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.
Tongxing Nationalities and Culture Education Fundation
The Education Advancement Fund International has joined in partnership with Tongxing Nationalities and Culture Education Fundation to improve education for minorities in Yunan. Tongxing is one of a few private charities in China.
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
The Institute of Human Studies, George Mason University
The Institute of Human Studies(IHS)is a non-profit educational institute located in Arlington, Virginia.ˇˇFor 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)
Participants:
1. Dore Levy, Brown University,
2. Miche Yamaoka, Waseda University,
3. Lynn White, Princeton University,
4. Richard Wilson, University of Tennessee
5. Yoshinori Shimizu, Ph.D, Vice President of Hitotsubshi University, Tokyo
6. Wally Wu,Texas A&M
7. Mark Seldon, State University of New York
8. Hong Yang, University of Minnesota
9. Matthew Allen, Assoc Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Auckland
10. Dorthy Sinager, University of California
11. Chen Xin, UC Berkeley.
12. Anita Chan and Jonathan Unger, Australian National University
