An American College in China Struggles to Deliver

Autor/in	Mooney, Paul
Titel	An American College in China Struggles to Deliver
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 54 (2008) 34, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Intercollegiate Cooperation; International Programs; Business Administration Education; State Universities; Problems; Language Proficiency; English (Second Language); Cheating; College Students; College Faculty; Teacher Qualifications; Educational Facilities; Distance Education; China; Missouri + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Hochschulkooperation; Staatliche Universität; Problemsituation; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Prellen; Collegestudent; Fakultät; Lehrqualifikation; Bildungsstätte; Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht
Abstract	This article reports that language barriers and faculty turnover are the major challenges to an American college's struggles to deliver value to students in China. The Liaoning Normal University-Missouri State University (LNU-MSU) College of International Business, a collaboration between MSU and a local university in China, is designed to mirror academic life on MSU's main campus, in Springfield. The College of International Business was set up in 2000 for Chinese and other students seeking an American-style education who did not want, or were unable, to travel to the United States. The program initially offered only associate degrees, allowing students to finish their undergraduate education in Missouri. In 2002 it also began offering bachelor's degrees through Missouri State's College of Business Administration, with courses in the final two years taught primarily through distance education by faculty members back in Missouri. According to more than a dozen current and former professors and students, however, the college, which is run in partnership with LNU, is shortchanging students and promising more than it can deliver. The critics complain that the academic program is seriously flawed. Facilities are poor, equipment is lacking, administrators are unresponsive to their concerns, student cheating is rampant, and few of the instructors hold advanced degrees. Among the program's most fundamental problems, is that many Chinese students lack the language skills necessary to survive in an English-only environment. (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10