Provost’s Third Trip to China
Focuses on Four Pacific Schools
May 25-June 5, 2009
Provost Phil Gilbertson and Associate Provost Jin Gong returned to China again
May 25-June 5 to expand and strengthen partnerships primarily for the Eberhardt
School of Business, School of International Studies, School of Engineering and
Computer Science, and the Conservatory of Music. The purpose of the trip was to
plan joint programs for Business, SIS, and Music Therapy, along with a major effort
to deepen research relationships that support the School of Engineering’s Pacific
Resources Research Center (PRRC) focused on the Sialite Cement Project. China
has become the most prominent of the target countries for the new “Global Program
for Professional Development” designed to provide certificate and graduate
programs abroad. Travel was extended to Singapore to strengthen the partnership
with the Center for Creative Leadership, and to resolve issues with the Singapore
General Hospital partnership to offer a Music Therapy certificate program for
Singapore students in both Singapore and in Stockton.
Provost Gilbertson was invited to give a keynote address at the 7
th
International
Conference on Strategic Human Resources and Entrepreneurships at the School of
Management at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou. The Provost’s address,
“Leadership through Social Entrepreneurship: The University as Social
Entrepreneur,” on May 25, outlined how University of the Pacific could be viewed as
a social entrepreneur organization. Other Pacific leaders in addition to Gilbertson
and Gong at the conference included Dean Rich Flaherty of the Eberhardt School of
Business and Professor Dan Wadhwani, Fletcher Jones Professor of
Entrepreneurship. Professor Wadhwani also presented a keynote address and gave
several guest presentations to the Graduate School of Management over several
days. Dean Flaherty worked with Dean Zhongming Wang to explore a possible joint
master’s program in Human Resource Management.
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