{"id":871,"date":"2021-03-01T12:36:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T04:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qat-nus.nus.edu.sg\/nusbulletin\/ay202122\/?page_id=871"},"modified":"2022-12-07T16:24:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T08:24:36","slug":"provosts-welcome-message","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/nusbulletin\/ay202324\/provosts-welcome-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Provost&#8217;s Welcome Message"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h2><strong>Provost&#8217;s Welcome Message<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/nusbulletin\/ay202324\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2022\/05\/SP2_8640_1-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On behalf of the National University of Singapore, welcome to your first semester at the university. The NUS community is large, with more than 43,000 students and 6,700 faculty members and researchers in our 16 colleges, faculties, institutes, and schools.<\/p>\n<p>One of the distinctive aspects of studying at NUS is our General Education framework.\u00a0Once you have completed your General Education modules, you can choose from a variety of majors and minors, or double, joint, and concurrent degrees,\u00a0based on your professional and personal aspirations.<\/p>\n<p>You will begin your educational journey at NUS under a grade-free scheme, created to allow you to take risks\u00a0and enrol in classes\u00a0you never thought you would\u00a0take.\u00a0This is a great\u00a0opportunity to be\u00a0academically adventurous.<\/p>\n<p>As a\u00a0member of the NUS student\u00a0community,\u00a0you are able to tap into a rich well of opportunities, including living in one of our halls and residential colleges, joining a co-curricular activity, taking an internship, studying abroad, or joining a work-study programme at one of our overseas colleges and entrepreneurial hubs located across Asia and the world.<\/p>\n<p>The past few years have shown us that we all have a\u00a0social responsibility to one another. We have put in place a set of precautionary measures\u00a0so please adhere to them.\u00a0For NUS circulars, FAQs, and emergency contact numbers relating to the Covid-19 pandemic, you can go to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/emergency.nus.edu.sg\/\">emergency.nus.edu.sg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At NUS, we embrace lifelong learning. In 2018, we introduced the NUS Lifelong Learners (L<sup>3<\/sup>) programme, which allows you to return to the NUS community to continue learning for 20 years.\u00a0We will\u00a0support you in your\u00a0first year\u00a0as an undergraduate student,\u00a0and then after graduation to help you\u00a0grow in your career and pursue different\u00a0interests.<\/p>\n<p>Your educational journey at NUS has just begun. You will have many opportunities to become the person you want to be. 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