Ivan Chung

"Pracademic" interculturalist, educator, community developer, and pastoral communicator...

I have spent 17+ years of multicultural leadership and educational management in university curricular and co-curricular education, int’l, local, and domestic student programming, teaching intercultural courses, as well as multiple years communicating vision, building partnerships with private, public, and non-profit organizations. As both the Senior Manager of Co-curricular Learning in the Residences at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (July, 2016 to present), and as Director of Int’l Student Services at Biola University (August, 2006-2013), I led complex, outcomes-based multicultural, international, and integrated education programs. I provided vision, leadership & management and direction for many faculty, staff, and undergraduate/graduate global students/Fulbright scholars, underrepresented, and exchange students of the University every year.

My work included directing various student, staff, and faculty engagement tasks, achievement of various learning competencies, experiential learning, multicultural educational development, budget planning, supervision of others, leadership and intercultural development, policy formation and implementation, scholarship building, adjunct faculty teaching, close mentorship and student development, and initiation of innovative campus-wide programs.

As a licensed/ordained clergyman, humanitarian advocate, and fundraiser, I created/managed partnerships and fundraising for various projects with over 380 private, public, non-profit organizations, in multiple urban centers across North America, in educational/religious sectors, spanning ethnic, cultural, and socio-economic strata. I also provided close pastoral care, education, and mentorship for hundreds of culturally diverse youth. During my formative years, I lived several months of each year abroad in politically/religiously restricted countries, and now involved in education consulting, community development, and speaking in partner organizations in east Africa (post-genocide areas of 5 countries), Latin America, and east Asia.

I have spoken in 16 countries, and have been a leader, fundraiser, and scholarship organizer in non-profit organizations in urban/multicultural contexts all over the world. I have degrees in music performance, theology, education, and advanced degrees in divinity, intercultural studies, and intercultural education, and pursuing a professional doctorate in education.

Intercultural education manager and speaker for 12,300 local and non-local students, teaching on aspects of internationalization, int’l students, developed 3 overarching learning competencies for residential students (Whole-Person, Intercultural, and Servant-Leadership), along with 126 developmental-step learning rubrics, integrating education, student development, interculture (crossing cultures with competencies), multiculture (diversity and justice issues), emotional health, service learning, psychology, and leadership in a ResEd Strategic Plan, with learning rubrics now being integrated in all departments in Student Affairs. Creating innovative Programmes, including House of Intercultural Living and Learning (HILL), implemented during 2017-18 year, as intense co-curricular (non-formal, certificate-granting) Programme to achieve learning competencies above. Co-Investigator and Intercultural Trainer on 2 UGC-funded Projects in intercultural infrastructure projects in Belt & Road countries, and for residential students co-supervising various cross-cultural teams.

Overseeing mentorship of students in service learning, international fundraising for partnerships among east Africa universities and NGO’s. Speaker and intercultural trainer for various departments including Global Youth Leaders Institute, Office of Student Development, Student Resources and Residential Life, Office of Service Learning, International Affairs Office, Institute for Entrepreneurship. Direct supervisor and education manager of a total of 3 full-time staff, 68 post-graduate and staff tutors, working alongside 15 professor wardens, for local/non-local student programmes and integration partnerships.

Performing all student and staff appraisal, evaluations, and interviews. Serving in Tutor Appointment Committee alongside professors and Associate Dean. Student developer, educational, intercultural mentor for mostly STEM undergraduate and post-graduate students.

Provided leadership, administration, education, training, and vision for the purpose of campus internationalization - accentuating ethnic, socio-economic, and cultural global/local diversity; oversaw all services with and towards over 500 F-1 visa students and transnational students every academic year; oversaw budgets, academic/financial/immigration advising, student-led groups. Speaker and teacher at student gatherings as well as leader development, int'l student supervising, and event planning. Trained over 100 int'l student leaders and volunteers every year; trained and supervised faculty, staff, mentors, local community leaders; executed multiple cross-cultural projects internal/external campus.

Campus-wide speaker on interculture, spirituality, and student issues. Adjunct faculty member for intercultural studies on immigrant studies and outreach, cross-cultural leadership, urban studies, global/local intersections; published works on int'l student and immigrant outreach, intercultural competencies; networked with faith-based and non-faith-based universities on int'l students and internationalization; published works on immigration, immigrant outreach, intersections and cross-disciplinary issues of faith and work, urban theology and anthropology, internationalisation of higher education, cross-cultural missions and missions leadership, etc.

Bachelor of Music Performance, Master of Divinity, Master of Arts in Intercultural Studies, Doctorate in Education