Almost every week, members of Tembusu College are invited to meet and chat with guests – both local and international – through a variety of hosted events. There is a huge diversity of backgrounds amongst our visitors, who range from politicians to diplomats, artists, writers, poets, and academics. Select an event category on the left to find out more.
As a Residential College, residents of Tembusu College live and learn together with their peers under the same roof. Integral to the learning is the University Town College Programme (UTCP) where residents read five Seminar-style Modules over their two year residency. Find out more About the Programme or browse available modules on the left.
Concerned about the workload? Find out How UTCP Fits with your faculty-based degree programme at NUS.
Living and learning together at Tembusu happens as part of our ‘Out-of-Classroom Teaching‘ programme.
Keen to continue residing at the college after completing the UTCP? Find out what lies ahead in the Senior Learning Experience.
Tembusu College Master’s Tea
Mr Jim Rogers
3pm, Thursday
24th October 2013
Master’s Common Lounge,
Level 3, Residential Block
Refreshments will be served.
Only 30 seats available!
Please sign up at dev-tembusu-nus.pantheonsite.io
Jim Rogers, a native of Demopolis, Alabama, is an author, financial commentator, adventurer, and successful international investor. He has been frequently featured in Time, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Barron’s Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Business Times, The Straits Times and many media outlets worldwide. He has also appeared as a regular commentator and columnist in various media and has been a professor at Columbia University. After attending Yale and Oxford University, Rogers co-founded the Quantum Fund, a global-investment partnership. During the next 10 years, the portfolio gained 4200% while the S&P rose less than 50%. Rogers then decided to retire – at age 37 Continuing to manage his own portfolio, Rogers kept busy serving as a full professor of finance at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and, in 1989 and 1990, as the moderator of WCBS’s ‘The Dreyfus Roundtable’ and FNN’s ‘The Profit Motive with Jim Rogers’.
Between 1990 and 1999, Rogers broke the Guinness Book of World Records three times by motorcycling across six continents and travelling for 3 years round-the-world passing through 116 countries. He chronicled his journeys in Investment Biker: On the Road with Jim Rogers and Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip. His other books include Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably In The World’s Best Market, A Bull in China and more recently Street Smarts: Adventures on the Road and in the Markets.
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