MA Leadership Degree Launch in China
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The MA Leadership degree program at TWU is planning to go international. While international students have been participating in the program for a number of years, this year will mark the launch of the first cohort for a designated foreign target market. Twenty-two Chinese students will be the first to benefit from what is expected to be an ongoing, long-term MA Leadership program, teaching transformational servant leadership to Chinese business leaders. |
This plan has been in the works for more than two years. The Leadership Development International (LDi), an established leadership organization in China, selected Trinity Western University's program above 24 other options as the one they wanted to support for delivery of the program in China. Members of TWU’s MA Leadership faculty have been consulting and planning with LDi to design, contextualize the program, and lay the infrastructure for its delivery. In October 2009, the British Columbia Ministry of Advanced Education approved TWU’s plans to deliver the new degree program. The courses will be taught through an enriched online strategy, with some in-person orientation. The language of the program will be Mandarin, though the first two cohorts will be taught primarily by TWU instructors in English, while qualified bilingual English/Mandarin instructors are being trained to teach the Mandarin version
| Stan Remple, director of the MA Leadership degree program at Trinity Western University and one of the key players in the China launch, sees this opportunity as an excellent one for TWU’s mission. He is noted as saying, This development supports TWU's brand and new ventures in the global arena...clearly, our commitment to transformational servant leadership is seen to respond to Chinese business leaders' interests. It is an honor to be called on to serve China, albeit in a small way, given the size and international significance of China.” The program is also projected to generate positive revenue for TWU. |
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Stan Remple is currently traveling in Hong Kong and China, meeting with prospective students and instructors, finalizing budgets and plans with LDi representatives, and conducting leadership training workshops with fellow TWU professor (and founding director of the MA Leadership program at TWU) Dr. Don Page. He says that the coming months promise much work in finalizing the plans, and completing course development and contextualization for the Chinese market.
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For further information, please contact new coordinator of program support services for TWU’s MA Leadership degree program, Lydia Liu at Lydia.Liu@twu.ca. Ms. Liu is fluent in both English and Mandarin, and would be happy to talk with you in either or both languages!
