Dear Participants,
Hope you have had a good sleep last night
Welcome to the Summer Institute!
- Today, the sessions will start at 8:45, with an Opening Remark from Professor Lin Goodwin, our Dean of Education.
- As you have known by now, our sessions today will be held in Runme Shaw Building, Room 101.
- It’s a good weather, but it’s warm. The dress code is Smart Casual
- Due to uncontrollable factors, our Mongolian participants will touch down only at noon, hence they will join us only in the afternoon.
- We have an adjusted schedule for today:
08:45 Dean: Opening
09:00 Kai-ming: Overview
09:15 Helen: Starting
10:00 Tea Break
10:30 Kai-ming: Asking the basic questions
12:00 Lunch
14:00 Jamil Salmi: Keynote
15:30 Tea Break
15:45 Anatoly: Case 1: Post-Soviet systems of higher education (Moderated by Nutsa)
17:00 End of sessions
18:30 Welcome Dinner
Guest Speaker: Herbert Chia: Big Data and Society Change (tentative title)
- One thing I should have asked: We have been using your email addresses for group communications, open to all participants. We should have asked for your permission. Please write to us to grant us the permission to us your email address for communications within the Summer Institute members. Before we have received permission from everybody, please write to us for group communications.
See you soon.
Kai-ming