 | President Richard C. Levin delivered a speech on "Creating Global Universities: From Student Exchanges to Collaborations" at the National Academy for Education Administration. |
President Richard C. Levin and a delegation of Yale faculty and administrators recently returned from a trip to China, where they worked to further expand existing partnerships and to establish new ones.
Levin summed up the mission of the trip during an address to Peking University (PKU), saying, "The linkages between universities form a solid foundation for enduring understanding and peace between the United States and China."
In addition to the President, the delegation included Vice President Linda K. Lorimer and professors from the Departments of History, East Asian Languages and Literatures, Genetics, and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology as well as from the Schools of Law, Medicine and Management.
The delegation members met to discuss potential collaborations with officials from PKU, Tsinghua University and the National Academy of Education Administration in Beijing, as well as Fudan University in Shanghai. They also met with Chinese State Councilor Madame Chen Zhili and Vice Minister of Education Chang Xinsheng.
In honor of the deep ties between Yale and China, PKU celebrated a Yale Day on Nov. 14. The Chinese university awarded Levin an honorary degree which recognized both his outstanding contribution to the work of the academy and Yale's longstanding connection to China.
Following the degree ceremony, Yale professors presented a series of lectures to PKU faculty and students. The featured speakers from Yale were Jonathan Spence, Sterling Professor of History; Paul Gewirtz, the Potter Stewart Professor of Constitutional Law and director of the China Law Center; William Goetzmann, the Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management Studies and director of the International Center for Finance at the School of Management; and Xing-Wang Deng, the Daniel C. Eaton Professor of Plant Biology and director of the Peking-Yale Joint Center for Plant Molecular Genetics and Agrobiotechnology. The delegation was joined at PKU by Ann Ping Chin, lecturer in history, and Charles Laughlin, associate professor of Chinese literature and director of the Richard U. Light Fellowship Program.
Levin gave major speeches at the National Academy for Education Administration and PKU on the themes of education cooperation and the creation of the global university. He was also keynote speaker at a conference at Fudan University celebrating 25 years of Sino-U.S. education cooperation following the introduction of the open-door policy by Deng Xiaoping in 1978.
In a meeting with the chief justice of the Chinese People's Supreme Court, Xiao Yang, Levin talked at length about the Yale China Law Center, highlighting the progress that the center has made in the two years since its inception (see http://chinalaw.law.yale.edu/).
During the visit, the delegation celebrated milestones for two of Yale's most significant collaborations in China. New facilities were dedicated for the Fudan-Yale Biomedical Research Center, and the Peking-Yale Joint Center for Plant Molecular Genetics and Agrobiotechnology. Also, a new agreement was signed under the auspices of Tian Xu, professor of genetics, molecular oncology and development, and special adviser to the Levin on science and higher education in China. This new initiative created the FudanYale Center for Education Cooperation, an innovative project for the future of education cooperation.
While in China, Levin also had the opportunity to meet with alumni clubs in Shanghai and Beijing.
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