Ya-ru Chen

Academic Dean for China Initiatives,

Nicholas H. Noyes Professor of Management
Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University

  The several indicators suggest that we truly value this program.

First of all, I think our students are so privileged to meet with the most important and influential figures on this campus.

For example, they have met President Garrett last October before she passed away, And just two days ago, they were able to meet with the interim president.

And also they pretty much have the best professors on this campus to teach in this program.

And that is a very strong indicator about the value that the school places on this program.

Number one, I hope we would be able to grow the program to more positions, and I definitely believe we are on the right track.

Number two, I hope we would have a very powerful and important alumni based in China and I also hope that our alumni would help each other and continue to maintain strong affiliations with both Tsinghua and Cornell.

And I certainly hope this program will have some of those leaders in the coming decades that would help shape the China future economic development.

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