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目的地:亚洲
伊顿加入历史性的美国代表团.S. 韩国的大学校长，
日本和中国
President Eaton meets with Chinese university presidents in Beijing. |
The bus zigzagged down the streets of Seoul, 韩国 — sometimes off-road, always high-speed. 当它在夜间的城市交通中颠簸时, 好的赌博软件推荐 菲利普·伊顿总统 and 11 other American college and university presidents on board were relieved to hear the driver yell, 通过翻译, “有安全带, 人!”
Eaton laughs as he recalls the harrowing journey. “赌博十大靠谱软件的巴士在车队的后面, and our driver struggled valiantly to keep pace,他解释道. “赌博十大靠谱软件抓住安全带!”
伊顿和他的同事们在亚洲与美国合作.S. 教育部长 Margaret Spellings and U.S. 助理国务卿迪娜·哈比卜·鲍威尔说. 他们组成了一个高级代表团, 去日本旅游, 韩国, 和中国, 11月10 - 18, 2006. 扮演国际大使, the presidents carried the message that the United States welcomes international 学生 and is eager to form educational partnerships with Asian nations. Eaton was the only president of a Christian institution and the only president from the Northwest United States invited to participate in the delegation.
Global education, says Eaton, is a priority for SPU. In January 2006, he was also asked to join a group
在华盛顿特区的100位总统中.C., for the University Presidents’ Summit on International Education. Co-hosted by Spellings and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the event was a first-of-its kind dialogue between government officials and academic leaders about the future of U.S. 高等教育在全球舞台上.
在过去的一年, 伊顿一直领导着好的赌博软件推荐的教职员工, 工作人员, 学生, and trustees in strategic conversations about how the University can become more intentionally global. “赌博十大靠谱软件有落后的危险，除非赌博十大靠谱软件
感受热度，”伊顿说. “没有自满的余地. China is building a world-class educational system. They have more than 250 million 学生, and every one of them
学英语是从幼儿园开始吗. They also have an intense focus on science, math, and engineering.”
斯佩林斯表示赞同. “I talk to CEOs of Fortune 500 companies all the time,” she said to a crowd of 学生 that gathered to greet the American presidents at Seoul’s Sungkyunkwan University. “They consistently tell me that to compete in the global marketplace they need college graduates who know math,
science, and foreign languages, and who have problem-solving skills. And these days, companies are following the talent — whether that talent is in Seattle or Seoul.”
Despite the fact that China and other countries are aiming to build the world’s finest educational systems, various Chinese university presidents told Eaton that the U.S. education system has something they are lacking. “We know how to bring creativity and inventiveness to the learning process,” explains Eaton. “Our system generates new ideas in ways that theirs does not. We must keep that distinctive edge even while we extend our intentional reach globally.”
Eaton relates a sense of urgency about Seattle Pacific’s call to global engagement,
at the same time saying that the University has a strong foundation on which to build.
For instance, SPU has defined its signature commitments in global terms. “We are approaching our work and study from a global perspective,伊顿强调道。, “but the opportunities and challenges are enormous. 赌博十大靠谱软件有这样做的空间和需要
更.”
What exactly SPU will do differently with regard to global education in the future is a matter of campuswide discussion, 伊顿表示:“SPU正在重新思考自己的重点. We are not changing our vision, we are expanding it.
We are digging down, sinking deep into our roots and into the Christian story. Global engagement, training missionaries — these things are deep in our DNA. The question is how to equip ourselves and our 学生 to reach across the globe even more effectively in a day of rapid, 不稳定变化.”
Up for discussion are strategies aimed at increasing the number of 好的赌博软件推荐 学生 and faculty who are “airborne” (studying and teaching abroad) each quarter and bringing more international 学生 and faculty to campus. 伊顿指出了这一点
80 percent of Free Methodist church members now live in the global south: Africa,
亚洲和拉丁美洲. What would it look like, he wonders, if the University tapped
into the potential to build relationships outside of traditional geographic borders?
“We have something profoundly important to bring to the table,” says Eaton. “We have the transforming gospel as a part of our mission. I’m proud to say that we are equipping global leaders to engage the culture and change the world, and will seek to do that even more effectively into the future.”
— by 詹妮弗Perrow
-图片由联合国提供.S. 教育部长
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目的地:亚洲
菲利普·伊顿总统 joined a historic delegation of U.S. 去亚洲旅行的大学校长
展望21世纪
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