UIndy’s international partnerships promote economic and cultural development and benefit students at home and abroad, university President Beverley Pitts said in a new radio and online interview with Inside Indiana Business.
“All of our students are living and working in a global world, and the more we have connections with all the world … the better our students are going to be prepared,” she said.
Dr. Pitts and several colleagues are in China this week for the opening of ZYUFL-UIndy International College in Shaoxing, as well as the International Symposium on Service Learning and a 10th anniversary celebration at Ningbo Institute of Technology, UIndy’s other China partnership site. The new joint venture with Zhejiang Yuexiu University of Foreign Languages will accept up to 300 Chinese students each year to pursue associate’s degrees that provide an opportunity for further study at UIndy’s home campus.
Both Ningbo and Shaoxing are located in the coastal province of Zhejiang, Indiana’s Chinese sister state, and near Shanghai, one of the world’s most populous cities.
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