Hopkins-Nanjing Center Spring Semester Returns to China

Washington, D.C.-01/20/2004-The Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies will return to its permanent location in Nanjing for the spring semester, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of The Johns Hopkins University and Nanjing University in Nanjing, China, announced.

As a precaution against severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the two universities held the center's fall semester classes at the East-West Center in Honolulu, rather than in Nanjing. The center's Chinese students and faculty joined their American and third-country colleagues and roommates in Hawaii for four months.

"Despite the relocation, the work of the center this fall has been very successful," said Kathryn Mohrman, executive director of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center's Washington Program Office. "For the Chinese students in particular, the Hawaii semester provided a glimpse into American life that would otherwise have been unavailable to them. We are all eager, however, to return to China because Nanjing is our home base. We look forward as well to renewing our longstanding partnership with Nanjing University in providing the unique academic experience that has been the hallmark of the center for nearly two decades."

The spring semester will begin in early 03/2004, after the Chinese New Year. The 78 students and 14 faculty members who spent the fall at the East-West Center have started departing Hawaii for China.

Established in 1986, the center is an educational joint venture between Johns Hopkins University and Nanjing University. It gives approximately 100 students from the United States, China, and third countries the opportunity to live together and pursue graduate-level studies for one year. SAIS administers the center's activities on behalf of Johns Hopkins.

For more information, contact Felisa Neuringer Klubes in the SAIS Public Affairs Office at 202.663.5626 or [email protected].