College of Business, City University of Hong Kong

The College of Business (CB; simplified Chinese: 商学院(城商); traditional Chinese: 商學院(城商)) is one of the five colleges at the City University of Hong Kong (CityU).

College of Business, City University of Hong Kong
香港城市大學商學院
Established1990
DeanProfessor Kalok CHAN
Academic staff
~160
Address, ,
AffiliationsCity University of Hong Kong
Websitewww.cb.cityu.edu.hk

Founded in 1990, CB has six departments providing undergraduate and postgraduate programs.[1]

Accreditation edit

CB is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business and the European Quality Improvement System.[2]

Rankings edit

CB is ranked 32nd worldwide and 2nd in Asia in the 2020 UT Dallas rankings,[3] based on research contributions from 2013-2017 in 24 leading journals in major business disciplines. It was ranked 58th worldwide and 5th in Asia in Economics and Business, in the U.S. News & World Report 2018 Best Global Universities rankings.[4]

CityU was ranked 52nd worldwide for the subject of "Business and Economics" by T.H.E. in 2023.

Controversies edit

Intervention of students' academic autonomy by Prof. TAN Yong Chin from the Department of Marketing edit

In October 2019, professor Tan Yong Chin who was teaching a digital marketing course sent an email to the students, which warned the students not to deliver any political messages in class presentations or they will be given zero marks. The e-mail caused dissatisfaction among the students. Some of them thought that their presentation was solely integrating the related course content with the recent social issues, while they did not call slogans in the classroom or affect the classroom order. They questioned Tan for creating white terror.[5]

  • The Student Union of CityU cross-checked the University Assessment Policy and Principles for Taught Programmes, and considered the marking policy of Tan to be violating the policy of the university and the university's promise of protecting freedom of speech[6]
  • Pro-democracy group Frontline Technology Workers pointed out that the relevant presentations were highly relevant to the course although it was touching the social controversies and criticized the professor for creating troubles and dispute.[7] They also highlighted many academic journal articles which discussed the relationship between politics and marketing.[8][9][10]

References edit

  1. ^ "Departments | College of Business". www.cb.cityu.edu.hk/About-the-College/Departments.
  2. ^ "Home | College of Business". www.cb.cityu.edu.hk. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  3. ^ "Worldwide Rankings - The UTD Top 100 Business School Research Rankings". jindal.utdallas.edu. Archived from the original on 24 March 2019. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  4. ^ "Search Best Global Universities". US News Education. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
  5. ^ "修例風波:禁學生簡報宣揚政治 城大教授被質疑製白色恐怖". on.cc東網 (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). 19 October 2019. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  6. ^ "香港城市大學學生會 City University of Hong Kong Students' Union". www.facebook.com (in Simplified Chinese). Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  7. ^ "前線科技人員". www.facebook.com (in Simplified Chinese). Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  8. ^ Botha, Elsamari (1 June 2014). "A means to an end: Using political satire to go viral". Public Relations Review. Public Relations and Communication Management in South Africa. 40 (2): 363–374. doi:10.1016/j.pubrev.2013.11.023. ISSN 0363-8111.
  9. ^ Holbert, R. Lance; Hmielowski, Jay; Jain, Parul; Lather, Julie; Morey, Alyssa (1 March 2011). "Adding Nuance to the Study of Political Humor Effects: Experimental Research on Juvenalian Satire Versus Horatian Satire". American Behavioral Scientist. 55 (3): 187–211. doi:10.1177/0002764210392156. ISSN 0002-7642. S2CID 145783711.
  10. ^ Moufahim, Mona; Humphreys, Michael; Mitussis, Darryn; Fitchett, James (1 June 2007). "Interpreting discourse: a critical discourse analysis of the marketing of an extreme right party". Journal of Marketing Management. 23 (5–6): 537–558. doi:10.1362/026725707X212829. ISSN 0267-257X. S2CID 143368512.

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