Colorado State University recently hosted Southwest University Delegation led by President Weiguo Zhang. Other 4 delegation members included Xinyong Ge, Director in President’s Office; Fajun Zhang, Director of Office of International Cooperation and Exchanges; Zewen Huang, Party Secretary, Faculty of Psychology and Yang Wan from Office of International Cooperation and Exchanges. It was their first visit to Colorado State University. In about 3 weeks, CSU delegation will visit Southwest University as well.
Southwest University is the third largest university in China. They have 53,000 students, including 39,000 undergraduate students, 13,000 graduate students and 1,600 international students. Their strength majors include agricultural science, plant & animal science, engineering, psychology, art, etc., which are similar to CSU’s strength majors. Every year, about 2,000 students participate into joint degree programs and about 5% of their students study abroad. Thus, there are many potential collaborations between Colorado State University and Southwest University.
In fall 2016, there are already 7 students from SWU studying at CSU for the joint degree program. The delegation had a great lunch with the students. The students shared their great experience at CSU.
The delegation had several meetings with CSU leaderships, including Jim Cooney, Vice Provost for International Affairs; Dan Bush, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs; Kelly Long, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Affairs; Wei Gao, Associate Provost for China Programs; Mike Palmquist, Associate Provost for Instructional Innovation; Dan Goble, Director of the School of Music; John Moore, Professor and Head of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability. After this visit, both CSU and SWU are very excited to the future collaborations in joint degree programs at undergraduate level, faculty/student exchange, graduate programs, online programs, some research collaborations and collaborations in School of Music. SWU and CSU will have advanced discussions on those future collaborations at the end of October, when CSU delegation visits SWU.
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