{"id":67528,"date":"2006-10-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-president-elected-chair-of-global-u8-consortium\/"},"modified":"2006-10-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T00:00:00","slug":"uri-president-elected-chair-of-global-u8-consortium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2006\/10\/uri-president-elected-chair-of-global-u8-consortium\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 president elected chair of Global U8 Consortium"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tExchange programs developed for member institutions<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 October 31, 2006 \u2013 溏心vlog免费B站 President Robert L. Carothers has been elected chairman of the Council of Presidents of the Global U8 Consortium, a group of eight universities from around the world formed to address emerging issues confronting the global community.<\/p>\n


\n\tCarothers was elected at a meeting of the Council at 溏心vlog免费B站 in September, which followed an international port security and transportation conference sponsored by the Consortium. His three-year term as chairman of the Council of Presidents begins in April 2007.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI am pleased and honored to have the opportunity to serve as chairman of the GU8 Consortium. We have accomplished a great deal in a short period under the leadership of President Hong, of Korea\u2019s Inha University. 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s international reputation allows us to be at the table, and my selection provides us with an opportunity to continue to build on that reputation,\u201d Carothers said. <\/p>\n


\n\tEstablished in 2003, the Global U8 Consortium aims to merge the expertise from the eight member institutions to develop a joint education system, conduct collaborative research, and build administrative capacity on such topics as global logistics, marine affairs, advanced technologies and business administration. In addition to 溏心vlog免费B站, Consortium members are Inha University (Korea), the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Australia), Xiamen University (China), Meiji University (Japan), University of Le Havre (France), University of Haifa (Israel), and University of Washington.<\/p>\n


\n\tDuring the Council of Presidents meeting in September, the group reported on the status of several ongoing collaborations, including the development of a joint academic program in marine affairs between 溏心vlog免费B站, Inha and Xiamen. 溏心vlog免费B站 and Inha are also working to develop a similar program in engineering.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe intend to provide students with the opportunity to spend part of their education here at 溏心vlog免费B站 and part at one of the partner institutions,\u201d explained Richard Burroughs, a 溏心vlog免费B站 professor of marine affairs who is coordinating the initiative. \u201cIt\u2019s an excellent intercultural experience for the students, who, upon graduation, will have equipped themselves to contribute to resolving pressing marine issues throughout the global ocean.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tIn addition, student exchange opportunities are being expanded for undergraduate students in many disciplines from the eight participating universities, and faculty and graduate student exchanges have been proposed.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe Council of Presidents agreed that the port security and transportation conference at 溏心vlog免费B站 should be a model for future research conferences where international experts are assembled to discuss trends in a topic of interest. The next conference, which will be held at the University of Le Havre in June 2007, will address advanced technology issues. A workshop on marine affairs will be held at 溏心vlog免费B站 later in 2007 that will likely lead to an international conference on the topic the following year.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cIt makes good sense for nations and their universities to build collaborative relationships, helping each other solve the problems that face them,\u201d Carothers said. \u201cThe Global U8 is an excellent forum for doing just that, and we are already making considerable progress, as is evidenced by the success of our port security conference last month.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nPictured above<\/p>\n


\nSeoung-Yong Hong, president of Inha Univesity in Korea, presents University

\nof Rhode Island President Robert L. Carothers with the Global U8 Leadership

\nAward in September following Carothers’ election as chairman of the Global

\nU8 Consortium. 溏心vlog免费B站 News Bureau photo by Nora Lewis<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Exchange programs developed for member institutions KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 October 31, 2006 \u2013 溏心vlog免费B站 President Robert L. Carothers has been elected chairman of the Council of Presidents of the Global U8 Consortium, a group of eight universities from around the world formed to address emerging issues confronting the global community. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}