United College of Hong Kong
college of Chinese University of Hong Kong
The United College of Hong Kong is one of the constituent colleges of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, a public university in New Territories, Hong Kong. The college is one of the three original colleges when the university was founded in 1963. It was founded in June 1956 by the amalgamation of five colleges: Wah Kiu, Canton Overseas, Wen Hua, Kwang Hsia and Ping Jing, members of a group of post-secondary colleges or former private universities based in Kwangtung (Guangdong).
Motto
The motto of the United College is "Ming De Xin Min" (明德新民), meaning "make one's virtues shine and renew the people". It was modified from a passage in the old classic The Great Learning (大學).
College heads
Heads of United College:
Dr Tseung Fat-im (1957–1959)
Dr Lin Dao-yang (1960–1963)
Dr Cheng Tung-choy (1963–1977)
Professor Hsueh Shou-sheng (1977–1980)
Professor Chen Tien-chi (陳天機) (1980–1988)
Professor Lee Cheuk-yu (1988–1998)
Professor Wong Kwan-yiu (1998–2002)
Professor Fung Kwok-pui (2002–2012)
Professor Yu Jimmy Chai-mei (2012 – 2023)
Professor Stephen H S Wong (2023 – present)
Main buildings and facilities
Tsang Shiu Tim Building
The administrative building of the United College. Choi Koon Shum General Education Resource Centre, established in 1995, is located on the fourth floor of the building.
T. C. Cheng Building
A building mainly serves for educational purposes.
Si Yuan Amenities Centre
Established in 2001, it is located on the lower ground floor of T. C. Cheng Building. Its most well-known feature is the bar, which is the only one in the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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