Exchange Database
September 18, 2014
Webster University and its partner, Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU) provide an annual Chinese Studies program in Beijing during the Fall semester. The content of the program is presented and discussed in English. One course is devoted to Chinese culture and “getting around China in very basic Chinese.”
August 15, 2002
The Tufts-in-China Program, which began in 2002, is based in Hangzhou, China, at Zhejiang University, one of the top seven universities in China. Tufts in China has four major components of the program which complement one another: intensive language training; culture courses taught in English; exploring China through traveling and studying; and volunteer and internship opportunities, which allow students to experience Chinese society as active participants.
September 1, 2014
Illinois State University offers a study abroad program in Shanghai with host institution Tongji University. Tongji University has two campuses, Siping and Jiading, where students may take Chinese culture classes, Mandarin language classes, and ITK and computer science courses.
May 17, 2015
In spring of 2014, Professor Jensen Zhang, director of Syracuse University’s Building Energy and Environmental Systems Laboratory, led a group of students from SU to Nanjing, China. There, they joined students from Nanjing University and Aalto University in Finland to explore the design, engineering, construction and operation of sustainable green buildings. The effort was in collaboration with Professor Michael Pelken, a former faculty member in Syracuse University's School of Architecture.
April 24, 2015
American golfer Tiger Woods, 14-time major champion, met former NBA Rockets center Yao Ming on his commercial visit in Shanghai on April 24, 2015 and the two stars exchanged skills on their respective specialized sport.
October 1, 2014
About 20 exchange students from the Shanghai Experimental School visited Mamaroneck High School as part of a week-long trip to the United States from China. The Chinese students shadowed their “brothers/sisters” to classes and took sightseeing trips to New York City, West Point, Sleepy Hollow, apple orchards, nature centers and even Woodbury Commons to shop.
February 1, 2015
Aumsville, Oregon hosted 17 students and their escorts from the provincial capital of Sichuan province in Southwest China. The students, ranging from 9 to 11 years, visited for nine days and participated in a wide array of activities, then delivered a performance at an Aumsville Elementary School assembly on Tuesday, Feb. 10, before departing for home the next day.
January 1, 2015
I Fei Chang, a Taiwan native and Yale grad, will represent Chinese development firm Greenland USA in overseeing $6 billion worth of real estate development in the U.S. One project is the billion dollar Metropolis hotel, condominium, and shopping complex. All four buildings along the 110 Freeway north of L.A. Live are expected to be completed in 2018.
May 1, 2015
In March 2015, four elementary school teachers came from Beijing to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to learn about how teachers integrate autistic students into the regular classroom and how to customize curriculum for special needs students. The teachers are training at Duquesne University and have observed classes in the Pittsburgh Public Schools system.
May 22, 2015
Mayor Roy Buol of Dubuque, Iowa will join a delegation of local business and education leaders traveling to Dubuque's sister city in China next month. The group will visit Handan, which is located in the Hebei province in northeast China, from May 22 to May 31. Among those joining Buol will be Rick Dickinson, president of the Greater Dubuque Development Corp., Liang Chee Wee, president of Northeast Iowa Community College, and Dick Landis, chairman of Dubuque's Sister City Relationships Advisory Commission.