September 9, 2012

The Go Group organized a tour of four Midwest universities for a group of senior university officials from Shandong Polytechnic University in China.  The purpose of the tour was to acquaint the program participants with higher education operations at differently-sized U.S. universities, and introduce them to academic and administrative staff with the hope that institution-to-institution partnerships will develop.  The program also include brief sightseeing visits to Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN, Madison and Milwaukee, WI, and Chicago, IL.

July 24, 2012

The GO Group’s Executive Director, Dr. David Engberg, gave the keynote address at a conference on university curriculum innovation hosted by Shandong Polytechnic University (SPU) in China.  The conference also included presentations by SPU’s president, and several other senior higher education officials, and Dr. Gillian Claridge from International Pacific College in New Zealand.  Dr. Engberg spoke with Shandong TV station reporters about university internationalization in the United States after the conference.

 

July 2, 2012

GO Group staff, in partnership with Building Bridges Cultural Exchange, a non-profit organization based in Red Wing, MN, welcomed a group of nine students and professors from China for a three-week cultural exchange program.  The goal of the program was to introduce the participants to life in the United States, and expand cultural awareness in the Red Wing community.  Program activities included sightseeing in Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Duluth, plus visits to several universities, a hobby farm, a pottery studio, the Goodhue County Historical Society, a Pow-Wow, the Prairie Island Indian Community, and Mall of America.  Program participants lived with host families while in Red Wing.  Near the end of the program they spoke about China during a presentation at the Dakota County Wescot Library.