Focus on Hong Kong Investment Immigration and Hong Kong Education: How should the new generation of university students take on social responsibility? To explore this issue, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University recently held a series of activities promoting university social responsibility.
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University has innovatively incorporated community service into credit assessment, requiring each undergraduate to complete 3 credits in this subject.
Chen Zhihui, the director responsible for service learning at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, stated that many universities encourage students to participate in community service, but few offer them credits. Our university requires every student to participate, which is quite rare globally. We first require every undergraduate to complete a 3-credit service learning course before graduation, primarily hoping they will use their academic expertise to serve society.
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University launched this program in 2012, with only over a hundred participants in the first year, but by 2013, 1,900 students were involved. From 2014 to 2015, the university expects 3,000 students to engage in community service. Currently, there are over 50 courses related to community service at the university, and this will continue to expand. This initiative by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University has received widespread acclaim from university management worldwide at the summit forum. Additionally, the university hosted the first International Conference on Service Learning and the "Heartfelt Service" project showcase, aiming to establish effective platforms to connect renowned higher education institutions globally in collaboration on university social responsibility and to broaden the future development perspective of university social responsibility.
