| Award winners of the only award for presidents in universities and colleges in China will be announced in Beijing Normal University on March 31, 2006.
This University President Award is sponsored by IET Educational Foundation and Founder Group. 12 candidates have been nominated, from which 5 winners will be selected.
Dr. Fun-Den Wang, chairman of IET Educational Foundation introduced that the ˇ°University President Awardˇ± was primarily intended to improve the management level of Chinese Education and to promote the development of Chinese Education. Award winners are selected from the 26 IET Member Universities every two years. Every member university can nominate one candidate each time among the chairman and co- chairman of the University Council, president and vice president, who are in the universities or have retired within 5 years. Prof. Min Weifang, Chairman of the University Council at Peking University, Prof. Shen Shituan, Previous President of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Prof. Cheng Gongdong, Previous President of Dalian University of Technology had won the first University Presidential Award in 2004.
Speaking of the relationship between enterprises and education, Mr. Wei Xin, chairman of Founder Group said the development of education needed more involvement and support from society and enterprises. He said that he sponsored this University President Award out of the social responsibility of Founder. This year is the 20th anniversary of Founder. Adhering to its developing principle ˇ°from education, rewarding educationˇ±, Founder is willing to reward society through charitable activities, and put more effort on the unification of enterprises and society, as long as Founder Group is moving forward healthily and sustainably. He hopes that more attentions and support from society on education would be attracted through this ceremony. In the course of its development, Founder had kept intimate relationship with the Chinese education and made its maximum efforts to support all kinds of education. Founder and its affiliated companies also provided advanced high-tech product to the education career.
IET Foundation was established in 1993 by Chinese-Americans Dr. Fun-Dan Wang and his wife Dr. Agnes Chia Wang. Its endorsement comes from International Engineering Technology, Inc. (IET, Inc.). IET Educational Foundation was established in 1994 in Beijing. Apart from the University President Award, IET has set up several awards for excellent students, distinguished professors and researchers in universities and college. Since its establishment, IET has supported over 3,000 young teachers and excellent students from 26 member universities in China.
In addition, IET gave great support to China Open Resources for Education (CORE). In September 2003, IET sponsored the MIT Open Courseware International Forum in Beijing. Later in October the same year, IET established China Open Resources for Education (CORE). Through the international cooperation with IET, CORE utilizes OpenCourseWare from MIT and other universities to enhance the quality of education in China and to share Chinese quality courseware worldwide. At present, CORE has shared the top-ranked education resources from home and abroad on the Internet. And IET is willing to contribute more to education of China in the future. |
