On October 11, a delegation of six people headed by Jon Stauff, vice provost and Michael Palladin, vice provost at Monmouth University visited our school. Vice President Zhang Weihu among other leaders met with Vice Provost Jon Stauff and members of the delegation. The heads of the Office of Academic Affairs, the Personnel Department, the International Exchange and Cooperation Office, the School of Computer Science and Technology and the School of Management attended the meeting and discussion.      

Vice President Zhang Weigu first welcomed the delegation’s visit, introduced our school’s development and achievements in internationalization and hoped that the two schools would strengthen cooperation and expand exchanges to promote the common development of the two schools. Vice Provost Jon Stauff thanked Xi’an University of Science and Technology forthe warm reception and hoped that the two schools would maintain friendship, deepen cooperation on the 3+1+1 Program and strengthen academic and teacher exchanges in the fields of business studies and computer science, so as to promote all-round cooperation between our two schools.    

Then Professor Wang Jiacun, director of the graduate student program of the Department of Computer and Software Engineering and Professor Lu Minhua, head of the Marketing Department of the Business School of Monmouth University described in detail the general situation and majors of Monmouth University for teachers and students of the School of Computer Science and Technology and the School of Management and answered in-depth questions about the 3+1+1 Program. At the symposium, students actively asked questions and the atmosphere was lively. The delegation visited the laboratory of the School of Computer Science and Technology, the Laboratory of the School of Management and other teaching facilities and spoke highly of our school’s innovation practice and teaching conditions and students’ performance.