September 2005, Vol. 4, Issue 8
STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FORMS
PARTNERSHIPS WITH FOUR CHINESE INSTITUTIONS TO
OFFER HYBRID GRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMS
"It was surprisingly simple and unbureaucratic,"
says Robert Ubell, Dean of Stevens Institute of
Technology’s School of Professional Education,
referring to at least four partnerships he and
his colleagues at Stevens have built to offer
hybrid graduate-level degree programs to
students in China. Any stumbling blocks, such as
those that could possibly be generated by
cultural differences and government regulations,
never seriously materialized. A master of
science in Telecommunications Management was the
first Stevens Institute of Technology hybrid
program to launch in China, officially started
in November 2003 through a partnership with the
Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), one of
China’s top technical universities. A Stevens
master of science in Microelectronics and
Photonics is also being offered at BIT. The
hybrid mix of these programs is one third taught
online by Stevens faculty, another third by
Chinese instructors in Beijing, and a third by
Stevens faculty in Beijing.
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PROFILE OF THE STEVENS BEIJING INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY TELECOMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
The first cohort of 21 Chinese students has
graduated from the master of science in
Telecommunications Management offered by Stevens
Institute of Technology in partnership with the
Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT). A
commencement ceremony was held in January 2005
in Beijing, with remarks made by Stevens Vice
President Maureen Weatherall, Stevens Professor
Kevin Ryan, and officials from the Chinese
Ministry of Education. The second cohort of 22
students is entering this month. Overall, this
is a successful program from both an academic
and a business standpoint, surpassing its
break-even analysis for the first cohort, says
Stevens Dean of the School of Professional
Education Robert Ubell.
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THE DIGITAL OPTIMIST
Editor and publisher George Lorenzo talks about
assessment e-portfolios and institutional
e-portfolios, some of the latest resources from
the popular press on China, and some other
points of interest coined "miscellaneous kinds
of stuff."
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