university of nebraska (nu) and xi’an jiaotong university (xjtu)

June 2013

University of Nebraska (NU) and Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU)American Exchange Center

University-wide Involvement

• The center’s administrative office is located on the Lincoln campus, but the AEC is under the direction of the President of the University of Nebraska. The AEC serves all campuses of the University of Nebraska.

• Kearney• Lincoln• Medical Center• Omaha

Our facility

Staff• Song Xiaoping, Director of AEC, and Vice-

President for Research at XJTU

• Chen Xiangjing, AEC Vice Director, and Vice Dean of the School of Foreign Studies at XJTU (Assistant Qian Xi)

• He Changzhong, Chinese Deputy Director of the AEC and Vice Director of the Department of International Cooperation & Exchange

Staff, continued• Ian Newman, American Deputy Director

of the AEC and Professor of Educational Psychology, College of Education and Human Sciences, NU

• Mariah Schuemann, Assistant Deputy Director of the AEC

• Vincent Kouakou and Derrick Stevens, English teaching interns

Gratitude• Professor David Lou, founding director of

the AEC, who had the wisdom to name the center the American Exchange Center (AEC). The word exchange has become central to our mission and our image.

Hosted visits to Nebraska from XJTU president and his delegation in January 2013

• May 2013 Research Forum: 2 ½ days meetings of 14 scientists from Nebraska and 21 scientists from Xi’an to explore areas of mutual interest and possible cooperative research

Worked with architecture students to redesign our teaching space

Lecture and studio workshop for architecture students led by University of Nebraska alumnus Scott Killinger

3-day workshop for architecture students led by University of Nebraska faculty member, Mark Hoistad

AEC Open Houses introduce AEC resources to XJTU faculty

Nebraska students present examples of their photojournalism to interested XJTU students

NU’s Skyros Quartet joins XJTU’s traditional music group onstage for a joint performance in May 2013”

Sponsored the USA booth at the XJTU International Fair

English-language speech contest with guest judges Rachelle Kamrath & Grant Anderson from the University of Nebraska, Kearney

English language interns from Nebraska assist XJTU teachers of English and offer tutoring sessions in the AEC library

AEC sponsors the graduate English Corner and also the English Corner for undergraduates

• English Movie Night

In the plans for 2013-14

• Host 10 XJTU faculty for a semester in Nebraska

• Expand English interns program• Expand outreach• Nurture connections• Increase XJTU involvement

NO. We do not have a website. We haven’t had time to develop it.

We are here to learn new program ideas that we can use to build on our own early efforts

SOME RECENT ACTIVITIES