Zhengzhou Shengda University (simplified Chinese: 郑州升达经贸管理学院; traditional Chinese: 鄭州昇達經貿管理學院; pinyin: Zhèngzhōu Shēngdá Jīngmào Guǎnlǐ Xuéyuàn; lit. 'Zhengzhou Shengda Economic and Trade Management College'), is a private university located in Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
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| Motto | 勤俭朴实、自力更生 (Simplified Chinese) |
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Motto in English | Industry, Thrift, Independence and Self-reliance |
| Type | Private |
| Established | 1994 (2011 independent from Zhengzhou University) |
| Founder | 王广亚 (Wang Guangya) |
Academic staff | 10 foreign teachers (2017) |
| Students | ~25,000 [1] |
| Location | , |
| Website | www.shengda.edu.cn/en |
The university was founded on June 21, 1994, through a collaboration between the Taiwan Guangxing Culture and Education Fund, led by Dr. Wang Guangya, and Zhengzhou University, a major public university in China. This partnership was necessary due to regulations requiring new colleges with non-domestic sponsors to have "mother schools" for supervision. Initially operating as Shengda Economics, Trade, and Management College of Zhengzhou University, it gained full independence as a full-time private institution of higher education with independent legal personality as well as its current name in 2011.
The university has two campuses, the main one located in Xinzheng Education Zone and another in Dengfeng County, Zhengzhou. The main campus covers an area of 330 acres with a building area of 500,000 square meters.
Riots
editShengda College garnered international attention, when riots broke out among students on June 16, 2006.[2] Students of the private college had been led to believe that their diplomas would read "Zhengzhou University", a respected public institution, without mention of Shengda. Students of Shengda, often unable to gain entry to Zhengzhou University, were willing to pay tuition of US$2500 per year as opposed to $500 for the public university under the promise of a diploma that only mentioned the parent university. However, regulations instituted in 2003 forced the school to include its own name and the diplomas received by the class of 2006 read "Zhengzhou University - Shengda Economic, Trade and Management College".[2] The reaction was one of the larger and more prolonged violent student demonstrations since the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.[2] As a result of the riot, the headmaster of the school resigned. The student reaction follows the steep rise in China of college graduates and tightening of the job market in the liberalizing economy.[2]
References
edit- ^ Shengda Foreign Affairs Office
- ^ a b c d Joseph Kahn, Rioting in China Over Label on College Diplomas, The New York Times, June 22, 2006, Accessed January 8, 2008.
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