Colorado State University recently hosted Southwest University Delegation led by President Weiguo Zhang. Other 4 delegation members included Xinyong Ge, Director in President’s Office; Fajun Zhang, Director of Office of International Cooperation and Exchanges; Zewen Huang, Party Secretary, Faculty of Psychology and Yang Wan from Office of International Cooperation and Exchanges. It was their first visit to Colorado State University. In about 3 weeks, CSU delegation will visit Southwest University as well.
科罗拉多州立大学于10月4日迎来了由张卫国校长率领的西南大学代表团一行，包括校长办公室主任葛信勇；国际合作与交流处处长张发钧；心理学部党委书记黄泽文和国际合作与交流处协调员万阳。这是西南大学第一次访问我校。三个星期后，我校代表团也将访问西南大学。
Southwest University is the third largest university in China. They have 53,000 students, including 39,000 undergraduate students, 13,000 graduate students and 1,600 international students. Their strength majors include agricultural science, plant & animal science, engineering, psychology, art, etc., which are similar to CSU’s strength majors. Every year, about 2,000 students participate into joint degree programs and about 5% of their students study abroad. Thus, there are many potential collaborations between Colorado State University and Southwest University.
西南大学是中国第三大大学。在校学生53000人，其中包括39000本科生、13000研究生以及1600国际学生。西南大学的优势学科和我校非常类似，包括农业科学、动植物科学、工程学、心理学、艺术学科等。每年，贵校大约有2000名学生参与与各个大学合作的联合培养项目，约5%的学生去国外留学。我校和西南大学之间将会有多方面的合作机会。
In fall 2016, there are already 7 students from SWU studying at CSU for the joint degree program. The delegation had a great lunch with the students. The students shared their great experience at CSU.
在2016年秋季，已经有7名西南大学的学生来到我校参与联合培养项目。西南大学代表团一行一到我校就和7名学生共进午餐，并了解了学生在我校的学习和生活情况。
The delegation had several meetings with CSU leaderships, including Jim Cooney, Vice Provost for International Affairs; Dan Bush, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs; Kelly Long, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Affairs; Wei Gao, Associate Provost for China Programs; Mike Palmquist, Associate Provost for Instructional Innovation; Dan Goble, Director of the School of Music; John Moore, Professor and Head of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability. After this visit, both CSU and SWU are very excited to the future collaborations in joint degree programs at undergraduate level, faculty/student exchange, graduate programs, online programs, some research collaborations and collaborations in School of Music. SWU and CSU will have advanced discussions on those future collaborations at the end of October, when CSU delegation visits SWU.
西南大学一行会见了我校领导，国际事务副教务长Jim Cooney; 教授事务副教务长Dan Bush;学生事务副教务长Kelly Long; 中国事务副教务长高炜；创新教学副教务长Mike Palmquist; 音乐学院主任Dan Goble; 生态系统科学与可持续性系主任John Moore。此次访问，西南大学和我校对今后各方面的合作发展充满了希望，包括本科阶段的双学位项目、教师和学生的互访、研究生项目、网上教学项目、研究领域的合作以及和音乐学院的合作等。十月底我校访问西南大学时将会更深入的探讨以上领域的合作。