On June 17^th,  the delegation from Arizona State University paid a visit  to GDUFS. Fang Fanquan, Vice President of GDUFS met with the members of the  delegation, including Ajay Vinze, Associate Vice Provos, Pro.  Eric Wertheimer, Vice Dean of Graduate College, Prof.William Brashears, Director of Global Education Services, Thunderbird School of Global  Managementand Angela Zhao, leader of the its international projects in  Asia. Wu Junfeng, Deputy  Director of Office of International Cooperation and Exchange, Zhu Wenzhong, Executive Dean of GDUFS  School of Business and Liang Jie, Assocaite  Dean of GDUFS School of Business were present.

In the morning, the  delegation, in the company of Qiu Weinian, Associate Dean of GDUFS SOB and  Zhou Ning, Foreign Affairs Assistant, met with students from international innovation and business management class 14  and 15. Prof. Ajay Vinze introduced Arizona State University and W. P. Carey  School of Business to the students and gave a detailed account of the 3 + 1 + 1 joint undergraduate-postgraduate program.  The delegation spoke highly of our students' fluency in  English and their eagerness to learn.

In the afternoon, the delegation headed by Prof.Ajay Vinze had in-depth  discussionwith SOB on  cooperation around themes like“strenghening partnership between two  universities by taking advantage of innovation”and “interdisciplinary  resource utilisation”. Wu Junfeng, Deputy Director of Office of International  Cooperation and Exchange, Zhu Wenzhong, Executive Dean of GDUFS SOB, Ding  Hao, Director of Business Administration Department, Zhou Ning, Foreign Affairs  Assistant, MiaoXueling, teachers' representative and Liang Yan, Supervisor of  International Affairs, etc. were present.

After in-depth  exchanges during this visit, the two sides reached a consensus on  expandingthe scale of “3 + 1 + 1 joint undergraduate-postgraduate program”,  scientific and research cooperation, exchange visits between teachers,  short-term visits between students and other projects.