Foreign Faculty
As of 2012, there are 137 foreign faculty from four countries teaching at SIAS. The majority of the foreign faculty are U.S. citizens, although Canadians, Filipinos, Japanese, South African, Mexicans, Argentinians etc., have also been sparsely represented. Within this block of American teachers, the trend has been to recruit college graduates with connections to religious organizations on the west coast of the United States. Most foreign faculty are hired to teach English, although a significant amount of teachers aid Fort Hays professors in remotely teaching the American courses
Most of the foreign faculty at SIAS are temporary, as wages in Central China are a small fraction of their earning potential back home. Also, the school pays less per month than many universities around China do for foreign teachers.
Most foreign teachers at SIAS stay for two years, although some have stayed up to seven and some have left after four months. After their stint at SIAS, most foreign teachers return to their home countries, although some continued their expat life in China, pursuing academic or business careers in other cities or provinces.
As the expat community in Henan Province is an extremely small, but very visible, minority (about 1,000 out of 100 million), opportunities are afforded to foreign teachers outside of their regular duties. While their visas allow them only to work for SIAS, they attend government banquets, functions, or appear as guests on television shows. This is not particular to SIAS or Henan as international teachers throughout China are afforded these opportunities.
Read more about this topic: Sias International University
Famous quotes containing the words foreign and/or faculty:
“Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River, and Boston Bay, you think paltry places, and the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography. But here we are; and, if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best. See to it, only, that thyself is here;—and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels, and the Supreme Being, shall not absent from the chamber where thou sittest.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of this faculty as a ‘language acquisition device,’ an innate component of the human mind that yields a particular language through interaction with present experience, a device that converts experience into a system of knowledge attained: knowledge of one or another language.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)