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SFA begins collaboration with China forestry school
Shirley Luna - May 9, 2008
A six-member delegation led by Jin Chi Zhang, dean of the Nanjing Forestry University College of Forestry and Environmental Science, visited the Stephen F. Austin State University campus in April. SFA’s Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture is working to establish a long-term collaboration with the school. Pictured are, from left, Changgen Lu, Nanjing Botanical Garden; Qingwei Guan, Haibo Hu and Jin Chi Zhang, Nanjing Forestry University; Yunlong Yin, Nanjing Botanical Garden; and Yinlong Zhang, Nanjing Forestry University.
The Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture at Stephen F. Austin State University has taken the first step in establishing a long-term collaboration with Nanjing Forestry University in Nanjing, China. A six-member delegation led by Jin Chi Zhang, dean of NFU’s College of Forestry and Environmental Science, visited the SFA campus in April.
“This partnership between SFA and NFU has great potential, and I look forward to welcoming our first NFU students in the fall of 2009,” said Dr. Daniel Norton, director of International Programs at SFA.
In October 2008, Dr. Dave Creech, a professor of horticulture at SFA, will lead a team of four SFA faculty members to China to present the collaboration document, tour the university’s forest resources, visit with students, and take in local nurseries, forests and conservation areas.
Creech has been cooperating with NFU and Nanjing Botanical Garden since 2001, primarily with Professor Yin Yun Long’s program at the Nanjing Botanical Garden.
“Conversations at NFU during the past few years led me to believe that a collaboration made perfect sense,” Creech said. “Nanjing enjoys a very similar climate and vegetational pattern, and both NFU and SFA have very strong forestry and horticulture programs.”
The goals of the agreement include short-term and semester-long student and faculty exchanges, as well as cooperative research projects that benefit the urban and natural forest covers of both countries.
According to Creech, the NFU faculty members’ visit couldn’t have happened without support from SFA faculty who are enthusiastic about increasing SFA’s international presence.
“SFA faculty members Dan Norton, Dale Perritt, Shiyou Li, Mike Fountain, Dave Kulhavy, Matt McBroom, Jeff Adkins, Jimmie Yieser, P.R. Blackwell and Joe Ballenger all deserve a big round of applause for making our Chinese visitors’ adventure here a good one,” Creech said.