 As part of the project , ML Pin made preparations for the founding of Chiang Mai University , planning the campus and beginning construction , but the authority over the project was ultimately transferred to the Office of the Educational Council . He served three terms as President of Silpakorn University from 1965 to 1971 , during which he founded the university 's Sanam Chandra Palace Campus . There he intended to established a collegiate university system following that used at Oxford , as advised when he was Permanent Secretary of Education by Prime Minister Pibulsonggram , and Thap Kaew College was opened in 1968 . However , the college system turned out to be unsuccessful , lacking support from both the student body and the government , and was dissolved . 
