THE CONSULATE GENERAL of the PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC of CHINA in NEW YORK and
present Cultural and Educational Exchange: Paving the Way for Global Success January 21, 2016
Historical Highlights Timeline of Scholarly Exchange with Teachers College and the People’s Republic of China 1887 Teachers College Founded 1898 TC affiliated with Columbia University, becoming their Graduate School of Education, yet retaining autonomy Early 1900s the TC-China collaboration began with an intensive educational partnership that led to a significant and lasting impact on China’s modernization of education. Hu Shih, world renowned Chinese philosopher and scholar, came to TC to work with faculty such as John Dewey, Paul Monroe, William Heard Kilpatrick, William Russell and others. 1914 Kuo Ping Wen became the first Chinese national to earn a Ph.D. degree from Teachers College 1919 Professor John Dewey, an advocate of progressive education, went on a two-year lecture trip to China to promote this educational philosophy. Dewey had a tremendous influence on progressive scholars in China that contributed significantly to shaping the course of education in China, particularly higher education. By 1950 more than 40 Chinese scholars, mentored by Professor Dewey, had been awarded doctorate degrees at TC and returned to China to help transform its education system. No other graduate school of education has contributed as highly and actively to China’s educational modernization. 1997 Dr. Susan Fuhrman began to advise the Shanghai Education Commission on its education reform activities when she was Dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. 2000 TC established the Center on Chinese Education to reinvigorate the relationship between China and the U.S. 2006 Dr. Fuhrman became President of Teachers College and brought her deep interest and involvement in Chinese educational advancement. Under her leadership, TC has been building sustainable and mutually beneficial partnerships that promote quality educational scholarship and practice with a variety of educational institutions at all levels in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. 2010 Centenary Anniversary Conference at Beijing Normal University, featuring President Fuhrman and Prof Mun Tsang 2010 TC helped organize the first U.S.-China Future Leaders Program through which aspiring educators of both countries from top graduate schools join together to improve mutual understanding and respect through collaborative projects that promote U.S.-China relations. 2013 TC launched a student teacher training program with East China Normal University that brought Chinese student teachers from underdeveloped and rural areas to TC to study across education disciplines and visit a number of public and private high schools and colleges with the goal of learning best practices in teaching to apply in China. 2014 TC signed an MOU with Hong Kong Management Association - comprised of over 12,000 individual executives and corporations - to develop a “Principles and Practices of Organization Development” certificate program to be offered in Hong Kong. This executive education workshop provides core concepts and skills necessary for managing and leading change inside organizations and for consulting to organizations and teams. 2014 100th Anniversary Conference honoring TC’s first PhD from China, Kuo Ping Wen took place at TC. 2015 International Pre-Graduate Program (IPGP) summer program launched in Beijing. 2015 The first joint Master’s in Art Education program with China’s Central Academy of Fine Arts is established allowing ongoing fieldwork and a summer studio art program for TC students at CAFA. Today, Chinese nationals account for over 1300 of Teachers College 90,000 Alumni. TC now enrolls nearly 300 students annually from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in its sixty different master’s and doctoral programs.
PROGRAM 5:30 p.m. 6:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m.
Doors Open Program Begins • Cultural Music performance of “Mo Li Hua” by TC Students: Ieong Cheng (Kathy) Ho, Xiaohang Li and Weng Chong (Jack) Lio • Opening Remarks by Ambassador Zhang Qiyue, Consul General of China in NYC and Susan Fuhrman, President of Teachers College • Panel Discussion featuring Ambassador Zhang Qiyue, Consul Chang Quansheng, Chinese Consulate in NYC and TC Professor Judy Burton; moderated by Maryalice Mazzara (EdD ’84) • Audience Question & Answer Session Reception Event Concludes
MORE ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Ambassador Zhang Qiyue has been the Consul General of China in New York since December 29th, 2014. Starting her diplomatic career in 1982, she previously served as Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Belgium and Indonesia and worked at both the Secretariat of the UN Headquarters in New York and the Chinese Permanent Mission to the United Nations. From 1998 to 2004, she served as the Spokeswoman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry. She also served as Deputy Director General of the Information Department from 1998 to 2004 and Director General of the Department for Diplomatic Missions Abroad from 2012 to 2014. Ambassador Zhang graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University. Dr. Susan Fuhrman is the President of Teachers College, Columbia University, founding Director and Chair of the Management Committee of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE), and immediate Past-President of the National Academy of Education. Dr. Fuhrman’s substantial leadership track record includes her term as Dean of the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education from 1995-2006, where she was also the school’s George and Diane Weiss Professor of Education. Dr. Fuhrman received undergraduate and graduate degrees in history from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in political science and education from Teachers College and Columbia University. Her work focuses on enhancing the quality of education research, accountability in education, intergovernmental relationships, and standards-based reform, and she has written widely on education policy and finance. Dr. Judith M. Burton is Professor and Director of Art & Art Education at Teachers College. Before that she was Chair of Art Education at Boston University and taught at the Massachusetts College of Art. Burton received her Ed. D. from Harvard University in 1980. Her research focuses on the artistic-aesthetic development of children, adolescents and young adults and the implications this has for teaching and learning and the culture in general. In 1995 she co-founded the Center for Research in Arts Education at Teachers College, and in 1996 founded the Heritage School – a comprehensive high school featuring the arts – located in Harlem, NYC. She received the Manuel Barkan Award for excellence in research writing, the Lowenfeld Award for lifetime achievement in art education from NAEA, as well as the NAEA Eisner Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015 and Ziegfeld Award for services to international art education from INSEA. Dr. Burton is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts in Great Britain, a Distinguished Fellow of the NAEA, and serves as Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing, and the South China Normal University, Guangzhou. Consul Quansheng Chang has been working with the Chinese Consulate-General in New York since 2012. His carreer has taken him all over the world as he has served in various educational and diplomatic posts including as a teacher at Henan Medical University and Capital Normal University. He also worked with the China Scholarship Council for over 5 years. Chang also served as the First Secretary to Chinese Embassy in the United Kingdom. Chang earned a Bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature from Beijing Normal University and Master’s of Applied Linguistics from Beijing Foreign Studies University. He also studied as a Visiting scholar at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 2002.
Wishing you all a prosperous and healthy New Year!
恭贺新年
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