 | At the Yale-China University Leadership Program in 2004, New Haven architect Cesar Pelli (left) and Yale senior architect Kari Nordstrom (background) reviewed plans for Nanjing University with the Chinese delegates. |
The People's Republic of China is evolving, both internally and in its relations to the international community. Several Yale initiatives are providing guidance to China's leaders as they make those transitions.
Building World-Class Universities. In the summer of 2004, presidents and vice presidents from China's leading universities came to campus for the China-Yale Advanced University Leadership Program. Developed in response to China's goal of creating "world-class universities," the program brought together Yale faculty and administrators and Chinese university leaders to discuss issues that are key to the American research university -- from liberal education to peer review, faculty appointment processes, fundraising techniques and strategic planning. In doing so, the program allows the Chinese educators to review models and best practices that they might adapt to their own needs. A second session of the program was held at Yale in August 2005, and a summer 2006 session will be held in Xiamen.
Yale, incidentally, has a long history of cultivating Chinese educators, including three of the first four presidents of Tsinghua University (President Hu Jintao's alma mater) -- Tang Guoan, Zhang Yuquan and Zhou Yichun; Ma Yinchu (Class of 1910), president of Peking University 1951-1960; Li Denghui (Class of 1899), the first president of Fudan University; Yan Fuqing (Class of 1909), president of Fudan Shanghai Medical School; and Yan Yangchu (Class of 1918), who worked to eliminate illiteracy among Chinese workers in France and then initiated educational reforms in rural China.
Understanding the "Rule of Law." The China-Yale Senior Government Leadership Program is a three-year program, inaugurated in 2005, for the most senior cohort of government officials to participate in an executive education program outside of China. The program focuses on issues related to administration according to law and is a collaboration of Yale University -- through its China Law Center (see story, page 8) -- and the China National School of Administration. Renowned legal practitioners and visiting speakers (including two U.S. Supreme Court justices, current and former U.S. Cabinet secretaries, the Governor of New York, the United Nations Secretary-General and senior leaders at the White House and the United Nations) joined leading Yale scholars from its faculties of law, management, forestry and environmental studies, and the arts and sciences to create the forum. The participants and presenters examined the U.S. experience of governance and regulation, and the program expanded the participants' understanding of the best U.S. thinking on important issues of law and public policy.
Business Executive Training. This fall, 26 leaders of state-owned enterprises in China, including the CEOs of its two largest banks, came to Yale for the China-Yale Advanced Leadership Program in Management. The program was developed by the Yale School of Management and the China International Center for Economic and Technical Exchanges in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme. In classes and field trips -- including trips to New York and Washington, D.C., where they met with U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao and leaders of other government agencies -- participants learned about such topics as the legal environment of enterprises, investor relations, corporate governance and leadership style for senior corporate managers.
Promoting Sustainable Development. Tsinghua University in Beijing and the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies offer a three-year program for the executive education of Chinese municipal officials responsible for urban planning and development to promote economic development in more environmentally sustainable ways.
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