UHS REGENT SMITH, CHANCELLOR GOGUE HONORED
BY LOCAL CHINESE COMMUNITY
Top Administrators Presented with ‘Distinguished Friends of
China Award’
for Promoting Sino-U.S. Relations
HOUSTON, Sept. 24, 2004 – More than 60 local Chinese organizations
are honoring University of Houston System Board of Regent Thad “Bo”
Smith and UHS Chancellor Jay Gogue at the upcoming 2004 China National
Day celebration.
The Chinese Civic Center and local Chinese-American communities
will present Smith and Gogue with the Distinguished Friends of China
Award. The distinction is given to Houstonians who help increase
mutual understanding and friendship between the Chinese and American
people, and build constructive relations between the U.S. and the
People’s Republic of China through business, trade, cultural
and educational exchanges. Previous recipients include the Houston
Rockets, Mayor Lee Brown and Charles Foster, former chair of Asia
Society Texas.
The award will be presented at the 55th Anniversary of China’s
National Day Gala 6:30 p.m., Sept. 25, at the Westin Galleria Hotel,
5060 W. Alabama. About 600 community leaders, artists, educators,
public officials and diplomats are expected to attend.
UHS maintains exchange and study-abroad programs with many universities
in China, among them the Beijing Second Foreign Language University,
Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology; Guangxi Teachers
Universities with UHD; the National Sun Yat-Sen University with
UHCL; the Golden Leaf Information Technology College; Beijing Normal
University; and Dalian Institute of International Business.
UHS and the Central University of Nationalities in Beijing are
currently working to further understanding between the U.S. and
China, and between Houston and Beijing, through the exchange of
faculty and scholars, academic information and materials and periodical
academic publications. Regent Smith and Chancellor Gogue met with
a Central University delegation in Houston recently to discuss strategies
for the development of additional collaborations with Chinese institutions.
ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM
The University of Houston System is the state’s only metropolitan
higher education system, encompassing four universities and two
multi-institution teaching centers. The universities are the University
of Houston, a nationally recognized doctoral degree-granting, comprehensive
research university; the University of Houston-Downtown, a four-year
undergraduate university beginning limited expansion into graduate
programs; and the University of Houston-Clear Lake and the University
of Houston-Victoria, both upper division and master’s-level
institutions. The centers are the UH System at Sugar Land in Fort
Bend and the UH System at Cinco Ranch. In addition, the UH System
includes KUHF-FM, Houston’s National Public Radio and classical
radio station, and KUHT-TV, the nation’s first educational
television station.
For more information about UH visit the universitys
Newsroom at www.uh.edu/admin/media/newsroom.
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