{"id":4565,"date":"2014-06-26T16:57:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T20:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=4565"},"modified":"2022-03-24T10:26:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T14:26:50","slug":"hong-kong-professors-visit-k-for-civic-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/hong-kong-professors-visit-k-for-civic-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Professors Visit K for Civic Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/06\/hineseDelegation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4566 size-full\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/06\/hineseDelegation.jpg\" alt=\"A group of Lingnan University and Kalamazoo College representatives\" width=\"700\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/06\/hineseDelegation.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/06\/hineseDelegation-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/06\/hineseDelegation-500x234.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a>Though the two institutions are 8,000 miles apart, Hong Kong\u2019s only liberal arts school, Lingnan University, might not be all that different from Kalamazoo College. President Leonard Cheng said Lingnan aims to create students who can tackle human issues from a global perspective and gain both a breadth and depth of vision.<\/p>\n<p>On June 4, 17 Lingnan faculty members visited K to learn about liberal arts education in general, and civic engagement in particular. They spent a full day with small panels of K faculty and administrators, including Mary Jane Underwood Stryker Center for Civic Engagement Director Alison Geist and Provost Mickey McDonald.<\/p>\n<p>All sessions revolved around civic engagement, peer-to-peer mentorship, and finding research opportunities for students.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald said Lingnan University \u201cis looking to make civic engagement more ubiquitous.\u201d While these professors visited various schools in the Great Lakes College Association during their 11 days in the United States, both Michigan State University and K hold a more prominent history in civic engagement.<\/p>\n<p>Geist emphasized that K focuses on social justice leadership rather than volunteer service. \u201cThe focus is on social change, not charity,\u201d Geist said, noting that the College\u2019s philosophy rests on \u201cstudents as colleagues\u201d and giving students leadership positions to tackle complex tasks.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the distance, the goals of both K and Lingnan are not so different after all. Lingnan\u2019s motto is \u201cEducation for Service,\u201d and President Cheng said \u201can education promotes a capacity to build a better world by engaging with society and those in need.\u201d After visiting K, Lingnan aims to better connect experience with education and leadership with civics. <em><strong>Article by Colin Smith \u201915<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though the two institutions are 8,000 miles apart, Hong Kong\u2019s only liberal arts school, Lingnan University, might not be all that different from Kalamazoo College. President Leonard Cheng said Lingnan aims to create students who can tackle human issues from a global perspective and gain both a breadth and depth of vision. On June 4, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[17,39,13],"post_formats":[],"class_list":["post-4565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-staff","tag-campus","tag-faculty","tag-service-learning"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Hong Kong Professors Visit K for Civic Engagement - News and Events<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Though the two institutions are 8,000 miles apart, Hong Kong\u2019s only liberal arts school, Lingnan University, might not be all that different from\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/hong-kong-professors-visit-k-for-civic-engagement\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hong Kong Professors Visit K for Civic Engagement - 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President Leonard Cheng said Lingnan aims to create students who can tackle human issues from a global perspective and gain both a breadth and depth of vision.<\/p>\n<p>On June 4, 17 Lingnan faculty members visited K to learn about liberal arts education in general, and civic engagement in particular. They spent a full day with small panels of K faculty and administrators, including Mary Jane Underwood Stryker Center for Civic Engagement Director Alison Geist and Provost Mickey McDonald.<\/p>\n<p>All sessions revolved around civic engagement, peer-to-peer mentorship, and finding research opportunities for students.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald said Lingnan University \u201cis looking to make civic engagement more ubiquitous.\u201d While these professors visited various schools in the Great Lakes College Association during their 11 days in the United States, both Michigan State University and K hold a more prominent history in civic engagement.<\/p>\n<p>Geist emphasized that K focuses on social justice leadership rather than volunteer service. \u201cThe focus is on social change, not charity,\u201d Geist said, noting that the College\u2019s philosophy rests on \u201cstudents as colleagues\u201d and giving students leadership positions to tackle complex tasks.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the distance, the goals of both K and Lingnan are not so different after all. Lingnan\u2019s motto is \u201cEducation for Service,\u201d and President Cheng said \u201can education promotes a capacity to build a better world by engaging with society and those in need.\u201d After visiting K, Lingnan aims to better connect experience with education and leadership with civics. <em><strong>Article by Colin Smith \u201915<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4565"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9619,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565\/revisions\/9619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4565"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=4565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}