Duquesne Renews Collaborations with Universities in China
During a recent visit to China, Provost Dr. Timothy Austin established a new University international exchange partnership and renewed two others.
Accompanied by Associate Dean for Legal Programs and Professor of Law Frank Y. Liu, Austin began a week-long trip by renewing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the School of Law and the China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL), one of China’s top law schools.
These two schools jointly held the first ABA-approved summer study of Chinese law program in Beijing and have a rich history of faculty exchange. CUPL has also sent their law students to complete the LL.M. program for foreign lawyers at the law school.
During his trip, Austin also signed a new collaborative agreement between the law school and the Guanghua Law School at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, the third-ranked university in China. Together, the schools will work on a joint LL.M. program, faculty and student exchanges, a joint bar preparation program for Chinese lawyers who want to take American bar examinations and a Continuing Legal Education (CLE) program for Chinese and American lawyers.
“The presence of Chinese law students will enhance the globalization of Duquesne’s law programs and provide opportunities for Duquesne law professors and students to broaden their perspective about the rule of law in the world,” said Liu.
Austin concluded his trip with a visit to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (SHUTCM). There, he joined Rangos School of Health Sciences Dean Dr. Greg Frazer and Dr. Yang Chen, associate professor of Speech-Language Pathology, to renew a five-year commitment between the schools to provide master’s-level education and training for SHUTCM faculty and clinical preceptors in physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech-language pathology.
The agreement also calls for Duquesne to host visiting scholars, provide a summer program for undergraduate health sciences students, collaborate on research projects, and provide doctoral level education in rehabilitation sciences.
Austin believes these partnerships will add to the diversity and richness of these programs and to our students’ academic experiences.