AdU inks MOU with prestigious Chinese university
Date Posted: July 2, 2018 at 02:01 PM
by Dr. Catherine Q. Castañeda
Adamson University signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Zhengzhou University (ZZU) in China when ZZU’s top officials visited Adamson last June 19, 2018. After the visiting delegation paid a courtersy call on AdU president Fr. Marcelo V. Manimtim, C.M., its head, Prof. Han Guohe, Vice president for International Affairs, signed a Memorandum of Understanding for potential areas of collaboration with Dr. Catherine Q. Castañeda, Vice President for Academic Affairs of Adamson. The areas of collaboration include joint degree programs, transnational arrangements, faculty development, and faculty exchange, on-the-job training of students, and possible cultural exchange.
The top-ranking delegation of one vice president, four deans, and a director of ZZU came for a second meeting, following the earlier visit of Dr. Frank Wang, Director of the Office for Liaison Affairs of the School of International Education of ZZU, last February 2018.
The visiting officials discussed with AdU deans the possibility of specific academic agreements which, if pursued, would result in MOA signing of the presidents of both institutions. As a gesture of their generosity, Prof. Han Guohe offered Adamson three Ph.D. scholarship slots, one each for Political Science, Business, and Engineering. A Ph.D. scholarship in Pharmacy was also proposed. The deans agreed to pursue the plans in detail for a MOA signing in the months to come.
ZZU is the largest university in Henan Province, China with 46 schools offering 110 bachelor’s degree programs, 256 master’s degree programs, and 127 doctorate degree programs. The Chinese institution has 72,000 students including 15,000 postgraduate and 1,800 international students and 9 affiliated teaching hospitals.
Statistics show that ZZU ranks 40th among the 2,800 higher education institutions in China. Four disciplines – Chemistry, Natural Science, Clinical Medicine and Engineering – have entered the top 1% of the Global Essential Science Indicators. The university has collaborated with more than 200 universities from 60 countries all over the world.
