The 2017 China Opportunity Scholarship (COS) portfolio continued to successfully promote equal access to higher education in China and help equip disadvantaged students with the tools needed to thrive in college and beyond by providing scholarships to low-income and disadvantaged students. This past year, USCET supported nearly 30 students through its four active scholarship programs.…
The US-China Education Trust (USCET) recently came back from a visit to China, where two of its major programs concluded for 2017 in Shanghai and Wuhan. USCET held a Data Journalism Workshop at Fudan University, and co-organized the annual Media Education Consortium (MEC) Conference at Wuhan University, where the winners of the Third Data Journalism…
The US-China Education Trust (USCET) and Fudan University’s School of Journalism kicked off the Third Data Journalism Workshop in Shanghai earlier this week. Jonathan Soma, Director of Lede Data Journalism Program at Columbia University and Yu Yan are leading the workshop in China. Participants will learn the fundamentals of data journalism and will gain skills…
The international exchange community gathered in late October to discuss the current state of the field and ways to move forward in the coming year. The Alliance for International Exchange’s Annual Meeting featured an array of policy discussions, information and strategy trainings, and networking opportunities for its members across the exchange community. Key government agencies,…
USCET just completed a 5-week intensive data journalism boot camp at Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School on August 24! This comprehensive summer program is the first of its kind in China. Thirty journalists and students were selected from over 80 applicants from across the country. The participants, through participatory methodologies, learned how to gather large…
USCET is excited to announce the start of its 5-week long Data Journalism Incubator at Peking University HSBC Business School in Shenzhen on July 16th! The first of its kind incubator brings together top international and Chinese data journalism experts including New York University, University of Hong Kong, Caixin Media, and many more, to provide intensive…
Vice President Mike Pence hosted a reception at the White House on Wednesday, May 17, 2017 to celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Speakers included Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao and Acting Assistant Secretary of East Asia and the Pacific Susan Thornton. USCET President Ambassador Julia Chang Bloch was acclaimed as the first Asian…
From April 20th to 22th, more than 70 graduate students and academic participants gathered to share the 14th Annual American Studies Network (ASN) Conference in collaboration with Sichuan University in Chengdu. The Conference theme was “US-China Relations after the 2016 Elections: Trump, Congress, and the Issues” which brought insightful discussion on the pertinent issues of…
On April 19, The USCET delegation had a lively discussion with CICIR and PANGOAL about the recent Trump-Xi summit held in Palm Beach, Florida. USCET and the think tanks offered insight into each society’s perspective of overall US-China relations. One theme was obvious throughout the day – the US and China are able to listen…
Noted Asian American author and social activist Helen Zia was at Beijing Foreign Studies University on April 17. She had a public discussion on the documentary Who Killed Vincent Chin. This incident which happened in 1982 was a privotal moment which galvanized many Asian Americans to social activism.
