Buffalo State Welcomes Chinese Students
The welcoming committee at Buffalo State College will be rolling out the red carpet and waving flags this Sunday. 17 students from China will be arriving at the college to study for the upcoming year. The students are coming from the Sichuan Province, which many of you may recall was severely damaged by the recent earthquake.
For all of the students, this will be their first time in the United States. Homes and schools were destroyed in the quake and the SUNY Board of Trustees has been working with the Chinese Government to create a unique program to bring the undergraduate students displaced by the tragedy into SUNY campuses.
Buffalo State College has deep academic and cultural ties to China and therefore it was decided that they would host more students than most of the other SUNY campuses. The welcoming committee will be dressed in orange Buffalo State t-shirts and wave flags and pompoms as the students arrive from the airport this Sunday, August 17, at 1:30 PM.
Everyone is welcome to come and greet the students as they prepare to settle into the American-style dorm rooms for the academic year. You can learn more about the earthquake that displaced these students and killed around 70,000 people here.
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buffaloweiner
and this is suppoed to be applauded....wasnt it just a few days ago that Howard was refusing 10,000 applicants a year...rather than expand the campus.
As much as Im not a fan of downstaters, am I the only one that says....US citizens should be given the priority of education slots
Am I the only one that thinks that Howard should leave her beautician alittle early so she can attend a meeting on expanding student enrollement, expanding progams at Buffalo State and build dormatories rather than let outside developers do it.
Youd think that there would be some push to emulate UB and get entrepreneurial programs in high gear by opening Buffalo State to office and lab and computer space for entrepreneurs and small companies.
Howard has got to be one of the densest do nothing (sit on their tush) minority quota presidents ever.
Its one of Buffalos premier assets, particularly on the westside/black rock area, but you would never know it from the near retarded administration that runs it. Forest/Grant/Amherst/Tonawanda look despicable...as if the collegeonly cares about the front entrance. Does that suprise anyone....I mean only caring about the front entrance is like pulling into municipal housing in a cadillac.
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al-alo
hey wait . . . i was a downstater.
oh, now i understand
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