Adopting the four-pronged approach from CUHK’s University Strategic Plan 2021-2025, this roadmap prepares students comprehensively for their life journeys —- from initial engagement to a flourishing life. Acknowledging each student’s unique characteristics, strengths, orientations, and readiness, it provides flexible entry points, allowing participation at any suitable stage.
- Engage
Activities engage students with empathetic concern for others and nature, social engagement, creative and adaptive life planning, and a growth mindset. These are designed to develop desirable values, attitudes, and skills as part of enhanced student orientation and first-year experience programmes. - Explore
Enabling students to explore interests and aspirations, hone skills through career planning, local/national/international social engagement, and opportunities from Colleges, SEDS, and other units. It includes overseas exposures and global learning opportunities, reflects on national/global issues, and develops intercultural sensibility and skills. - Embrace
This phase focuses on further developing values and attitudes through experience and reflection. Students translate insights into practice, design action plans for self-engagement, relating to others, and serving the community via social engagement opportunities with the support from the University. - Evolve
Providing continuous support for students to apply their knowledge, values, and plans in real-life situations, fostering further self-enhancement and societal contribution. It emphasises developing and dynamically reconstituting a personal life plan throughout their journey. - Flourish
Reaping the benefits of development and empowerment, students grow with desired values and skills to become responsible, productive members of society. Graduates will be mature adults navigating diversity and complexities, embracing a growth mindset with adaptability and creativity, and possessing strong ethical character focused on human welfare and societal betterment.
Adopting the four-pronged approach from CUHK’s University Strategic Plan 2021-2025, this roadmap prepares students comprehensively for their life journeys – from initial engagement to a flourishing life. Acknowledging each student’s unique characteristics, strengths, orientations, and readiness, it provides flexible entry points, allowing participation at any suitable stage.
Engage
Activities engage students with empathetic concern for others and nature, social engagement, creative and adaptive life planning, and a growth mindset. These are designed to develop desirable values, attitudes, and skills as part of enhanced student orientation and first-year experience programmes.
Explore
Enabling students to explore interests and aspirations, hone skills through career planning, local/national/international social engagement, and opportunities from Colleges, SEDS, and other units. It includes overseas exposures and global learning opportunities, reflects on national/global issues, and develops intercultural sensibility and skills.
Embrace
This phase focuses on further developing values and attitudes through experience and reflection. Students translate insights into practice, design action plans for self-engagement, relating to others, and serving the community via social engagement opportunities with the support from the University.
Evolve
Providing continuous support for students to apply their knowledge, values, and plans in real-life situations, fostering further self-enhancement and societal contribution. It emphasises developing and dynamically reconstituting a personal life plan throughout their journey.
Flourish
Reaping the benefits of development and empowerment, students grow with desired values and skills to become responsible, productive members of society. Graduates will be mature adults navigating diversity and complexities, embracing a growth mindset with adaptability and creativity, and possessing strong ethical character focused on human welfare and societal betterment.
