Hong Kong Baptist University looks to hire 100 of the ‘best and brightest’ professors
Move is part of plans to improve teaching and research in creative media, health and drug discovery, data analytics and artificial intelligence
Hong Kong Baptist University has set an ambitious target to hire 100 of the “best and brightest” professors within the next five years to help transform the institution into a “leading liberal arts university” in Asia, its president said on Tuesday.
The drive to recruit 100 new academic staff, part of the university’s 10-year strategic plan, will mainly focus on strengthening teaching and research in three clusters: creative media; health and drug discovery; data analytics and artificial intelligence.
These areas include subjects such as film, graphics, visual and media arts, Chinese medicine, chemistry, microbiology, data-journalism and fintech.
HKBU’s president and vice-chancellor Roland Chin Tai-hong said the plan was not about chasing world rankings.
“We are now at a turning point where we aim to become a leading, research-led, liberal arts university in Asia for the world,” Chin said.
“We’re not going after [university] rankings, that isn’t about education … We want to hire the best and brightest professors from around the world to come and teach and do research here,” he said.