CSUF President to Speak at Education
Conference in Cambodia
January 08, 2003 :: No. 122
California State University, Fullerton President
Milton A. Gordon is a special guest speaker at a Jan. 11 “Raising
the Standards of Higher Education: Achievements and Challenges”
conference at Pannasastra University of Cambodia.
Also speaking at the conference will be Charles A.
Ray, U.S. ambassador to Cambodia; Harry Norman, dean of extended
education at Cal State Fullerton; and Margaret Faulwell Gordon,
dean of extended education at Cal State Dominguez Hills and Gordon’s
wife. The educators also will be meeting with their Cambodian counterparts
in the first steps to establishing educational agreements.
“It is an honor to be asked to join this group
of educators in exploring ways to develop and maintain a high-quality
education for students,” said Gordon, who has served as president
of Cal State Fullerton since 1990. “No university in any country
can think of its educational curriculum without considering the
importance of globalization. Meetings such as this expand our experiences
and enhance the efforts we make in serving our students and the
community in which we live.”
“As Cambodia continues to develop and as more
students are completing high school studies, increasing numbers
of these graduates wish to pursue their higher education,”
noted Kol Pheng, president of Pannasastra University, who invited
Gordon to speak at the conference. “It is crucial that high
uniform standards be adopted so prospective students will be assured
that credits and degrees earned are accepted throughout Cambodia,
that every university will be held to the same high standards. Further,
we must ensure that Cambodian degrees will be recognized in the
foreign lands, where many of our students hope to continue their
studies, particularly Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand and
the United States.”
Cal State Fullerton — with a population
of 32,143 students, including 1,367 from 86 nations — has
developed educational agreements with about three dozen universities
throughout the world, including Fudan, Northwest and Lianing universities
in China. This spring, CSUF’s College of Communications will
begin offering a master’s of communications degree through
the University of Hong Kong’s School of Professional and Continuing
Education.
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