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发信人: pvglax (两机场), 信区: Shanghai
标 题: 加州伯克利大学将建上海分校区
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Nov 18 12:56:19 2011, 美东)
纽约时报：世界名校上海办分校。美国公立学校受困于经济危机之时，加州伯克利大学
宣布，2012年该校将与上海市政府携手共建张江分校区，接下来5年的建设资金将主要
由上海市政府和园区企业提供。
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NY TIMES
Berkeley Reveals Plan for Academic Center in China
SHANGHAI — The University of California, Berkeley announced this week that
it plans to open a large research and teaching facility here as part of a
broader plan to bolster its presence in China.
The public university, which is struggling under budget constraints imposed
by the state of California, said the Shanghai center would cater to
engineering graduate students and be financed over the next five years
largely by the Shanghai government and companies operating here. The program
is expected to begin in July 2012.
Berkeley’s announcement comes as other prominent American universities are
racing to build closer ties to China, hoping to attract new students, deepen
research capabilities and set up sites to train business professionals to
succeed in the booming Chinese market. New York University and Duke
University are each building a campus in the Shanghai area, and Stanford is
building a $5 million research center on the campus of the elite Peking
University in the city of Beijing.
“This will be a platform or base of operations for us” said Tsu-Jae King
Liu, a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at Berkeley
, and the associate dean for research at the College of Engineering. “A
major reason to do this is to enhance the opportunities for our students. We
want them to be better prepared to become global leaders.”
China is eager to attract branches of world-class universities in the hope
of upgrading its own universities. And big cities like Beijing and Shanghai
are pushing for partnerships with prestigious American institutions to
attract top students and to create research and development centers that
they hope will form the base of a modern, high-tech economy.
The scramble to set up American programs here is happening at a time when
Chinese students are flocking to America’s best colleges and universities
and elite boarding schools. Chinese student enrollments in the United States
are strengthening university budgets because many of the students are
paying full college tuitions, which can range from $15,000 to $50,000 a year.
Last week, the Institute of International Education, a nonprofit group in
New York, said nearly 158,000 Chinese students were enrolled in American
colleges and universities this academic year. That figure was up about 23
percent from the previous year and was the second consecutive year China
topped India on the list of countries sending international students to the
United States.
American college administrators say creating programs here will help support
fundraising efforts that target wealthy Chinese alumni; it could also help
recruit undergraduate students and strengthen research programs by utilizing
resources at Chinese institutions.
Some education experts warn, though, that the universities could damage
their reputations if the programs in China came to be viewed as lowering
standards or profiting from charging high tuition, but relying on local, low
-cost teaching staffs.
The Chinese government requires foreign colleges and universities to form a
partnership with a local institution, or be approved by the government. Such
programs vary widely. In Berkeley’s case, the university has signed a
memorandum of understanding to open its Shanghai facility at the Zhangjiang
High-Tech Park, a sprawling government-controlled campus that has attracted
global companies like DuPont, Sony, Honeywell and Lenovo.
What is unusual is that the Shanghai government and the company that
operates the high-tech park have agreed to build a 50,000-square-foot
building for Berkeley at no cost, with a five-year rent-free lease.
The Zhangjiang High-Tech Park also agreed to raise at least $10 million a
year over the next five years to finance Berkeley research in collaboration
with Chinese institutions.
The agreement was made with Berkeley’s College of Engineering, which has a
reputation for training some of the world’s most capable engineers and
computer scientists. The center will be established for graduate students
who gain admission to Berkeley’s main campus, as well as Berkeley-appointed
researchers. There is no plan to establish an undergraduate or degree-
granting program here.
Several other Berkeley professional schools, including the Haas School of
Business and the Law School, are also considering initiatives in China.
Berkeley’s chancellor, Robert Birgeneau, and the dean of its engineering
school, S. Shankar Sastry, were in Shanghai last weekend to sign the
agreement. |
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