The 10th issue of SMU Engage can now be downloaded here or picked up free at selected locations on campus for a limited time only. Here is what Alan Goh, Vice President, Corporate Communications & Marketing, wrote in his Editor's Note.

Editor’s Note

Welcome to the final issue of SMU Engage, the corporate newsletter of Singapore Management University, for 2016. The lead story in this issue, and one of the highlights of the year for many in the SMU community, was the lecture by UN Secretary-General Mr Ban Ki-moon in SMU’s Ho Rih Hwa Leadership in Asia Public Lecture Series. This proved to be hugely popular, attracting an audience of 3,500 enthusiastic guests, which Mr Ban said was probably the largest gathering he had ever addressed.

This issue also includes features on two other large SMU events during the last few months – SMU’s 13^th Commencement for graduating students with Guest of Honour Minister for Education (Higher Education and Skills) and Second Minister for Defence Mr Ong Ye Kung; and SMU’s 17^th Convocation for freshmen, with Guest of Honour Chairman of Fung Group and Honorary Chairman of Li & Fung Limited Dr Victor Fung. The theme of ‘sports’ was chosen for Convocation this year, to mark the fantastic achievements of SMU students and alumni at the 18^th ASEAN University Games and to set the scene for the 2016 Paralympics , in which SMU students and alumni competed in three sports and undergraduate Yip Pin Xiu won two medals and set a new world record.

Also in the Zest section of the newsletter are stories on the return of the SMU Arts Festival, SMU Challenge community service initiative, continuing success in mooting competitions, our alumna winning the Young Accountant in Practice Award, an undergraduate winning a global essay competition and double success for SMU teams in a national programming competition.

The Academia section opens with the highly successful launch of the prestigious new Politics, Law and Economics major, which was more than 20 times oversubscribed. Announced for the next academic year is SMU’s Global Impact Scholarship Award which seeks to equip recipients to make strong societal impact and contributions on the world stage. There is more good news about SMU’s placement in the FT Rankings 2016. Building on its role as a leading Asian city university, SMU was host or organiser of the 6^th Annual SKBI Conference, SMU-TA Centre for Excellence in Taxation Annual Conference, MTI Economic Dialogue and SMU-ITE Financial Literacy Awareness Day.

On the back cover, we review SMU President Professor Arnoud De Meyer’s 2016 State of the University Address. In this he reviewed the University’s advance towards Vision 2025 over the past year and set forth his plans to ensure we “Accelerate” our rate of progress in the year ahead.

I hope you find the latest issue of our newsletter to be an engaging read and wish you the Season’s Greetings!

Alan Goh
Vice President
Corporate Communications & Marketing

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