National Chinese Language Conference

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Asia Society and the College Board are co-organizing a National Chinese Language Conference – the first, large-scale meeting of U.S. education leaders to promote Chinese language education and global competence among U.S. students. We are expecting an audience of 500 educators, including: school board members, superintendents, principals, teachers, higher education faculty members and administrators, as well as senior representatives of key federal agencies and national associations. The conference will take place April 17-19, 2008, at the Renaissance Hotel in downtown Washington, D.C.

The Opening Ceremony on the evening of April 17 will feature Congressman Rush Holt and Madam Xu Lin, Director General of the Office of Chinese Language International.

Chinese Ambassador Zhou Wenzhong will deliver his speech on the evening of Friday April 18, accompanied by a keynote by Gordon Gee, President of Ohio State University.

Other confirmed speakers in plenary sessions so far include Harry Harding, former Dean of Elliott School at GWU; representatives from the National Security Language Initiative; and several state commissioners of education.

To view more detailed Conference program, please visit http://www.askasia.org/chinese/announcements/nclc_program.htm.

For more information about the Conference, please contact Jeff Wang at Asia Society, 212-327-9333 or jeffw@asiasoc.org.