Professor Ke's sessions were well attended by graduate students in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, by Council's language instructors, by administrators, and by language teachers from local universities. Professor Ke gave a 12 hour workshop over two days. In all, about 60 people participated. This was a huge and unselfish contribution to our teaching and academic research here. Council plans to continue developing forums such as this for training and exchanging ideas.
Council continues to seek similar arrangements.
The China Policy Committee meets once a year, usually at the Association of Asian Studies conference, which this year, is to be held at the Boston Marriot, Copley Place, Boston. As with the Academic Consortium, anyone may attend these meetings, but only the representatives designated by the sponsoring school may vote. The other 11 members of this board are elected by the representatives of the Academic Consortium members. The resident director is YAO Hong, now in her third year there. From the fall of 1998, the resident director has been YU Ningping, who holds a Phd.D. in American Studies from the University of Iowa.