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Oral History Interview With Ruth Chiang: Growing Smu, Ruth Chiang
Oral History Interview With Ruth Chiang: Growing Smu, Ruth Chiang
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The interview covered: first involvement with SMU, first batch of SMU students, student creed, CIRCLE values, student community service, finishing touch program, career services including OnTrac, internship, graduate employment service, Dato’ Kho Hui Meng Career Centre.
Biography:
Director of the Office of Student Life and the Office of Career Services, SMU, 2000-2015
Ruth has a Master Degree in Communications Management from the University of South Australia; a graduate Diploma in Business Administration from NUS and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Economics from Singapore University. She is also an accredited administrator of personality inventories like MBTI, DISC, MAPP, Proscan, …
Oral History Interview With Low Aik Meng: Conceptualising Smu, Aik Meng Low
Oral History Interview With Low Aik Meng: Conceptualising Smu, Aik Meng Low
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The interview covered: first involvement with SMU, role and responsibilities, curriculum, student experience, first freshman team building camp, first classes, pioneer class, student activities, student ambassadors, community service, student hostel, student financial assistance.
Biography:
Founding Dean of Students, SMU, 2000–2011
Member of SMU start-up team
An SMU ‘pioneer’, Professor Low Aik Meng was one of the first three faculty to join the start-up team for the new university in 1998. Curriculum development was one his early responsibilities. Professor Low is best known for his next assignment—in 2000 he was appointed as SMU’s founding dean of students, a role in which …
Oral History Interview With Arnoud De Meyer: Conceptualising Smu, Arnoud De Meyer
Oral History Interview With Arnoud De Meyer: Conceptualising Smu, Arnoud De Meyer
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The interview covered: first involvement with Singapore, tertiary education in Singapore, business schools, role of university, city campus.
Biography:
President, SMU, 2010–present
Professor De Meyer became the fourth president of SMU in September 2010. A leader and well-known scholar in management studies, his research interests include manufacturing and technology strategy, management of R&D and innovation, management under conditions of high uncertainty and for novel projects, management and innovation in Asia, the globalisation of Asian firms, and e-readiness in Europe. He publishes widely in academic journals and books.
For twenty three years, Professor De Meyer was associated with INSEAD where he …
Oral History Interview With Tan Chin Tiong: Conceptualising Smu, Chin Tiong Tan
Oral History Interview With Tan Chin Tiong: Conceptualising Smu, Chin Tiong Tan
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The interview covered: first involvement with SMU, changes to concept plan, research, private university, faculty recruitment, challenges, marketing, advertising campaign, autonomous universities, collaboration with Wharton School, schools in SMU, change agent for education landscape, differentiating SMU, SMU students.
Biography:
Provost, SMU, 1999–2008, and Deputy President, SMU, 2007–2009
Member of SMU start-up team
In 1998 Professor Tan Chin Tiong was one of the first three faculty members who joined the start-up team to create what would become Singapore’s third university, SMU. Among his many responsibilities during the planning phase of SMU, he oversaw faculty recruitment, public relations and marketing, and the …