On May 9th, 2016, the 35thSILC Board Meeting is held at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). Members of the Board, including Prof. Jin Donghan, President of Shanghai University (SHU), Prof. Gong Siyi, member of Standing Committee of Party Committee of SHU and Dean of SHU-UTS SILC Business School (SILC), Prof. Attila Brungs, Chancellor of UTS, Prof. William Purcell, Vice Chancellor of UTS, and Prof. Roy Green, Dean of UTS Business School etc., attend the meeting. Mr. Tim Laurence, Deputy Director of Insearch, UTS, Ms. Yang Midi, Deputy Director of Finance Department of SHU, and Prof. Shi Ying, Deputy Director of Science and Technology Department of SHU also attend the meeting.
Prof. Lv Kangjuan, Deputy Dean of SILC, reported the 13thFive-year Plan to the Board. The Board agrees unanimously on the objective that SILC should set the world first-class business schools as benchmarks, give full play to its existing sino-foreign joint education advantages, and build itself into a domestic first-class and world-famous international applied business school. The Board also lets through the Four Differentiation Strategies and Six Tasks proposed by SILC for the 13thFive-year period. The four strategies include High-level faculty team and academic development strategy, High-quality talent development strategy, International strategy and Reform and innovation strategy. The six concrete tasks include: 1) intensify education and teaching reform, and optimize quality of talent training, 2) develop advantageous subjects and build competitiveness of social services, 3) reform employment system and develop a high-quality team of faculty, 4) speed construction of an international business school with support of global accreditation, 5) boost international cooperation and build an international education “Silk Road”, and 6) innovate system and mechanism and lead the sustainable development of joint education programs.
Prof. Tracy Taylor, Deputy Dean of Business School of UTS reports the progress of the joint-employment work. UTS and SILC have reached an agreement on the joint-employment mechanism and its related follow-up work, which is aimed at building up a faculty team with strong academic leadership and influence. Ms. Fang Hui, Director of Finance & Accounting Department of SILC, on behalf of the financial work team, reports the final accounts of 2015 and the budget of 2016, and predicts and analyzes the relevant situations of the 13th Five-year Plan. In addition, the Board has a deep discussion on the issues such as the development of UTS Master Program and the offices prepared for teachers of the joint-employment system.
This Board meeting has set a clear direction for the development of SILC during the 13th Five-year period and in the future. The cooperative parties will jointly make further efforts to push the development of SILC into a higher level, direct the sustainable development of the joint sino-foreign education programs, and lead SILC to keep forging ahead toward the grand objective of becoming a domestic first-class and world-famous international applied business school.
