We launched Singapore’s first and only Bachelor of Arts in Tamil Language and Literature (BATL) degree, which catered to adults who aspire to enhance their competency and knowledge levels in Tamil language and literature.

Classes commenced with our first intake. This included students from the SIM Open University Degree Programme, ran in collaboration with the Open University, from the United Kingdom.

We held our first Convocation with the late former President of Singapore, Mr S R Nathan, as our Patron and Professor Cham Tao Soon as our Chancellor.

We launched our alumni network to nearly 8,000 members, including graduates of our partner universities such as the prestigious Beijing Normal University. This opened an exciting channel for lifelong intellectual and emotional connectedness between past and future graduates.

We signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with ST Aerospace, Cranfield University and Singapore Polytechnic, collaborating on the launch of Asia Pacific’s first broad-based aerospace degree programme. We also announced the first specialised Human Resource Management Degree in Singapore.

The results of Singapore’s first comprehensive graduate survey for working adults were released, showing that a degree from our university led to better pay, career mobility and prospects.

We signed a Memorandum of Understanding with NTUC’s SEED Institute for the first local Bachelor of Early Childhood Education programme. Supported by the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports as well as Workforce Singapore, the programme was oversubscribed three times for its first run in January 2010.

We held our first e-learning conference, ICT 2010 Singapore, with 300 participants from 16 countries in attendance. Supported by the Infocomm Development Authority, the conference included a forum and four keynote presentations, of which two were delivered via video-conference from San Diego (USA) and Berlin (Germany).

Also, our university was registered under the Enhanced Registration Framework administered by the Council for Private Education for a 6-year period.

We set up the Centre for Chinese Studies to raise awareness and understanding of the Chinese language, culture and contemporary Chinese society.

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced that we were participating in the government's plan to increase the publicly-funded full-time cohort size. Our part-time students would also get to enjoy government bursaries and loans like their counterparts at other autonomous local universities.

Mr Gerard Ee, widely recognised for his social service contributions, succeeded Professor Cham Tao Soon as our Chancellor and Chairman of the Board of Trustees.

We celebrated our university’s tenth year anniversary with former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, and more than 500 guests from our university, academic and industry circles.

We partnered with the Institute for Adult Learning to further research in areas such as workforce development and lifelong learning, as well as the capability development of educators and researchers.

We conquered the great Gobi Desert by trekking 112 km through areas that were part of the old Silk Road.

Ms Indranee Rajah SC, then Senior Minister of State for Law and Finance, addressed our inaugural class of law students, handpicked from over 400 applicants of our Bachelor of Laws and Juris Doctor programmes.

A Bill was passed in Parliament to formalise the autonomous university (AU) status of SUSS. With this, SUSS was another step closer to becoming Singapore's sixth AU, one focused on lifelong learning, the social sciences and applied education. We also pioneered the SkillsFuture Work-Study Post-Diploma (formerly known as SkillsFuture Earn and Learn Programme) for polytechnic students.

We were formally accorded the status of an autonomous university (AU) by the Singapore Government and held our inaugural Convocation where we unveiled the new SUSS mace at the Ceremonial Procession. To commemorate our AU status, we launched The Heart of Learning, a book where SUSS faculty members shared their perspectives on key socio-economic issues and higher education.

We launched the new SUSS Core Curriculum, focusing on holistic education alongside the launch of e-textbooks to drive digital learning.

In the same period, our Advancement Office was established, raising more than S$3.5 million to help students in need of financial assistance, including S$200,000 in scholarships for aspiring lawyers at the School of Law.

The School of Arts and Social Sciences was also renamed the School of Humanities and Behavioural Sciences with a renewed focus on human experiences and behaviour.

We launched SUSS LifE, our lifelong and experiential learning brand of education designed to offer continual educational opportunities to develop people throughout their lives. Mr Chee Hong Tat, Senior Minister of State for Education and Trade & Industry, was the Guest-of-Honour for the launch. Our new College of Lifelong and Experiential Learning (CLEL) was also incepted to spearhead SUSS LifE. It consolidates, integrates and synergises our various lifelong learning and experiential activities for greater effectiveness and efficiency.

We hosted the 7^th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning for the first time in Singapore, in our capacity as Secretariat of the Service-Learning Asia Network and welcomed 365 participants from close to 20 countries.

Minister for Social and Family Development and Second Minister for National Development, Mr Desmond Lee, was the Guest-of-Honour at the event.

Indonesian President Mr Joko Widodo attended Convocation 2019 in his personal capacity as the father of one of our graduates, Kaesang Pangarep, who also received one of the three inaugural SUSS-EMP Alumni Entrepreneurship Awards from President Halimah Yacob, also our university's Patron.