Rationale

College Dining is an integral and required part of students’ college life at CW Chu College. It aims to

• enhance interaction among students and with teachers
• enable students to benefit from the wisdom and experience of speakers from various walks of life

There are two types of College dinners, namely Communal Dining (CD) and High Table Dinners (HTD).

In normal circumstances, College Dining is included as one of the non-credit bearing parts of the College General Education Programme (through pre-assignment of the courses GECW 1000/ 2000/ 3000/ 4000).  There is a minimum attendance requirement in order to receive a passing grade of each of the courses. Upon assignment to the College, students are automatically enrolled onto a meal plan, which includes communal dinners three times per week during term time and HTD a few times per year.

Students who are enjoying the hostel residence for the first four years must join the meal plan.  Normally, there is no reduction or refund of meal plan payment.

With the suspension of College meal plan in Term 1, 2024–25 (students may refer to mass email Ref: #014/ 2024–25 for details), a new activity requirement is set for CWC students in Term 1 with details as follows.

Attendance Requirements for GECW1000/ 2000/ 3000/ 4000 in Term 1, 2024–25

(i) All CWC students assigned to the above CGE courses in Term 1, 2024–25 are required to participate in 5 activities accepted by the College for receiving a PP grade this term.

(ii) The new activity requirement stated under (i) is also applicable to students who have been granted CD exemption by the Dean of Students (DoS) in Term 1.

(iii) For Year 1 students taking GECW1000, their attendance at the 4 compulsory sessions of Extended Orientation in September 2024 will also be counted.

Eligible Activities

To fulfill the requirement of 5 activities, any physical or virtual activities chosen from the following list are considered acceptable:

• Any planned or upcoming activities covered in their year plans for 2024–25 and organized by the official student bodies of CWC (e.g. Student Honour Code Committee) and/or new student clubs recognized by the College. Activity organization also counts.*
• Any planned or upcoming activities organized by the College Office and Resident Tutors (RTs) formally announced via the College mass email and other promotional channels.
• Any sports activities arranged by the College or jointly organized with other official units.
• Participation, as an audience/ performer/ participant etc., in face-to-face or virtual cultural activities (broadly defined) organized by the College or other units within or outside the University (including other CUHK units/ Faculties/ Departments/ Programmes/ outside organizations). These activities include but not limited to concerts, plays, dramas, films, operas, cultural tours, art fairs, museum tours, talks, workshops, conferences etc.

* Note: As a matter of principle, service should be completely voluntary without any other motives. Therefore, activities organized by the CWC Service Team (whether joining as Service Team Members or general participants) will not be counted.

Attendance Taking

Records of participated College activities: recorded by the College within two weeks upon completion of each activity at Registration and Attendance System (here)

Online Record Form for ‘Self and Significant Others” programme: students to submit by 2 Dec 2024 (Mon, 5:30 pm) (here)

Online Record Form for Cultural Activities: students to submit by 2 Dec 2024 (Mon, 5:30 pm) (here)