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Californian graduates to spearhead PolyU's switch to 4-year degrees

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A trio of Californian university graduates dominates the new, beefed-up senior management team that will lead Polytechnic University through the transition to four-year degrees.

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An eight-strong team including the new posts of provost and executive vice-president was unveiled yesterday at the Hung Hom campus, after it won unanimous backing from the university's ruling council.

The team, which will replace seven senior academics who are stepping down over the coming year, completes the new administration of president Professor Timothy Tong Wai-cheung, who himself was a postgraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley.

The key post of provost goes to Professor Philip Chan Ching-ho, formerly dean of engineering at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, who took his first degree at the University of California, Davis.

The provost will plan and oversee academic development.

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Professor Nicholas Yang, currently chief executive of the Cyberport management company, will be the new executive vice-president, responsible for planning all non-academic activities. Yang graduated from Caltech and took his masters degree at Stanford.

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