About This Webinar
In these difficult times, we face public health concerns and growing challenges relating to trade, economic growth, and global cooperation. Despite the issues in other sectors of our lives, we cannot overlook the problems affecting educational collaboration between the Heartland region (and the U.S. as a whole) and China.
In this webinar replay, featuring distinguished professors, experts, and policymakers whose work ties into international education, we will explore the various challenges facing U.S.-China educational collaboration. How can we sustain these relationships? How can we continue to build upon the significant progress our two nations have made over the past 40 years? Enjoy this webinar as we attempt to answer these questions and more.
This event is part of USHCA’s ongoing series, The Way Forward, where we discuss different ideas and initiatives used by the US and China and how they can be applied to the Heartland region.
Resources

Philip G. Altbach - Research Professor and Founding Director of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College
He is author of Global Perspectives on Higher Education, Turmoil and Transition, Student Politics in America, among other books. He also co-edited (with Jamil Salmi) The Road to Academic Excellence, (with Michael Bastedo and Patricia Gumport) American Higher Education in the 21st Century, The International Handbook of Higher Education, World Class Worldwide: Transforming Research Universities in Asia and Latin America and other books.
Philip G. Altbach
Philip G. Altbach is Research Professor and Founding Director of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College, where from 1994 to 2015 he was the Monan University Professor. He was the 2004-2006 Distinguished Scholar Leader for the New Century Scholars initiative of the Fulbright program, was given the Houlihan award for distinguished contributions to international education by NAFSA: Association of International Educators, the Bowen distinguished career award by the Association for the Study of Higher Education, and has been a senior associate of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. In 2010, he was Erudite Scholar of the Government of Kerala. He has taught at Harvard University, the University of Wisconsin, and the State University of New York at Buffalo.
He is author of Global Perspectives on Higher Education, Turmoil and Transition, Student Politics in America, among other books. He also co-edited (with Jamil Salmi) The Road to Academic Excellence, (with Michael Bastedo and Patricia Gumport) American Higher Education in the 21st Century, the International Handbook of Higher Education, World Class Worldwide: Transforming Research Universities in Asia and Latin America and other books.
Dr. Altbach is a member of the Russian government’s “5-100 University Excellence Commission.” He is a member of the international advisory committee of the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia, and the Graduate School at Shanghai Jiaotong University. He is guest professor at Peking University and Xiamen University in China. He has been an Onwell Fellow at the University of Hong Kong, and a fellow of the National Science Foundation of Taiwan.
Dr. Altbach holds the B.A., M.A. and Ph.D degrees from the University of Chicago.

Michael A. Brzezinski - Dean of International Programs Purdue University
Michael Brzezinski has been the Dean of International Programs (IP) at Purdue University since 2011. He joined the Boilermakers in 1993 and has held several positions since then all within IP. He has both studied and worked in China and has been involved in various educational collaborations with the Middle Kingdom since 1981. Conversationally fluent in Mandarin, Brzezinski has overseen Purdue’s student flow to and from China resulting in thousands of Purdue and PRC students learning from and with one another.
Michael A. Brzezinski
Mike Brzezinski joined Purdue in 1993 as director of International Students and Scholars. Prior to joining the Boilermakers Brzezinski studied and worked in China, two years as an exchange student and five years as an administrator and teacher for an American educational company, Educational Services Exchange with China, Inc. (ESEC). Brzezinski also worked at the University of Houston (UH) for five years as an international student counselor. He received his educational doctorate at UH in Educational Leadership and Cultural Studies in May 1993.
While at Purdue Brzezinski has spearheaded and implemented an international student recruitment strategy that increased undergraduate enrollment from abroad from less than 700 students to more than 4,000. In 2005 he was promoted to associate dean with additional duties leading to an expansion of educational collaborations in China. He served as interim dean for International Programs from 2009-11 before being appointed as dean in 2011.
As dean he expanded the Study Abroad Intercultural Learning grant program and spearheaded a multi-year, multi-million dollar study abroad scholarship program that led to a near doubling of undergraduate student study abroad participation.
In 2016, Brzezinski launched the Center for Intercultural Learning, Mentorship, Assessment and Research (CILMAR). CILMAR has not only successfully infused intercultural learning (ICL) outcomes and assessment into all aspects of study abroad, but is also beginning to integrate ICL into on-campus curricula.

