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Flagler College and China’s Foreign Affairs University Sign Exchange Agreement

November 28, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Flagler College President Joseph G. Joyner signs the agreement with CFAU Vice President LI Hongmei in the President’s Board Room in Ponce de Leon Hall at Flagler College on Monday. (Flagler College)
Flagler College President Joseph G. Joyner signs the agreement with CFAU Vice President LI Hongmei in the President’s Board Room in Ponce de Leon Hall at Flagler College on Monday. (Flagler College)

Flagler College on Monday signed an agreement with Beijing-based China Foreign Affairs University (CFAU) for faculty and student exchange. The agreement is effective immediately, with programs set to begin in the spring semester of 2019.

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The equivalent of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government or Paris’s School of International Affairs (Sciencs Po), CFAU is China’s leading university for future diplomats and foreign affairs and policy specialists. It is a state school, administered by the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Education.

“We’re excited to have a faculty and student exchange,” said Flagler College President Dr. Joseph G. Joyner. “It’s a wonderful thing for Flagler College.”

The agreement, signed in the president’s board room at the college, is a milestone for Flagler College as it plans for diversity, inclusion and increased cultural awareness in its programming college-wide in the next five years. The exchange program will continue to build upon similar partnerships that have been established with universities in Germany and other countries. The college is celebrating its 50th anniversary.

Joyner and LI Hongmei. (Flagler College)
Joseph Joyner and LI Hongmei. (Flagler College)
The new exchange program will begin in the spring when the first visiting faculty member arrives to teach an introductory course on Chinese culture and language – offering a “panorama tour of China from traditional culture to modern living” per the proposed course catalogue description.

Flagler students who participate in a study abroad to CFAU or in the exchange program will have unique opportunities for engagement. Program highlights for Flagler students will include access to press conferences, summits, conferences and learning among one of the brightest student cohorts in China. CFAU has a distinct curriculum designed around a 7 to 1 student to faculty ratio, which is essentially unheard of in Chinese higher education.

CFAU is the only university officially aligned with the Foreign Affairs Ministry of China. Students have unparalleled access to diplomatic and foreign ministers, top law professionals and international organizations. CFAU also boasts more than twenty research institutes and centers, allowing direct access to the country’s top research in several fields including international relations, international education and world economics and trade.

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“The potential benefits for our students, faculty, staff and the local community are significant,” said political science professor and Dean of Academic Life Art Vanden Houten. “As the 21st century unfolds, partnering with China’s most prestigious university that trains its future diplomatic corps will allow students, faculty and community members here and in China to develop a deeper understanding and keen insight into the contours and complexities of what will be the most significant international relationship of the century.”

The Chinese delegates who visited Flagler cited the school’s history, diversity and open-mindedness as reasons that it is “the right choice” for the partnership, according to Vice President of CFAU LI Hongmei.

Vice president LI noted that the cornerstone of education is learning from other cultures and seeing things from a different perspective. Thus, CFAU delegates will be making one more stop on their weeklong trip; a similar agreement will be made with another school on the west coast.

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  1. rjs508 says

    November 28, 2018 at 5:30 pm

    Just another way that China will try to steal American technology and our people will be smiling the entire time in ignorance.

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  2. Palmcoaster says

    November 29, 2018 at 8:37 am

    I fully trust our intelligence entities (FBI and CIA) to keep close tabs in any foreign exchange college programs. Kudos to Flagler College., Lets open our windows to the world and learn about other cultures and by doing so we may be able to wise up and avoid so many wars and improve commerce relations to both those countries involved. Our often USA culture about that all that we do not know or understand is definitely bad omen, actually isolate and box us all into the dark manipulative politics of ignorance.

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  3. Outsider says

    December 1, 2018 at 8:48 pm

    We are the ignorant ones, yet China is the one that deprives it’s citizens of knowledge via censorship. Got it!

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