3 November 2006

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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Contact Reekitta K. Grimes
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rgrimes@shawu.edu

Shaw University Creates Partnership with Second Northwest Nationality University of the People’s Republic of China

Shaw University will host the president and a delegation from the Second Northwest Nationality University (NNU) of the People’s Republic of China to solidify an academic partnership between the two universities. The delegation will be on the Shaw University campus for the Partnership Signing Ceremony on Thursday, November 9, 2006, at 10:30 am in the Auditorium of Historic Estey Hall.

The purpose of the partnership is to promote international cooperation and exchange between NNU and Shaw. Shaw University has the technological infrastructure to deliver educational, economic, and cultural experiences to the faculty and students involved in the exchange, and will allow for collaboration with other educational and international corporations in Raleigh and Wake County.

In these early stages of the partnership, both universities will carry out activities of cooperation and exchange to include sending scholars/faculty to each institution for teaching, research, and training to range from one month to one academic year beginning in July 2007. Language Institutes will be created at both universities to assist faculty in English and Chinese as a second language. Other activities of common interest will evolve in the future.

Shaw University is the first historically black college or university in the South (1865), home of the nation’s first four-year medical school, The Leonard Medical School (1882-1918), and the first private HBCU invited to participate in the North Carolina Model Teacher Education Consortium. Since 2003, Shaw University has been under the leadership of Dr. Clarence G. Newsome whose administrative motto is “Strides to Excellence: Only the Best!”

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