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郑州西亚斯学院 | |
| Motto | East meets West, Integrating Knowledge and Practice. |
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| Type | Private,For-profit |
| Established | 1998 |
| Founder | Shawn Chen |
| President | Jialin Wang |
| Party Secretary | Jiansheng Ma |
Academic staff | 1,750 |
| Undergraduates | 29,600 |
| Location | ,, China 34°24′07″N113°45′29″E / 34.402°N 113.758°E /34.402; 113.758 |
| Campus | Urban; 362 acres (1.46 km2) |
| Affiliations | Fort Hays State University,AUAP,IAUP,IAU,UMAP |
| Website | en |
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Sias University (Sias,Chinese:郑州西亚斯学院;pinyin:zhèng-zhōu xī-yà-sī xué-yuàn), transliterated Zhengzhou Sias College, and formerly known as Sias International University (郑州大学西亚斯国际学院), is a privately owned, for-profitpost-secondary school inCentral China. Formerly affiliated withZhengzhou University, it is now entirely operated by Sias group, a Chinese-based corporation who claims to have incorporated in Los Angeles. It is authorized by theState Council of China to grant both Chinese and American bachelor's degrees, with the latter bearing the name ofFort Hays State University and several other foreign institutions. It is fully accredited by theChinese Ministry of Education.
Sias is located inXinzheng, near Henan's capital,Zhengzhou.[1]
Sias was founded in 1998 by Chinese-American businessman and venture capitalistShawn Chen who had the aim of bringing an American liberal arts styled education to China. Sias' enrolment has since grown from 300 to over 30,000.
Combining Chinese and Western educational philosophies, the participation of foreign faculty members and the use of English-language teaching materials also enhance bilingual communication skills and encourage all Sias students to explore global strategies to solve problems and develop innovative thinking.[2]
The rate of foreign faculty to students ranks first in China. It offers 35 undergraduate degree programs, 14 associate degree programs, and 6 dual degree programs with Fort Hays State University fromKansas, USA. It also has 5 graduate programs. The fields of study offering degrees includeliberal arts,science,engineering,economics,management,medicine,law,education, and theperforming arts.
Sias University has an east–west focus, as seen in its architecture, funding, and ownership. The Sias campus was designed by Peter Weiss, an associate professor atAuburn University and his partner Charles Martin. They have designed over 80 buildings and are the only Americans to design a college campus in China.[3] The administration building is designed to look like theU.S. capitol building on one side (facing the campus) and traditional Chinese design on the other side (facing the city of Xinzheng).
The school employs over 1,750 full-time faculty.[4] As of 2016, there are 138 foreign faculty from 10 countries teaching at Sias. The majority of the foreign faculty areAmericans, althoughCanadian,Filipino,German,Russian,Korean,Japanese,Indian,Australian, andLatin American educators are also represented. Sias' foreign faculty also are involved outside of the classroom by planning the International Culture Week,[5] culture trips,[6] holiday parties,[7] and bake sales for charity.[8]
The nine discipline areas offering degrees includeliberal arts,science,engineering,economics,management,medicine,law,education and theperforming arts.
Sias is one of the first schools in China to offer students American bachelor's degrees in partnership withFort Hays State University inHays, Kansas. Students take credit hours of American college courses all taught in English, and they are able to transfer the remaining credit hours from their 200 hours of carefully articulated Chinese courses to earn degrees. About 10% of all Sias students study under the partnership of Fort Hays, theoretically allowing Chinese students to earn an American degree without setting foot in the United States.[9][10][11]
Sias offers international (non-Chinese) students the option of earning the American degree, in which the international student attends all-English, or English-Chinese, classes.[12] The bulk of the international student body consist of aspiringChinese as a second language speakers either enriching their lives, or preparing for theHSK Chinese Proficiency Test.
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