MPCC delegation and representatives from UIC
Ten representatives from five Minnesota Private College Council (MPCC) member institutions travelled to UIC for the annual Sino-American Conference on Liberal Arts Education and the Presidential Lecture Series on 14 November.
The conference is one element of the partnership between UIC and MPCC, established in 2007. Representatives from UIC and schools in the MPCC attended this significant event to share news and information about how to teach and embody liberal arts education in the global age.
In his opening remarks at the conference, Prof. Ng Ching-Fai, President of UIC, said that the partnership has been very successful: since the start of UIC-MPCC collaborations, students from both countries have studied abroad in the partner institutions, faculty from MPCC institutions have visited and taught at UIC, and MPCC graduates have travelled to UIC to serve as teaching assistants or teaching assistant interns.
One of the missions of UIC is to build a new model for liberal arts education in Mainland China, Prof. Ng continued. As one of UIC's cherished traditions, the Sino-American Liberal Arts Conference is an annual event jointly organized by MPCC and the Hong Kong-America Centre. The conference offers a unique opportunity for both UIC faculty and our honoured guests from MPCC to better understand each other through the perspectives of liberal arts. The college will maintain its liberal arts core value with an uncompromising curriculum dedicated to whole person education for a better society.
Prof. Ng presents souvenirs to the MPCC representatives to thank the members of the council for their support for UIC
The 2012 conference featured three presidential lectures delivered respectively by Dr. William Craft, President of Concordia College; Mr. Tim Morin, a Board Member of MPCC and Vice-President for Sales/Marketing of VigiLanz Corporation; and Prof. Sze-Yong Zee, Vice-President (Academic) of UIC.
The second part of the conference was a workshop on teaching and learning led by Dr. Glenn Shive, Director of the Hong Kong-America Centre; Dr. Reza Hoshmand, Director of General Education at Hong Kong Baptist University; Dr. Robert Lagueux, Fulbright Scholar at the City University of Hong Kong; and Dr. Dennis Berg, Fulbright Scholar at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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Remarks of the three presidential lectures:
Editor: Sze Ying Cheong
Photographer: Chang Liu, Echo Li
(from MPRO, with special thanks to the ELC and IJ Programme)
