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22 June 2006 Anhui University officials visit Longwood University
Officials from Anhui University of Technology visited Longwood University recently to further the partnership and exchange agreement that the two universities signed in 2004. Among the Chinese dignitaries were President Dong Yuanchi, Dean Li Zhi Ping, and International Affairs Secretary Hu Shangui. The visit was organized by Dr. Lily Goetz, Longwood’s director of international affairs, who visited Anhui University last year along with Dr. Wayne McWee, vice president for academic affairs, and other Longwood officials. A highlight of the visit was a reception and dinner at the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, hosted by Longwood President Patricia Cormier, where the Chinese delegation was given a special tour of the Rowe Collection of Chinese Art by LCVA Director K. Johnson Bowles. Since the agreement between Longwood and Anhui was signed, 21 Chinese exchange students have studied at Longwood, and 25 more students are expected this coming year. Dr. Geoffroy de Laforcade, assistant professor of history, has led two summer groups (approximately 50 students) to Anhui as part of the exchange agreement between the two universities. Anhui (pronounced An-way), which the Chinese also call AHUT, has a total of 20,000 students, of whom 14,000 are undergraduates. The university is located in Anhui province in Ma'anshan, a city of 1.4 million (small by Chinese standards) on the Yangtze River not far from Nanjing (formerly Nanking). |
