YSU renews partnership with Lunghwa University in Taipei, Taiwan

YOUNGSTOWN

Youngstown State University has renewed a partnership with Lunghwa University in Taipei, Taiwan, to create more opportunities for YSU faculty and students to teach and study abroad.

The Pollock House on the YSU campus was the setting for a ceremony formalizing the agreement today. Lunghwa Vice President Rujen Lin and her assistant, Feihsin Huang, represented the private science and technology university; YSU President James Tressel, Provost Martin Abraham and Nathan R. Myers, who recently assumed the position of associate provost in the Center for International Studies and Programs, represented YSU.

Other special guests included diplomat David Dong, acting director of the educational division of the Taiwan Economic and Cultural Office in Chicago, and Florence Wang of Canfield, who has been instrumental in developing YSU’s relationship with Lunghwa University.

YSU first signed a faculty and student exchange agreement with Lunghwa in 2006, and Myers said both schools hosted students in the years that followed. Several faculty members from both schools spent semesters as exchange professors, including YSU English faculty Linda Strom, Steven Brown and Barbara Nykiel-Herbert.