On the morning of May 16, 2018, the opening ceremony of the third phase of the Chinese-American Psychological Summer School was held in the conference room on the fourth floor of the School of Education Science, Henan University. Prof. Zhijun Liu, vice president of Henan University, Prof. Chen Miao, executive vice president of the Graduate School, Prof. Jie Yang, associate dean of the School of Education Science, Prof. Junfeng Zhao, School of Education Science, Dr. Sayward Harrison, University of South Carolina, USA, Dr. Kristen Varjas, Georgia State University and other experts attended the opening ceremony. The ceremony was chaired by Professor Xiaoming Li, tenured Professor at University of South Carolina and Yellow River Scholar at Henan University.
At the opening ceremony, the vice president of Zhijun Liu expressed warm congratulations to Henan University on behalf of the Chinese and American psychological summer school, and expressed warm welcome and high respect to foreign experts. He also pointed out that hosting summer school is an important measure to implement the international development strategy of Henan University and the concept of international education. He put forward his sincere hopes, and he hope the students will seize this opportunity and enhance their English level while strengthening their professional skills. The vice president, Professor Jie Yang, also made a brief speech at the opening ceremony. He first expressed his good wishes to the opening of the summer school, and thank the foreign experts again for their hard work in the summer school teaching activities.
Sayward Harrison said in her speech: Thanks so much for the invitation of Henan University. I am delighted to come to Henan University again to learn and communication with the teachers and classmates. Teachers in this teaching team will take the class seriously, hope the students make progress, create new ideas in the research, and expect to have more communication with everyone in the process of learning.
Professor Junfeng Zhao gave a detailed introduction to the course arrangement. This psychological summer school focuses on teaching for 10 days. The psychology professors from a number of international universities, such as Georgia State University and the University of South Carolina, are invited to set up a whole English psychological course on Health and Wellbeing of Children and Adolescents for postgraduate students. Besides, there are lectures for undergraduates and seminars for teachers of psychology department. Dr. Yanan Chen, the adviser of the class, and the monitors are expected to help the teaching activities of foreign teachers. Everyone should cherish this opportunity, preview and finish the study on time, and get the course completion certificate smoothly.
The development of the summer school in China and the United States, in which foreign scholars are introduced to lectures, is a major innovation in the model of international cooperative school-running, which will help to improve the international level of the subject, and wish the success of this summer school!
