Campus
collaborates with China universities
By Ramón Torres
On-line Forty-Niner
The
Cal State Long Beach College of Education
presented a brown bag lunch with the purpose
of introducing and discussing potential
collaborative projects in education with
universities in China.
“In July, Dee Abrahamse, the dean of [College
of] Liberal Arts, and I were part of a group
of 12 CSULB faculty who went to China to
talk with people at universities about linkages
like exchanges of students and faculty,”
said Jean Houck, dean of the College of
Education.
Students at CSULB might like to go to China
and take a course in the summer or winter
in Chinese language, Houck said.
“The faculty we talked to at the universities
over there would be glad to develop seminars
for CSULB students and we are working on
that,” Houck said.
Brown Bag 2002 followed the brown bag lunch
last year. The developing partnerships with
universities in China include: Beijing Normal
University, Beijing Language and Culture
University, and Nanjing Normal University.
The following components were included at
the brown bag presentation:
•
A brief overview of the involved universities,
which included the school’s profile, history,
and teaching and research achievements.
•
A highlight of activities from this summer’s
visit to the Chinese counterparts, with
the most important activity being the signing
of the international education cooperation
agreement in July.
•A
discussion of potential collaborative projects
with the Chinese universities, such as faculty
collaboration in research projects, application
of educational technology and distance learning.
International education is a global village
and when a student is sent to go out to
see the world and learn other cultures and
languages then they know there are enlargement
differences, said Pin Liu, associate professor
and coordinator of Asian BCLAD consortium,
a group that helps Asian students learn
English.
“From this program, the faculty over here
and the faculty in China, we all share expertise.
If we put them together, we can do so much,”
Liu said.
“Students at CSULB will benefit from the
agreements that we have with Chinese universities,”
said Shuhua An, assistant professor in the
education department.
“Especially
for undergraduates that, through our student
exchange agreement, students can go to China
learn the language and the culture.”
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