A possible collaboration between San Diego Miramar College and SCS-CUHK

The CUHK was founded in 1949 and is situated on top of a forest green mountain called Shatin overlooking the mystic beauty of China Sea with mountains and islands leading to Mainland China. It has four colleges: New Asia College, Chung Chi College, The United College and Shaw College. It is the most prestigious University in HK

A Comparison of Higher Education Between US and China & HK

CHINA AND HK

After High School Graduation

Students take Univ Entrance Exam

A small 3% passed and enter Univ

A large % failed and enter workforce or technical or

vocational schools

Graduates of the Technical Schools can never be transferred to the

elite Universities

As a result, many talent technical graduates stop short of their

education potential

UNITED STATES

High School students take Standard Admission Test (SAT)

About 35-40% enter private/State Colleges and Universities

About 50% enter the 2 years Community Colleges which are lower

divisions of the State Universities.

Graduates of Community College can transfer to universities or enter

workforce

Bright Community College students do not have to stop short of their

higher education

CUHK Selected Miramar College for Partnership

• To offer some of Miramar College’s Associate degree programs in Hong Kong

• Enable the Chinese students to transfer to the UC, CSU and private/public US universities and colleges upon completion

• To start with Business Administration and Computer Information Sciences

• Target date of instructions: Fall 2001

Current Collaboration Between CUHK and US Universities

• Master Degree in Managerial Economics with University of Oklahoma– UO grants the Master degree, sets the curriculum,

assignments, examinations and teach all the courses. CUHK promotes the program and coordinate Chinese students with UO

• Advanced Certificate in Arts and Entertainment Management with SUNY Binghamton– SUNY grants the Certificate, sets the curriculum, teaches half

of the courses. CUHK promotes the program, coordinate students and SUNY, and recruit teachers to teach the remaining courses

Has Contract Education been done between a California Community College and a University in

China? Answer is YES!• City College of San Francisco offers 5 courses in Peking

University. Chinese students take them and transfer them to CCSF.

• The contract project is financed by an airline firm. • CCSF provides program management and supervision of CCSF

staff in China. Airline Company and Peking University recruit students.

• “As long as courses offered overseas are identical as the ones at home, accreditation is NOT necessary, but WASC should be informed” stated Julie Tang, Director of the program at CCSF

And So the Journey Begins

The eagle has landed on the apex of Victoria Peak

A Journey of Thousand Miles Begins With a Single Step

Together in front of the library of CUHK

San Diego Miramar College Team stands tall in Front of Science Building of CUHK

CUHK is situated in Shatin, Shing Mum RiverScience Building CUHK

Students on CUHK Campus

Mr. Lee, Dr. Keir, Pro-Vice Chancellor Ambrose King in front of landmark of CUHK

The San Diego Miramar College and the SCS-CUHK Teams are ready for work.

Two days of intensive meetings

• Agenda:

• Nature and aims of proposed collaborative programs

• Major disciplines chosen and their curricula

• Minimum admission requirements (including standard of English language, both written and spoken)

• Prospective student populations

• Class size and number of intake per year

• Teaching staff and distribution of semester units to be taught

Agenda Continued• Delivery format and class schedule—intensive face-

to-face teaching block (2 weeks) and web based distance learning ( more info later)

• Assessment methods and criteria for graduation• Quality assurance—Program Advisory Committee &

Examination Board

• Participation of Miramar College students in the Hong Kong Program

• Facilities and student support (more info later)• Financial arrangements

Memorandum of Understanding Signed

• San Diego Miramar College (SDMC) will make every effort to provide courses for these Associate Degree programs which are transferable to and accepted by UC, CSU and other private and public US colleges and universities.

• To enable SDMC students to enrich their learning experience by studying in an Asian society, provision will be made to let a certain number of SDMC students participate in some of the courses offered in Hong Kong.

Elements of Memorandum

Memorandum continued• The Curricula of SDMC will be adopted

with appropriate adaptations for local relevance, if and when necessary.

• SDMC will provide qualified instructors to teach these Associate Degree programs. Once a pilot is completed, SCS faculty who meet the SDMC qualifications and approved by the Miramar College faculty may teach some courses.

Memorandum continued• SDMC is responsible for curricula

for teaching, setting academic standard and requirements, assessment criteria and methods, provide qualified instructors and for training SCS instructors when appropriate, admitting students, awarding the Associate Degree, liaison with UC, CSU and others

Memorandum continued

•SCS-CUHK is responsible for marketing, handling students inquiries and local student administration, providing teaching and support facilities, providing qualified adjunct instructors when appropriate, input on curricular adaptation, liaison with SDMC, UC, CSU and other colleges/universities on matter of articulation to the Chinese student’s bachelor degree programs.

