HKBU ISP 2018-2028

Strategic Plan

2018 - 2028

Climb High  Gaze Far

Global

Caring

Creative

Vision Statement

To be a leading liberal arts University
in Asia for the world delivering
academic excellence in a caring,
creative and global culture.

Refreshed in September 2017

Mission

HKBU is committed to academic excellence
in teaching, research and service, and to
the development of the whole person in all
these endeavours built upon the heritage of
Christian higher education.

攀高望遠

Cover photo by Kelvin Yuen, Year 4 student of Applied Biology
Winning photo of the Youth Division of National Geographic’s
International Photo Contest 2015 (Taiwan Section)

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Old from Young, Young from Old

Professor Atara Sivan and Professor Vicky Tam of the Department of
Education Studies have developed a unique inter-generational learning
community of HKBU students and staff, secondary school students and
older adults. Through ongoing interactive engagement in planning and
implementing collaborative activities, the learning community encourages
positive youth development, fosters personal attributes, enhances self-
confidence and narrows the generation gap.

WE
CARE

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From the Street
to National Theatre

HKBU music graduate Nancy Li provides free music
education to underprivileged children and took them to
perform at the National Centre for the Performing Arts
in Beijing.

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To the Edge of
Our Planet

Wilson Cheung is the first fully qualified Chinese Arctic expedition
tour guide in the world. A graduate from HKBU’s Physical Education
and Recreation Management, he was awarded 11 scholarships
which took him to all corners of the world.

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for the Big Screen: Brought up in a grass-roots family,
Stevefat Chan dared to pursue his dream in big screen
filmmaking. With a $2 million budget sponsored by the
Government, Stevefat’s debut feature film was a huge
success, scooping prestigious awards.

WE
DARE

Hong Kong Baptist University 6 We are Music

We create music. We are music. With this belief, the Department of Music has
been nurturing talents in music composition, such as Joyce Tang, a world-
renowned composer whose works have been described by Ablaze Records as
“incisive and brilliant … a fresh compositional voice”.

WE
CREATE

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HKBU@OuterSpace

School of Chinese Medicine’s research on
microgravity and bone loss was the only
project by a team outside Mainland China to
be chosen for the maiden voyage of China’s
first cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-1. The team’s
astronomical goals are grounded in a simple
desire to improve healthcare and people’s
lives.

The World
is Our Campus

Finance student Jason Choi, the sole winner of
the CY Tung Scholarship from Hong Kong in
2017, spent a “Semester at Sea” during which
he learned without borders with people from
all over the world. The 100-plus days of eye-
opening experiences in 11 countries have made
a lasting impact on this aspiring youth committed
to serving the world.

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go GLOBAL

We Study in
40 Countries

Each year, hundreds of our students go abroad to intern and
study in about 40 different countries. Our professors engage in
international research collaborations, joining hands with scholars
and organisations around the globe on projects with real-world
impact.

Hong Kong Baptist University 10 Our Role

Back in 1956 Hong Kong Baptist University was a bold start-up, a private higher
education institute born from nothing, save the funding support from the Baptist
Convention plus the passion of a group of Chinese and American Christian
educators. Even by today’s standards that was a brave and visionary venture. Like
all start-ups, we encountered huge challenges in the early days, but for the last 60
years we constantly innovated, reinvigorated, and renewed. And so we succeeded,
gaining an enviable reputation for excellence in teaching, research, and service to
the community around us and beyond.

Today, HKBU is widely recognised for its distinctive education that prepares young
people with the innovative impulse and creative thinking that the 21st century
demands, and balances academic excellence with the development of the whole
person.

But in a rapidly changing world, success is transitory. To sustain our success, we
have to be future-ready. Our students have to be future-ready. This is why we set
out a 10-year strategic plan to take us to new heights as a research-led liberal arts
institution of global significance. We endeavour to offer the best student experience
and promote research excellence that advances knowledge, scholarship and
academic leadership fit for the development of Hong Kong, the nation, the region,
and the world.

