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Two US universities see China programs
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By Amy He in New York(China Daily USA)
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Two US state universities are increasing their China initiatives as the schools see a rise inenrollment by Chinese students.
Arizona State University, in Tempe, near Phoenix, has one of the biggest Chinese internationalstudent populations in the US, most of the growth coming in only the last five years, accordingto Denis Simon, the school's senior adviser for global affairs to the president's office.
The school has a number of Chinarelated initiatives that began six to seven years ago afterthe university president proposed that ASU prioritize recruiting highly qualified Chinesestudents to the campus, setting up a series of platforms in China for joint research, andstrengthening the ASU brand in China, Simon said.
"We're of the belief that innovation and technological change has now become a very globalprocess, and as that process is globalized, almost all new knowledge is the creation of crossborder, crosscultural, crossfunctional teams," he told China Daily.
ASU now has education and research programs across China, with the two largest in Qingdaoand Chengdu. In Qingdao, the school has a biology research partnership called the BioDesignInstitute, a research program in which healthcare and sustainability solutions are created byextracting designs from nature into the real world.
In Chengdu is ASU's MacroTechnology Works program, another research and developmentplatform that applies technology to design, such as using smart technology on bridges tomeasure the strength of the bridge and the weight of its load to prevent structural issues fromdeveloping.
"As you look at the US and China together, we are more and more interdependent in thecreation of new knowledge," Simon said. "If you look at the scientific literature, you look at thepublications, you're starting to see that the US and China are working more closely togetherthan ever before."
The school had more than 8,600 international students in the 20132014 school year,according to data from the Institute of International Education, and Chinese students made upmore than a third of that group, at around 3,360, Simon said. About 1,700 of the Chinesestudents are part of the undergraduate program and 1,600 are in the graduate program.
"We went from several hundred Chinese students five years ago to a couple of thousandtoday," he said.
Chinese students, along with other international students and students from out of state payabout $22,000 a year in tuition, compared with the instate tuition of $9,000, as ASU is a publicstate university.
The ASU brand, according to Simon, was "not well known afew years ago," but through extensive promotion on socialmedia and a strong focus on science and technologicalcollaboration, the school now has the fourthlargest Chinesepopulation among US public state universities, and is in thetop 10 overall of all US colleges.
Florida International University's Chaplin School of Hospitalityand Tourism Management, based in Miami, is also increasingits efforts to establish partnerships in China and to bringChinese students into the US school system.
The school has a partnership with Tianjin University ofCommerce in China that was started by the Marriott
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Commerce in China that was started by the MarriottFoundation, which allows students to start their degrees at alocal college and then transfer into Tianjin University to finishthe last two years there. Upon graduation, they receive a USdegree.
Before Duke University and New York University began offering the same thing for studentslooking to study in China, FIU was the only US school to offer a complete bachelor's degreeonsite in China, according to the hospitality school's dean Mike Hampton.
"The hospitality and tourism industry not just in China but across Southeast Asia isexplosive," said Hampton. "There's this war (for) talent, and Marriott, because they've beenone of the leaders in the growth of that sector, saw a need for development of managementtalent in location, because you can't import expatriates everywhere you go," Hampton said.
"Their idea was to partner with us, to be able to offer the opportunity to Chinese nationals andothers to be able to get their education onsite, in the environment, so that they would then beable to get work experience, do their internships and progressively move into the industry,ready to be effective in their jobs," he said.
Students that partake in the FIUMarriott Tianjin China Program pay about $12,000 for twoyears of tuition for their junior and senior years. The program currently has a 300student cap,up from an original 150student cap.
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