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Dr. Juefei Wang, Professor of Education Emeritus of the University of Vermont (UVM), and
Program Director of the Freeman Foundation. He received his Master’s Degree in Comparative
Education from Beijing Normal University, China; his Master’s Degree in Foundational Studies
of Education and Doctor’s Degree in Education from UVM.
Dr. Wang has been engaged in research of comparative education and international education for
three decades. During the past 20 years, his research interest has been in Chinese education,
education about Asian cultures, international education, and Chinese language instruction in
American schools. Dr. Wang has published in both the U.S. and China, including book chapters,
articles, and research papers. His latest translated book is the Cultural Foundations of Chinese
Education written by Gu Mingyuan, published by the Brill Publishers in Holland, and listed as
Classic Translated Work by the National Bureau of Publications of China. He has made multiple
keynote addresses and presentations on international education and comparative education at
conferences in many countries.
Dr. Wang has founded and directed the State-wide Program for Asian Studies in Schools in Vermont. That program received the inaugural Prize for Excellence in International Education by the Goldman Sachs Foundation and the Asian Society. He has designed more than a dozen of exchange programs for educators and students in the U.S. and China to learn from each other’s culture and language, created conditions for more than 1,000 American educators and students to visit China and for more than 600 Chinese educators and students to visit the U.S., and has designed the content for the visits and managed the activities. He has offered several courses on Chinese and Asian cultures at UVM. He has actively participated in policy making and implementation for international education and Chinese language instruction at both state and national levels in the U.S.. For more than 20 years, he raised large amounts of funding to support education exchange between the U.S. and China and several other Asian countries.
The programs under the leadership of Dr. Wang received a national prize and a national recognition. Dr. Wang himself received two institutional awards and recognitions at UVM.
Dr. Juefei Wang joined the Freeman Foundation in 2008. As the Program Director, he has been responsible for oversight of the programs of education about Asia in K-12 schools and in higher education, training programs for Chinese language teachers, and the initiative for internships for American college students and graduate students in Asia.
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