Southlands Christian School, 1920 S. Brea Canyon Cutoff Road, is hosting a free Chinese Family Film screening at 7p.m. Friday in the school auditorium. This is a special international film showing by Beijing Oriental Star Films as part of the International Family Film Festival that will be take place in Hollywood this month.
Hamburg High School has established a partnership with a high school in China to "promote an exchange of ideas," a move that is consistent with the school's growing emphasis on global citizenship. Principal Michael Gallagher called it a "great opportunity" for students, teachers and administrators. He pointed to the success of a different program, the Nacel Open Door International Student Exchange, which brought 15 students from Beijing to the classrooms of the high school and the homes of residents earlier this month.
In recent years, boarding schools around Maine have welcomed an increasing number of students from China. Now the state is starting to see an educational export:
... direct the aquatics program at the International School of Beijing. "It's going to be interesting,"...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 16, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The Co-Chairmen and the Director of Committee for Capital Markets Regulation, an independent non-partisan body pressing for more competitive, better regulated U.S. capital markets, has distributed a letter to key U.S. Senators and Representatives that urgently seeks Congressional oversight hearings over the substantial rulemaking process mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act. The letter, dated and delivered on Capital Hill yesterday, was sent by CCMR Co-Chairman R. Glenn Hubbard, Dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and John Thornton, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Brookings Institution and Professor and Director of the Global Leadership Program at the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management in Beij...
... positions as EVP and CFO of Lennox International Inc. and VP of finance and chief accounting office... an adjunct professor at Boston University School of Medicine and an adjunct professor of medicine a... Leaders Advisory Council of the Mayor of Beijing and of the International Advisory Council of Guang...
Serious challenges from China are reducing U.S. influence abroad, and America needs to shake up and focus its national security institutions on this problem, says a veteran Republican international relations expert and scholar. Beijing's robust economic and market growth under an authoritarian government is gaining ground as a model for developing nations in the Third World, with China as a sponsor. This, in the words of Stefan Halper, is a key part of a process that is "shrinking the West. Mr. Halper, director of the Atlantic studies program at Cambridge University and a distinguished fellow of the Nixon Center, noted in an interview that China is using its huge currency reserves - about $2 trillion, earned from its burgeoning exports of recent years - as a strategic instrument. Beiji...
Chris Cordner moved from California to Maine and gave up a scholarship to another school because the University of Maine at Farmington has a long-established Chinese exchange program with the Beijing University of Technology. This year, Cordner, an international studies major at UMF, is racing to learn Chinese in classes taught by a visiting professor from BJUT.
PRESQUE ISLE, Maine --The SAD 1 board will look more closely next week at the first draft of a cooperative agreement that could develop an international relationship between Presque Isle High School and a school in Beijing. Superintendent Gehrig Johnson said during a recent interview that the agreement between PIHS and the Niulanshan First Secondary School in China was completed last month. It now has to be refined and approved by the board.
Nonetheless, the desire to build an international women's movement led some Western feminists to proclaim a global sisterhood that united Western and non- Western women through a common political agenda.3 Over time, many international conferences have staged challenges to a hegemonic Western feminism and facilitated discussions on different approaches to local struggles for women's rights. The decades from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s witnessed this change in women's movements around the globe and in articulations of the feminist agenda, as Peggy Antrobus writes, "from one that has traditionally defined women's issues in terms of domestic violence and reproductive rights to one that sees every issue from the perspective of women and which has taken on broader issues, from militaris...
...From Mexico to Beijing, as more and more women from the global South atte... University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School issued a call for proposals on interdisciplinary a...
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Nov. 4, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The University of Maryland's Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the Robert H. Smith School of Business won the top award for innovative teaching methods from the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC). The organization recognized the Dingman Center with the "Excellence in Entrepreneurship Teaching and Pedagogical Innovation" award at its annual conference at Pennsylvania State University on Oct. 23. This year, the center marks its 25th year of helping students and regional entrepreneurs turn their business ideas into successful startups. The award is given to the entrepreneurship center committed to maximum current and future student benefit through excellence in teaching and pedagogy, demonstrated by activitie...
... from benefactor Michael Dingman, an international investor, businessman and philanthropist. The Smit...
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