David C. Chang 張鍾浚 - Professor Emeritus at Tandon School of Engineering, New York University
Dr. Chang has been a Professor Emeritus at Tandon School of Engineering, New York University since 2013 after serving 8 years as the Chancellor for Global Programs & President Emeritus, 2005-2013 and prior to that, President for 11 years at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, NY in 1994-2005, before the latter was merged with NYU. Dr. Chang was also Dean and Motorola Professor of Engineering at Arizona State University, 1992-94; Chairman/Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, 1982-1990, and Director, MMICAD Research Center, 1988-1992 at University of Colorado Boulder.
David C. Chang 張鍾浚
Dr. Chang has been a Professor Emeritus at Tandon School of Engineering, New York University since 2013 after serving 8 years as the Chancellor for Global Programs & President Emeritus, 2005-2013 and prior to that, President for 11 years at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, NY in 1994-2005, before the latter was merged with NYU. Dr. Chang was also Dean and Motorola Professor of Engineering at Arizona State University, 1992-94; Chairman/Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, 1982-1990, and Director, MMICAD Research Center, 1988-1992 at University of Colorado Boulder.
Dr. Chang received his M.S. and Ph.D. In Applied Physics from Harvard University and B.S. In Electrical Engineering from National Cheng-Kung University in Taiwan. He was elected as Fellow (1985) and Life Fellow (2006) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and received an IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000. He served as President of the IEEE Professional Society on Antennas & Propagation in 1985-86, and Chairman of the U.S. National Committee, International Scientific Radio Union, 1991-94. Dr. Chang was named an honorary professor and/or presidential advisor at a number of major universities in the Greater China Region, and received an Honorary Doctor of Engineering degree from Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2015.
Dr. Chang was active in public services in his community. He was named to NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Transition Team in 2001, and served on the Mayor’s Appointment Committee. He was appointed first as a member, 2002-08, and then Chair, 2008-10, of the governing board for New York City’s public school system with a student population of over 1.1 million.
Dr. Chang’s corporate & business activities include being elected to the board of two publicly-listed companies: Time Warner Cable, 2004-2016, and American XTAL Technologies, 2000-present. He also founded two high-tech start-ups based on his research works at the University of Colorado at Boulder before they were acquired separately by public companies listed on NASDAQ.
Dr. Chang was elected as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is on the Board of the American Council on International Education. In addition to being a long-time member of the Committee of 100 dedicated to a better understanding between U.S. and China, Dr. Chang has also been serving since 2013 as a Special Advisor to President & Chancellor of Nanjing University; a member of the Mayoral International Advisory Board for the City of Wuhan, China 2013-16, and the Founding Chairman of the International Advisory Board at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University since 2009-2018. Dr. Chang founded in 2012 the Global Maximum Educational Opportunities, and established the Chengdu American Center for Study Abroad in2013 to enroll American college students to study and/or intern abroad in China and is now its Chairman & CEO.

Andrew D. Martin - Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis and a Professor of Law and Political Science.
He is the former Dean of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Martin’s expertise is in the study of judicial decision making, with special emphasis on the U.S. Supreme Court and the lower federal courts. He also works extensively in the field of political methodology and applied statistics. He has published in leading social science and applied statistics journals, including the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, Political Analysis, the Journal of Legal Studies, and Statistical Science.
Andrew D. Martin
Andrew D. Martin is Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis and a Professor of Law and Political Science. He is the former Dean of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Martin's expertise is in the study of judicial decision making, with special emphasis on the U.S. Supreme Court and the lower federal courts. He also works extensively in the field of political methodology and applied statistics. He has published in leading social science and applied statistics journals, including the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, Political Analysis, the Journal of Legal Studies, and Statistical Science. Dr. Martin is a frequent presenter at conferences and workshops throughout the country. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health, serving as principal investigator on eight grants from the National Science Foundation. Dr. Martin was elected as a Fellow of the Society for Political Methodology in 2012, and received the Distinguished Faculty Award from the Alumni Board of Governors of Washington University in 2013.
Dr. Martin received his A.B. from the College of William & Mary cum laude and with high Honors in Mathematics and Government in 1994, and his PhD in Political Science from Washington University in 1998. He has previously served as the Charles Nagel Chair of Constitutional Law and Political Science at the Washington University School of Law, and as Vice Dean of the School of Law, Founding Director of the Center for Empirical Research in the Law, and Chair of the Department of Political Science in Arts & Sciences.
Dr. Martin lives with his wife and daughter in St. Louis, Missouri.

