Lamar University welcomed representatives of Taiwan’s National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences recently as part of a plan to establish a variety of collaborative programs between the two universities.
Ming-Yuan Wang, chair of the Tourism Management Department at KUAS, and Chihkang “Kenny” Wu, a hospitality faculty member at KUAS, toured the Lamar University campus and met with several LU officials. Officials with both universities also signed a memorandum of understanding to formalize plans to collaborate on educational initiatives.
The visit is an initial step in an effort to create several joint programs with Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, said Molly Dahm, associate professor and program director of hospitality management at LU. Planned programs include two online master’s degree programs in family and consumer sciences (one with an emphasis in hospitality administration and one with an emphasis in event management), study abroad programs and a joint bachelor’s degree program.
“We want our students to study abroad and encourage them to do so, but many of them cannot. If we can’t send our students out to the world, we’ll bring the world to them,” said Steve Doblin, LU’s provost and vice president for academic affairs. “In every discipline, an understanding of the world is important to success. That’s why we’re so committed to this.”
Doblin noted that the agreement with KUAS is the most recent among several collaborations Lamar University has undertaken with universities around the world.
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