Partnerships

Wo International Center
Wo International Center belongs to Punahou School, the largest private school in the United States and is the home to Chinese Founding Father of Modern China, Dr. Sun Yet Sun. Hope Staab, the Director of Wo International Center at Punahou, and Kate Zhou have worked hard to set up exchange programs with Baojing Minority School district.

Princeton in Asia
Kate Zhou graduated from Princeton University with a Ph.D in politics in 1994. In 2003, Dr. Zhou went to Princeton to ask Priceton-in-Asia to help to send volunteers to rural Hunan. Every year, Princeton-in-Asia will send four people to EAFI to participate in teaching in rural China.

Center for Chinese studies
Prof. Zhou is also affiliated with the Center for Chinese Studies at University of Hawaii. The center supports minority studies in China.

East West Center
Many friends and people at the East West Center support EAFI's Education outreach.

China Center at University of Minnesota

EducationTesting Center (ETS)
Dr. Fanmin Guo, one of the TOFEL/GRE testing Research Leaders, is a close friend of EAFI and supports rural education outreach.

The Institute of Human Studies, George Mason University
The Institute of Human Studies(IHS)is a non-profit educational institute located in Arlington, Virginia. For the past 20 years, IHS has sponsored workshops designed to encourage students to consider various approches to resolve economic and social problems. IHS asked Dr. Kate Zhou to help recruit students from China and other countries. (letter from Director of IHS)

The Center for Civic Education
The Center sends two teachers to teach Chinese participants about rule of law and foundations of democracy every winter camp in Honolulu.

The Home of Hope
The Home of Hope is one of a very few foreign-run orphanages in China. Since 2000, they have given love and care to 150 homeless children of GongYi

Participants:

1. Dore Levy, Brown University,
2. Miche Yamaoka, Waseda University,
3. Lynn White, Princeton University,
4. Yoshinori Shimizu, Ph.D, Vice President of Hitotsubshi University, Tokyo
5. Wally Wu,Texas A&M
6. Mark Selden, State University of New York
7. Hong Yang, University of Minnesota
8. Matthew Allen, Assoc Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Auckland
9. Dorothy Solinger, University of California
10. Chen Xin, UC Berkeley.
11. Anita Chan and Jonathan Unger, Australian National University

Academic Advisers:

Gregory C. Chow: is Professor of Economics and Class of 1913 Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He and his wife has contributed to China's opening and education reforms.
Ken Schoolland: Professor of Economics at Hawaii Pacific University
Prof. Schoolland's book, Jonathan Gullible, has been translated into Chinese and many other languages. The book emphasizes on market principals.
Kent Calder: Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of East Asian Studies, Director of Japan and Korea Studies, and Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies
Quansheng Zhao: Professor and Director Division of Comparative & Regional Studies, School of International Service American University
Mr. Lawrence W. Reed: President of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a Midland-based research and educational institute. The Center's mission is to equip Michigan citizens and other decision-makers to better evaluate Michigan public policy options and to do so from a "free market" perspective.