A sense of accomplishment after the memorandum signed

Exchanging gifts

Exotic lunch hosted by Pro-Vice-Chancellor Ambrose King at beautiful

restaurant on Shing Mum River

What kind of facilities and living environment are there at SCS-CUHK?

SCS-CUHK is located in Tsimshatsui, Kowloon, opposite side of HK

This is Park Hotel where we and future Miramar faculty will likely stay

SCS Building is here

The living and working environment for Miramar’s faculty is utmost important and we found it to be very comfortable, affordable, and convenient. The hotel is 1 min walk to classroom.

The SCS-CUHK facilities is consisted of four floors in a building one minute walk from the Park Hotel where faculty likely stay.

The multi-media classroom is equipped with TV monitor, computer, projector and document camera donated from a Japanese organization. The classroom is somewhat narrow but colorful.

There are three

computer labs with about 100 computers

Three classrooms

one of which is for music

class

And a conference

room

one floor is for admin-

istration

(We did not see )

Western breakfast buffer is $6 ($US1= $HK7.5)

with a lot to eat and the coffee is good (noted Berta)

PARK HOTEL

A lovely dinner room at the hotel. We had our first dim sum breakfast here, 7 people for about $30. Food is really inexpensive if you eat at local small restaurants by the hotel. Lunch can be as little as $4 for two persons. We tried it.

The hotel provides fax, printer and duplication at the Guest Service Center. If you want to set up e-mail on your laptop in your room, you can either ask Gin Gee before you go or ask a Chinese guy named Vincent at the lobby counter when you are there, he will give you userID, password, telephone and electrical adaptors for $15 deposit. Airport shutter to airport is about $11.

Who’s at Hotel Lobby Guest Service Center

Hotel facilities is clean, comfortable and provide you a hair dryer and an iron. You can access to the Internet and http:// owa.sdccd.net and your website in your room. All for about $65 a day.

This is the street just across from our hotel where there are American Express and 7 & 11 store where Pat went

for coffee at 4AM by herself. Helen just enjoyed watching people walking from her window. Everywhere

is teeming with life and shopping multitude

The two programs selectedCourses for Computer & Information Sciences

• Buse 119 Business Communication, 3 units

• Buse 140 Business Law & Legal Environment, 3

• ACCT 116A Principles of Accounting-Financial, 3

• ACCT 116B Principles of Accounting-Managerial, 3

• CISC 181 Principles of Information System, 4

• Math 119 Elementary Statistics, 3

• CISC 186 Visual Basic Programming, 4

• CISC 190 Java Programming, 4

• CISC 192 C++ Programming, 4

_________________

Total Major Units 31

Required Courses for Business Administration (BA) • BUSE 100 Introduction to Business 3 Units• BUSE 119 Business Communications 3• BUSE 140 Business Law & Legal Environ. 3• BUSE 201 Business Organization & Mgmt 3 (?)• ACCT 116A Principles of Accounting-Finan. 4• ACCT 116B Principles of Accounting-Mang. 4• CISC 181 Principles of Information System 4• ECON 120 Principles of Economics I 3• ECON 121 Principles of Economics II 3• ENGL 101 Reading and Composition 3• MATH 119 Elementary Statistics 3 Total major Units 36

Courses Required by: District and General Educ For AS Degree

ENGL 101 or 105 X X 3 units

BUSE 101 Bus.Math X X 3

POLI 102 Am Politic X 3

HE 101 Health X 3

PE Physical Ed X 1

SPEE 180 Multicultural X 3

Biol 105 Principles Biol X 3

Biol 106 Lab X 1

PHYN 100 Physical Sci X 3

Humanities(Music, art, Humanities or philosophy) X 3

PSYC 101 Gen. Psychology X 3

Total Units…………...29

What can instructors do in HK besides teaching?

Doing Exercise with local people at 5:30 at Kowloon Park, 10 minutes walk from our hotel

Shopping

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Shopping

Take a Sentimental Journey in Hong Kong Harbor

Enjoy some of the most delicious dishes in the world

We might not have learned much Chinese but we sure ate plenty. Who say Diane Glow can’t use chopsticks?

If one meal is not enough, eat another! Eating is a fine art in Hong Kong

Go and smell the fish market and see how many people actually live

in junks

Hong Kong is safe to walk and wonder anytime

Take a ferry to Macau and see some of antiquities of yesteryears and the Portuguese influence. Macau was returned to China last year.

