Oregon House Hearing on China

There will be a hearing on China by the Oregon House Education Subcommittee on Higher Education (see http://www.leg.state.or.us/comm/ for membership) on Wednesday, February 14^th at 1:00 pm in Room D of the State Capitol. The University of Oregon, Portland State University and Oregon State University will provide panels of experts. Presenters are:

University of Oregon:

Jim Bean, Dean, Lundquist College of Business
Steve Durrant, Department Head, East Asian Languages and Literatures
Carl Falsgraf, Director, Center for Applied Second Language Studies
Chunsheng Zhang, Vice Provost for International Affairs and Outreach

Portland State University

Gil Latz, Vice Provost for International Affairs, Professor of Geography
Mel Gurtov, Professor of Political Science
Marcia Fischer, Assistant Dean, College of Engineering and Computer Science
Patricia Wetzel, Director, Institute for Asian Studies, PSU's Confucius Institute

Oregon State University

Joe Hoff, Director of International Education and Outreach
David Hannaway, Professor, Crop and Soil Science
Chris Bell, Professor and Associate Dean, College of Engineering
Hua-Yu Li, Associate Professor, Political Science

Oregon International Council

Bob Willner, Executive Director

The Committee is Chaired by Representative Peter Buckley.

The agenda and participants will be posted at http://www.leg.state.or.us/07reg/agenda/webagendas.htm (then go to House Committees Agendas, then Education Committee, then scroll to the Education Subcommittee on Higher Education).

You, of course, can attend. If you are interested but cannot attend, you have two choices. Your can watch the hearing live by going to http://www.oregonchannel.org/rams.htm and clicking on the appropriate hearing room D. If you are not able to watch the hearing live, you can listen to the archived audio by going to http://www.leg.state.or.us/listn/ , clicking on Archives of Committee Meetings from 2007 Regular Session, the click on House Education, then click on the date of the hearing.