Core objectives Strategic Plan 2018-2028 11

• To become a research-led liberal arts University of global significance
• To deliver the best student experience by emphasising integrity, creativity,

communication, employability, and commitment to the common good of humankind

• To produce world class research in selected clusters
• To solve problems for and with society
• To deliver academic excellence in a caring, creative, and global culture
• To sustain academic development through appropriate investments in

people, governance, and facilities

Hong Kong Baptist University 12 Our Aspirations

1Leading
University in Asia
HKBU aspires to:

• nurture students to become inspired,
confident, professional, and ethical leaders

• build partnerships with leading universities to
foster academic excellence

• promote Chinese and Asian values, knowledge
and cultures in the context of national, regional
and global knowledge network

2 Forthe 3 Delivering Academic Strategic Plan 2018-2028 13
World Excellence
HKBU seeks to: The University delivers academic
excellence by:
• empower students, staff and alumni to be
servant leaders • offering research-enriched and creative
curricula where diverse communities of
• promote cross-cultural understanding and learners work in world-class facilities and
meaningful world debates through trans- engage openly
disciplinary research collaborations
• investing in research capacity and strength,
• build communities that serve as catalysts and and achieving deep international partnerships
platforms to imagine new solutions to global
challenges • engaging meaningfully at home and abroad so
that flows of knowledge and skills can solve
local, regional and global challenges

Our Aspirations

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Culture

Caring means:

• preparing graduates to serve Hong Kong
and beyond through studies grounded in
community connectedness

• facilitating knowledge creation and transfer by
developing technology and serving society

• fostering learning and research culture that
anchors itself in global relevance and ethical
awareness

• taking care of students’ academic and
personal needs through close staff-student
relationships and mentoring

• maintaining valued relationships with alumni
and attending to the well-being of the HKBU
community

5 Creative 6 Global
Culture Culture
HKBU promotes creativity by: HKBU seeks to:

• allowing students to realise their unique • enhance the intercultural competencies and
potential, build intellectual confidence and global perspectives of students through
develop fulfilling professional and personal campus internationalisation, exchange and
lives foreign placement

• encouraging learners to think out of the box and • enlarge the University’s international profile
empowering them to reimagine themselves as and contribution so that its name becomes
creative innovators and entrepreneurs fit for synonymous with the very best that liberal arts
the 21st century education can be

• embracing diverse opinions and debates • work transparently and cross-culturally, and Strategic Plan 2018-2028 15
knowing that progress comes through adopt optimal practices for talent recruitment
collaboration, discussion, teamwork and the and development, governance, and
valuing of different views sustainable academic growth

Strategic Priorities
2018-2028

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1Strategic Best Student Experience

Priority

Objective To deliver the best student experience by emphasising integrity,
creativity, communication, employability, and commitment to the
common good of humankind.

We will achieve • a research-led curriculum
this through • cross-cultural learning experiences
• diverse and innovative learning methods and pedagogies to foster
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creativity and a cosmopolitan outlook
• enhanced service and experiential learning opportunities
• inclusive admissions for diversity

HKBU students work with peers from UC Berkeley on developing creative ideas at an entrepreneurship bootcamp.

Strategic Priorities 2018-2028

2Strategic Research Excellence

Priority

Objective To produce world class research in selected research clusters; and
to solve problems for and with society using close connections
between HKBU researchers and external stakeholders.

To achieve • develop clusters of strength to maximise knowledge outputs and impact
this we will • focus resources on strategic clusters
• build up research human capacity as well as broaden and deepen
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research training
• enhance the learning experiences of scholars and postgraduate students
• support diverse approaches to scholarship
• address community needs through applied research
• develop research collaborations with strategic partners around the world
• produce new knowledge that improves people’s lives.

Our 3 Research Clusters Strategic Plan 2018-2028 19

Creative Media/Practice

Film, graphics, literary arts,
music, and visual/media arts

Health and Drug
Discovery

Chinese medicine, chemistry,
microbiology, ageing, physical
education

Data Analytics and
Artificial Intelligence in X

Where X denotes applications
such as Data-journalism,
Data-healthcare, and Data-literature

3Strategic Capacity

Priority

Objective To sustain academic excellence through investments in people,
governance, and facilities.

We will achieve • a fit-for-purpose talent policy
this through
• a transparent and fair governance system with periodic review of
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• state-of-the-art facilities driven by the latest learning and research
needs

• a low-carbon and environmentally sustainable campus

• new funding sources and enhanced resource allocation policies

• global partnerships

• intelligence function – development of an institutional intelligent
data system fit for the needs of our advancing institution

• cosmopolitan campus life

• the Talent100 Initiative

The Talent 100 Initiative

• Recruit 100 new academic staff globally over the
next few years

• Aside from their contribution to the wider teaching
and service needs of the University, the new
academic staff will bolster the University’s strength
in research-focused areas

Hong Kong Baptist University
Kowloon Tong, Kowloon
Hong Kong
www.strategicplan2018-2028.hkbu.edu.hk

November 2017

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