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The start of the China Program

1980 Dr. William Voris shakes hands with the Chinese representative of the Beijing Institute for Foreign Trade upon the occasion of the Thunderbird's agreement for a cooperative program with the Chinese university October 3, 1980. The Chinese school was later renamed the University of International Business and Economics. The agreement called for Chinese faculty members to come to Thunderbird, while Thunderbird students went to China to study. Thunderbird was one of the first schools in the United States to develop an agreement with a Chinese university. It was the second agreement the School developed overseas. The first was in Seoul, Korea with Sung Kyun Kwan University in September, 1972, which had three American students going to Seoul and one Korean student coming to the Thunderbird Campus. In the next year, Thunderbird developed a cooperative program with the Institute for International Studies and Training (Boeki Kenshu Center, Fujinomiya, Japan) in which executives came to the Thunderbird Campus as part of their IIST program, and Thunderbird allowed some of its Japanese language students to study at IIST. This was followed in 1983 by an agreement with the Autonomous University of Guadalajara in Mexico, a program that continued uninterrupted for 32 years. It was discontinued after the summer 2005 program. Photo courtesy of the Arizona Memory Project

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The start of the China Program<br />
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1980 Dr. William Voris shakes hands with the Chinese representative of the Beijing Institute for Foreign Trade upon the occasion of the Thunderbird's agreement for a cooperative program with the Chinese university October 3, 1980. The Chinese school was later renamed the University of International Business and Economics. The agreement called for Chinese faculty members to come to Thunderbird, while Thunderbird students went to China to study. Thunderbird was one of the first schools in the United States to develop an agreement with a Chinese university. It was the second agreement the School developed overseas. The first was in Seoul, Korea with Sung Kyun Kwan University in September, 1972, which had three American students going to Seoul and one Korean student coming to the Thunderbird Campus. In the next year, Thunderbird developed a cooperative program with the Institute for International Studies and Training (Boeki Kenshu Center, Fujinomiya, Japan) in which executives came to the Thunderbird Campus as part of their IIST program, and Thunderbird allowed some of its Japanese language students to study at IIST. This was followed in 1983 by an agreement with the Autonomous University of Guadalajara in Mexico, a program that continued uninterrupted for 32 years. It was discontinued after the summer 2005 program. Photo courtesy of the Arizona Memory Project