JIA Qingguo 贾庆国 - Professor, Former Dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University, Director of the Institute of Global Cooperation and Understanding
JIA Qingguo, acquired his PhD at the Department of Government, Cornell University. He is a professor and doctoral supervisor, and the former Dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University. He is the director of Global Cooperation and Understanding. He is a member of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League and the Director of its Education Committee. He is the Vice Chairman of the Beijing Municipal Committee, Director of the Research Center for International Economic Strategy of China, a member of the Academic Evaluation Committee of the China Foundation for International and Strategic Studies, a member of the Academic Committee of Quarterly Journal of International Politics of Tsinghua University, as well as an adjunct professor at Nankai University and Tongji University.
JIA Qingguo 贾庆国
JIA Qingguo, acquired his PhD at the Department of Government, Cornell University. He is a professor and doctoral supervisor, and the former Dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University. He is the director of Global Cooperation and Understanding. He is a member of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League and the Director of its Education Committee. He is the Vice Chairman of the Beijing Municipal Committee, Director of the Research Center for International Economic Strategy of China, a member of the Academic Evaluation Committee of the China Foundation for International and Strategic Studies, a member of the Academic Committee of Quarterly Journal of International Politics of Tsinghua University, as well as an adjunct professor at Nankai University and Tongji University. JIA is also a senior researcher of Hong Kong and Macao Research Institute under the Development Research Center of the State Council. His researches mainly focus on international politics, China-U.S. relations, China’s diplomacy, cross-Strait relations, China’s rise and the adjustment of China’s diplomacy.

Yawei Liu 刘亚伟 - Director of the China Program at the Carter Center
Yawei Liu (刘亚伟)is the director of the China Program at The Carter Center. He became a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in 2014. He is the associate director of the China Research Center in Atlanta and an adjunct professor of Political Science at Emory University. He co-authored Obama: The Man Who Will Change America (Chinese language, 2008). He is the founding editor of www.chinaelections.org
刘亚伟
Yawei Liu (刘亚伟)is the director of the China Program at The Carter Center. He became a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in 2014. He is the associate director of the China Research Center in Atlanta and an adjunct professor of Political Science at Emory University. He co-authored Obama: The Man Who Will Change America (Chinese language, 2008). He is the founding editor of www.chinaelections.org which went online in 2002. Other websites he founded and oversees are www.uscnpm.org (English) and cn3.uscnpm.org (Chinese). Since 2012, he organizes an annual forum on U.S.-China relations which alternates between China and the US. He currently leads a project to examine the impact of the rise of China on developing countries and to promote US-China collaboration in African countries. Yawei earned his B.A in English literature from Xian Foreign Languages Institute (1982), M.A. in recent Chinese history from the University of Hawaii (1989) and Ph. D. in American History from Emory University (1996).
Moderator:

Blaine A. Brownell - USHCA Board Member and Education Chair
Blaine A. Brownell, a teacher and scholar specializing in U.S. urban history and international education, has held tenured professorships in four different universities and served in senior leadership roles in U.S. universities and other non-profit and for-profit organizations.
Blaine A. Brownell
Blaine a . Brownell是一名教师和学者,专门研究美国城市历史和国际教育,曾在四所不同的大学担任终身教授,并在美国大学和其他非盈利和营利性组织担任高级领导职务。他曾担任阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校院长、研究生院院长和国际项目创始主任(1974-1990);北德克萨斯大学教务长兼学术事务副校长(1990-1998);孟菲斯大学国际项目和服务执行主任(1998-2000);波尔州立大学校长(2000-2004);以及一家位于新加坡的学术质量保证公司的总裁兼首席执行官(2004-2006),该公司总部设在弗吉尼亚大学,由一个遍布七国的17所顶尖研究型大学组成的财团所拥有,为全球首批在线教育项目提供认证服务。
在2006至2008年期间,他曾担任南佛罗里达大学圣匹兹堡分校商学院的临时院长、负责学术事务的临时副区域校长、战略规划和国际项目的高级大学顾问。 自2009至2012年期间,他在迪拜、阿布扎比和阿尔艾因的阿拉伯联合酋长国国立大学担任学术项目和规划顾问。
他的国际经验还包括担任日本广岛大学美国历史和城市研究富布赖特教授(1977-78),美国新闻署驻巴西学术专家(1985),以及中国四川大学客座教授(1987)。他曾是国际教育论坛和国际教育管理者协会期刊的编辑(1998-2000)以及NAFSA海外教育战略工作组的成员:国际教育工作者协会(2002-2003),美国州立大学协会(AASCU)国际教育委员会主席,国际教育交流委员会(CIEE)董事会成员,也是总部设在华盛顿特区的国际学生交换计划(ISEP)的董事会主席。他曾担任伯明翰(Al)外交关系委员会和伯明翰姐妹城市委员会(一个市政机构)的主席,德克萨斯州达拉斯外交关系委员会的成员,以及弗吉尼亚州夏洛茨维尔委员会的主席。
在孟菲斯大学期间,他领导了一个项目,与中国深圳政府签订合同,为该市的中小学输送英语母语者。
他持有北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校授予的的美国历史学硕士和博士学位,以及位于弗吉尼亚州列克星敦的华盛顿和李大学授予的学士学位。他在约翰霍普金斯大学南方历史研究所与David Herbert Donald教授一起工作完成了一年的博士后工作(1971-72)。他现在住在伊利诺伊州的埃文斯顿郡。