Chu Kochen Honors College (simplified Chinese: 竺可桢学院; traditional Chinese: 竺可楨學院; abbr. CKHC), is an elite undergraduate college of Zhejiang University.
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The college is named after the former President of Zhejiang University, the meteorologist, geologist and educator Coching Chu (a.k.a. CHU Kochen, or ZHU Kezhen, depending on the method of spelling).[1] The college traces its historical origins to 1984, and was established in May 2000. Currently it has students of 1800. Every year, Zhejiang university selects about 400 top students (from its ~6000 freshmen) to join the college. The current Vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Pan Yunhe (also the former President of Zhejiang University), was the first director of the college.
In 1984, Zhejiang University initiated a pilot project called Mixed Class (i.e., Honors Program of Engineering), which “mixes” outstanding freshmen from different departments into an elite class, where the strength of Zhejiang University’s engineering courses can be combined with the advantage of her long-established science courses. In May 2000, Chu Kochen Honors College was established on the basis of Mixed Class (Honors Program of Engineering), Undergraduate Program for Advanced Engineering Education, Intensive Training Program of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The diverse model of Mixed Class (Honors Program of Engineering) was then extensively applied to more elite students in the Honors Programs of Liberal Arts&Social Sciences, Sciences, and Engineering. This new stroke of renovation enabled the development of Chu Kochen Honors College to turn a new chapter.
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