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To continue the healthy momentum of growth toward sustainable development, the City University of Macau has appointed Professor Zhang Shu Guang as its next President, effective from September of 2015. The University Board of Directors is confident that a with his international experiences on higher education administration, Professor Zhang together with other senior leaders will open a new chapter for the University in the years to come..
At the age of 59, Professor Zhang is an internationally renowned scholar.He was among the first batch to be admitted into universities by the restored entrance exams after the Great Cultural Revolution in the Chinese Mainland, studying at Nanjing Normal University for his BA in foreign languages and cultures and Xiamen University for a MA in law. In 1983, he went to study in the United States, successively earned his MA in International Law and Organizations, and his Ph.D in the History of International Relations from The Ohio University, and then conducted post-doctoral research at Yale University. Starting from 1993, he began to teach at the University of Maryland, owning his tenure in 1994 and full professorship in 1998. . Being a prolific scholar, Professor Zhang has published over 10 monographs in both English and Chinese together with a number of academic articles, becoming an internationally renowned scholar in humanities and social sciences. A comprehensive university, the City University of Macau is featured specially by its liberal arts and social sciences programs. It can hence be expected that with Professor Zhang’s joining-in, these disciplines and programs will be further strengthened
Professor Zhang Shu Guang has also exhibited rich experiences in higher education administration. During his service at University of Maryland, he worked respectively as Special Assistant to Standing Vice President and Provost, the President’s Representative on Asian Affairs, and Director of the Institute for Global Chinese Affairs. In 2005, he was appointed as Vice President at Shanghai International Studies University by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, put in charge of the university’s academic affairs. Moving to Macau at the beginning of 2011, Professor Zhang served as Vice Rector and later Senior Vice President of Macau University of Science and Technology and concurrently as Dean of the Faculty of International Tourism Management, and Director of the Social and Cultural Research Institute.
In recent years, Macau SAR Government has been actively promoting the development of higher education. Within this backdrop, the City University of Macau has been responsive to the Government’s call by proactively recruiting people of talents both at home and abroad, so as to ensure the high quality of academic programs and university administration. Professor Zhang is familiar with higher education in Macau ,the Mainland of China and overseas, and has rich experiences in and proven record on international outreach, program building, academic quality assurance and accreditation, research promotion and institutional development. The University Board of Directors expects Professor Zhang to lead the university toward further excellence with still stronger programs in liberal arts and social sciences.
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