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Andover to deepen China ties
Updated: 2015-02-20 12:12
Seventy students from Phillips Academy Andover, one of the US' most prestigious prep schools, will travel to China next month to collaborate with their Chinese counterparts in the Shanghai Arts Festival, as the school continues to foster its long-standing relationship with China.
The students and 10 faculty members will head to China on Mar 7 to work with Chinese student musicians for the performance arts festival, the Massachusetts-based boarding school said.
"Music is a common language around the globe, it's a topic kids can connect on regardless of their culture, so it's a common ground," said John Palfrey, Phillips Academy's fifteenth head of school. "It's important that every student have experiences in their global economy when they're in high school, so I think the idea of connecting kids with people who are from different backgrounds is an essential part of what we think needs to happen in high school."
The school began its educational relationship with China more than 130 years ago when 11 Chinese boys were enrolled in the school in 1878 and 1879 to study. One of those boys, Sir Chentung Liang Cheng, Class of 1882, later served as Chinese Minister to Berlin and Washington. Andover began offering a Chinese language program in the 1960s and established an exchange program in the 1970s.
"Philips Academy has a long connection to China, dating back to the 19th century. We have many positive connections, but it is a strategic area of focus for our school," Palfrey told China Daily. "And the way in which that's expressed this year is that we are going with more than 70 students and a group of faculty, alumni and administrators to China."
Andover has seen a rise in its international Chinese student population, according to Palfrey. The school has 1,100 students, with about 10 percent international. Of that percentage, the school has several dozen students from China, and has seen about 12 new students from the country matriculating every year, which Palfrey called a "substantial number".
The school, which has an annual tuition of about $49,000 for boarding students and $38,000 for day students, is a need-blind institution, meaning students from any economic background are eligible for financial aid, and international students are eligible for grants that domestic students are, Palfrey said.
Phillips Academy's alumni include both Bush former presidents and Chinese-American investment banker and philanthropist Oscar Tang.
Andover to deepen China ties
Tang, who graduated in 1956, donated $15 million to Andover last year for the creation of the Tang Institute to support entrepreneurial exploration, the school said. Tang had previously donated $25 million to the school, the largest single donation in the school's history.
"I was sent here without my family when I was 11, and without any English," Tang told China Daily. "It took me a few years to learn English and then to finally get into Andover, but for me, Andover provided the platform for realizing my potential.
"It was at Andover that I learned that after really struggling to catch up for four, five years in this country, that I could do it and that provided me with confidence."
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John Palfrey
John Palfrey is President of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, one of the nation’s largest philanthropies with assets of approximately $7 billion, and offices in Chicago, Mexico City, New Delhi, and Abuja, Nigeria.
Palfrey is a well-respected educator, author, legal scholar, and innovator with expertise in how new media is changing learning, education, and other institutions. Throughout his career, he has demonstrated a commitment to rigorous thinking, disruption, and creative solutions often made possible by technology, accessibility of information, and diversity and inclusion. Palfrey has extensive experience in social change spanning the education, nonprofit, and philanthropic sectors.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Palfrey served as Head of School at Phillips Academy, Andover, the only school of its kind to maintain need-blind admissions. During his tenure, the number of faculty members of color doubled, and the student body grew more diverse. He oversaw the creation of the Tang Institute at Andover, which seeks to reform and democratize excellent teaching and learning.
Palfrey was the Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School. In that role, he expanded the Library’s reach and services, finding innovative ways to use digital technologies to enhance the school’s scholarship and teaching.
From 2002 to 2008, Palfrey served as Executive Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, which seeks to explore and understand cyberspace. He is founding board chair of the Digital Public Library of America, and is the former board chair of LRNG, a nonprofit launched and supported by MacArthur.
Palfrey has published extensively on how young people learn in a digital era, as well as the effects of new technologies on society at large. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces: Diversity and Free Expression in Education. A revised and expanded version of his book Born Digital: How Children Grow Up in a Digital Age, which he co-authored with Urs Gasser, was issued in 2016.
Palfrey serves on the board of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Palfrey holds a JD from Harvard Law School, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and an AB from Harvard College.
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John Palfrey Named New MacArthur President
March 5, 2019
John Palfrey, a respected educator, author, legal scholar, and innovator with expertise in how new media is changing learning, education, and other institutions, will serve as the sixth President of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, effective September 1, MacArthur Board Chairman Dan Huttenlocher announced today.
Palfrey has extensive experience making social change, spanning the education, nonprofit, and philanthropic sectors. Since 2012, he has served as Head of School for Phillips Academy Andover. Previously, he was the Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School and Executive Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Since 2014, he has served as Board Chairman at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
“I am honored to lead the MacArthur Foundation during such a critical time, when challenges facing people and our planet can seem insurmountable, but the tools of social change are evolving to be even more powerful,” said Palfrey. “I am an optimist, who believes that creativity, rigor, and selective disruption can make outsized social impact possible. I look forward to working with MacArthur’s talented and dedicated Board, staff, and grantees in Chicago, across the nation, and around the world.”
https://newsdotafrica.com/john-palfrey-named-new-macarthur-president/
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