes, use them to anticipate what is coming in the years to come, and start playing your cards in order to promote the most conducive working atmosphere at Ma Chung.

Gone is the once popular lecturer who is good at motivating but does poor jobs in managing the curriculum. A good lesson: a brilliant motivator is . . . . a brilliant motivator, that’s it. You cannot expect someone to be an all-round player. One only excels in a certain area of expertise, but definitely needs the assistance and contribution from others to accomplish tasks in the other domains. Remember what Patrisius said in one of his Moment of Truth presentation: everyone only plays a slice of the whole circle. To get the whole circle to function properly, other people with different skills, talent, and specialties need to be given equal chances to play their roles.

Then there are three Indian ‘lecturers’ who came only to screw up the teaching quality with their reckless preparation and unfriendly demeanor. Beware! Our students are getting sick of them, and unless proper actions are taken to remedy the situation, our students will turn their silent fuming into loud protests, and that’s bad. My suggestion: stop these Indian amateurs from teaching! Now! We just cannot afford to entrust our students to these low-qualities teachers.

A laudable thing: EPSBED is now in good hands. This routine reporting to the Kopertis is vital, and a very timely transfer of a formerly Quality Assurance staff to the Academic Affairs will hopefully ensure constant and proper reporting of EPSBED to the Kopertis.

My directorate, meanwhile, is running a series of evaluation and is going to make a year-end reporting of the major aspects of the university: managerial skills, advisory skills, teaching performances, and qualities of facilities and academic atmosphere. Wait, 2009 will witness me and Prita shape these important elements with a series of training and workshop.

Ma Chung rocks!