(Robin went to Macau and took the photos)

Join a tour and see the vista at Victoria Peak

Take a 2.5 hour- train ride to mainland China and see the dragon of the 21st Century

Or simply be young and restless in the dawning of a new day in HK

As instructor, how should I prepare for 2 weeks teaching assignment in HK?

• Textbooks- order with Dr. S. Wong, Senior Program Leader, 3-4 months ahead

• Be as prepared as possible with hand-out, quiz and exam materials before departing San Diego.

• If you need computers for your lessons, let Dr. Wong know so she can schedule them.

• Think of what materials you will leave behind for HK administrators & tutor after you departed

• Develop a lesson plan for 2 weeks with some flexibility as illustrated with a model for 17 weeks/term:

Week1 (35 hrs)

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri

9:00 Lesson1 Lesson3 Lesson5 Lesson6 Lesson8

10:00 Lesson1 Lesson3 Lesson5 Lesson6 Lesson8

11:00 Lesson1 Lesson3 Lesson5 Lesson6 Lesson8

12:00 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch

1:00 Activity1 Activity3 Exam(1-4) Activity6 Exam(5-7)

2:00 Lesson2 Lesson4 Preparation Lesson7 Lesson9

3:00 Lesson2 Lesson4 Preparation Lesson7 Lesson9

4:00 Lesson2 Lesson4 Preparation Lesson7 Lesson9

5:00 Activity2 Activity4 Preparation Activity7 Activity9

Week2(40 hours)

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri

9:00 Lesson10 Lesson12 Lesson14 Lesson16 Review

10:00 Lesson10 Lesson12 Lesson14 Lesson16 Review

11:00 Lesson10 Lesson12 Lesson14 Lesson16 Exam(13-17)

12:00 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Farwell

Lunch

1:00 Activity10 Activity12 Activity14 Activity16 Lunch

2:00 Lesson11 Lesson13 Lesson15 Lesson 17 Planning Dist Ed

3:00 Lesson11 Lesson13 Lesson15 Lesson 17 Planning Dist Ed

4:00 Lesson11 Lesson13 Lesson15 Lesson17 Tutor details

5:00 Activity11 Activity13 Exam (8-12) Activity17 Admin details

Important details before departure• Instructor gives students, tutor and administrator(s)

instructions-in writing -for the distance ed component. • Once at home, instructor interact with HK students via e-

mail, quizzes/reports can be attached. • If your final exam is NOT online, leave exam, blue

books/scantrons with HK administrator to be administered/proctored on 14th week (Tri-semesters, flexible

• Have HK administrator makes a copy of student’s test(essay/scantron), save it in HK for security and send original to instructor.

• Courses in HK must be same as at home in terms of syllabus, course-outline, exam, and course evaluation in case Accreditation checks. However, case-study can be environmentally adaptable. Keep these documents.

How can I best prepare my students for the distance learning component?

• If you have learning activities in your website with such multimedia as video segments, animations,Tegrity V/A streaming and photos, it’s best to download them onto a CD

• Burn enough copies so each student can buy it for about $2.5 (suggested by Prof. Ric Matthews). Assignments are stated in CD and students can access the info either from Internet or CD.

• This helps those with slow modem/when server is down. An example is shown here.

• Teach students how to use the resources in website

What kind of faculty and student support will be available?

• When instructor arrives HK for the first time, someone will meet him/her at airport and will be accompanied to hotel.

• Instructor may be provided a laptop by Miramar. • A tutor may be available for your students• If field trip is required, schedule it in lesson plan, let

Dr. Wong arranges it and provide a guide. • If you bring Miramar students(5 max), student pay

transportation, dorm $20/nite; meals $10/day ($30 X 14 days = ($420 + $900 flight) = Approx. $1320

Why go to Hong Kong to teach?

• There are 48 ways to leave your

bungalow for high rises, this is one way.

The students there will respect you.You will make new friends and be immersed in a new culture.

HK is safe, has good food and great shopping and English is the medium.

It won’t be 2 easy weeks, but there’s a time you want to do something NOT because it’s easy but because it’s hard and challenging.

• The faculty and Miramar College can be the Marco Polo of the 21st Century to bring Associate Degree Programs to Hong Kong, China

• "If we are to equip our students for functioning in the 21st Century world where geographic boundaries no longer define the limits of our interaction with others, global educational resources must be developed for local and global education opportunities.”(California Academic Senate 1995)

The End

• Xiexie = Thank you

• Zaijian = Good bye

• There will be orientation before you go.

• To see this presentation again and future info, visit http://go.to/gingee

• Click on Distance Education and HK project