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The vice-chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Rocky Tuan Sung-chi has resigned from the top post, the report said.
According to the report, Tuan on Tuesday said he made his decision as a new governance structure had been implemented following the amendment of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Ordinance.
“I believe now is an opportune moment for the university to search for a new vice-chancellor and president,” Professor Tuan said.
“Serving the CUHK community has been an extraordinary honour and a privilege. Hong Kong is my home. It was humbling to be given the opportunity to return here and be entrusted with the noble responsibility to deliver the core mission of this great institution.” he added.
The 72-year-old Professor said that he would stay in the role for one year as part of the leadership transition.
John Chai Yat-Chiu, the chairman of the CUHK council, said he received Tuan's letter on Monday, Jan 8.
It was learned earlier that Professor Tuan has been recently battling as Hong Kong's lawmakers are making plans to overhaul the institution’s governing council. Meanwhile, Tuan had failed to present at any Legislative Council meetings on the matter, citing illnesses, the report said.
The resignation news was after CUHK's vice-president and secretary Eric Ng Shu-pui, who was said to be Tuan's right-hand man, was fired by the CUHK Council last month, with the Council saying they can no longer trust Ng to support their work.
The earlier report said Ng signed a petition with some 1,200 university alumni in July to oppose a Legislative Council bill to downsize the Council.
At the same time, Professor Tuan was condemned during the 2019 protest as he was accused of being too sympathetic towards student protesters.
Professor Rocky S. Tuan assumed office as the eighth Vice-Chancellor and President of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) on 1 January 2018. Born and raised in Hong Kong, he pursued further studies in the United States and received his PhD in Life Sciences in 1977 from Rockefeller University in New York.
段崇智教授辭去香港中文大學校長職務
報道稱，香港中文大學副校長段崇智已辭去校長職務。
據報道，段週二表示，他做出這項決定是因為《香港中文大學條例》修訂後實施了新的治理結構。
「我相信現在是大學物色新校長和校長的好時機，」段教授說。
「為香港中文大學社區服務是一項非凡的榮譽和榮幸。 香港是我的家。 能夠有機會回到這裡並被賦予履行這個偉大機構的核心使命的崇高責任，我感到非常榮幸。” 他加了。
這位 72 歲的教授表示，作為領導層過渡的一部分，他將留任一年。
香港中文大學校董會主席柴逸超表示，他於 1 月 8 日星期一收到段的信函。
早些時候獲悉，段教授最近一直在與香港立法會制定改革該機構管理委員會的計劃進行鬥爭。 報道稱，同時，段先生以生病為由，未能出席任何有關此事的立法會會議。
辭職消息是在中大副校長兼秘書長吳樹培上個月被中大校董會解僱後傳出的，據說他是段的得力助手，校董會表示不能再相信吳樹培會支持他們的事業。工作。
早先的報道稱，吳於7月與約1,200名大學校友簽署了一份請願書，反對立法會縮小立法會規模的法案。
同時，段教授在2019年的抗議活動中受到譴責，被指控過於同情學生抗議者。
段 崇智教授於2018年1月1日就任香港中文大學（中大）第八任校長兼校長。他在香港出生長大，後赴美國深造，並取得博士學位。1977 年獲得紐約洛克菲勒大學生命科學學位。
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