East-West Center Annual Report 2001

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[ 16 ]EducationPlanning for the Asia Pacific Leadership Program (see page 7) was a Centerwideeffort that brought education and research staff together to conceptualize andprepare the curricular framework, construct the two multidisciplinary corecourses — one on critical issues of the region and the other on leadership —pair students with mentor-leaders from the community, and organize the internationalfield study component.The number of students continued to grow in 2001. The total of studentsengaged in study at and through the Center increased to 260 with the arrival ofstudents in the leadership program and student affiliates from the University ofHawai‘i, who participate fully in the Center’s programming and student activities.Two robust student organizations at the Center are working closely withEducation, Research and Alumni staff in furthering the student educationprograms of the Center:■ The EWC Participants Association, through a variety of country- and interestspecificgroupings, did an effective job of creating a cultural life that strengthenedthe multicultural student community. The EWCPA also significantly contributedto the success of Hawai‘i International Education Week in November.■ The Education Council played a strong role in shaping and organizing thesemester-long seminar series that comprises an important shared educationalexperience for East-West Center students. It made important strides instrengthening ties between Center researchers and students over the past year. TheCouncil also expanded the scope and organizational sophistication of its annualinternational graduate student research conference to the point that nearly half ofthe 100 paper, panel, and poster presentations for the February 2002 gatheringwill be drawn from Asian and Pacific island countries and the U.S. mainland.■ Terance W. Bigalke is dean of EWC academic programs.EWC scholarship studentsfrom Pacific island nationsand East Timor were inWashington, D.C. for asummer program. Withthem is Gerard Finin ofthe Center’s Pacific IslandsDevelopment Program.Their contacts includeda meeting with EniFaleomavaega, U.S. Congressdelegate from AmericanSamoa.
[ 17 ]U.S. Senator Daniel Inouyeof Hawai‘i meets withOkinawa students at theinaugural ceremony for theObuchi Education andResearch Program, initiatedby the East-West Center toprovide graduatescholarships, internshipsand exchanges ofresearchers.Asian StudiesDevelopmentProgram (ASDP)Highlights of the ASDP year included the national conference on“Contemporary Issues in China,” hosted by the College of DuPage in GlenEllyn, Illinois; a workshop on “Interpreting China: Tradition & ContemporaryChallenges,” held at the University of North Carolina at Asheville; and aworkshop on India, hosted by Middlesex Community College in Bedford,Massachusetts, all with funding from the Henry Luce Foundation.ASDP is a joint program of the University of Hawai‘i and the East-WestCenter, initiated in 1990 to increase American understanding of the Asia Pacificregion through college and university faculty development.The ASDP summer program was long and intense, starting with a threeweekfield study on the Pearl River Delta, held in Hong Kong and GuangdongProvince, and then followed by an NEH-funded five-week institute on Chinesepolitics and religion, a new three-week course that brings Chinese and Americanfaculty together in the U.S. and China in alternate years, and the annual threeweekInstitute on Infusing Asian Studies into the Undergraduate Curriculum.The latter programs were funded by The Henry Luce Foundation.In an era of increasing interdependence and globalization, it is crucial thatAmericans understand the cultures and histories as well as contemporary socialissues of Asia. The ASDP mission is to infuse Asian content and perspectivesinto the core curriculum at American two- and four-year colleges anduniversities through programs that help faculty expand and refine theirknowledge and teaching of Asia.
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