China Influence

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A student ambassador program enabled Women’s College students to experience the other side of the world – and build a bridge between Chinese and American educational cultures. In May, eight Brenau University student ambassadors embarked on an 8,000-mile journey to Wuhu, China, to meet some of their future Brenau classmates: about two dozen early childhood education [...]

Captain Courageous

Brenau Strong: Diversity. Yao Yao Zhu took an unusual path for a rising U.S. military medical officer. It went through Brenau, but it started in China.

Yao Yao Zhu took an unusual path for a rising U.S. military medical officer. It went through Brenau, but it started in China. Unless they’re trained a combat specialist and assigned to units whose main job it is to engage the enemy, military medical personnel, particularly those involved in long-term rehabilitative health disciplines, in the […]

China Influence Shapes Women’s College, Builds Loyal Global Alumni Base

From left, Jing Chen with fellow alumna Jennifer Lewis, WC ’02, at an alumni gathering in New York; Autumn Zhao with the Abbot of the Buddhist temple she is helping to build near her hometown in China; and U.S. Army Capt. Yao Yao Zhu in Norcross, Georgia, trying to recruit future occupational therapists to military service

When Jing Chen, BU ’99, left her Beijing home 21 years ago for the journey of more than 7,000 miles to start a new chapter in her life, she had no guarantees about the future. The narrative of her story put Chen in 1995 at Brenau University. Three and a half years later she graduated with a degree in business […]

Night Traveler

When U.S. relations with People’s Republic of China began the slow thaw in the late 1970s, only a handful of Chinese students – mostly older graduate students and researchers – studied in American colleges and universities. In the mid-1990s, Chinese students discovered Brenau. Jing Chen believes she was the first.  By Judy Cartwright When Jing […]

Autumn Zhao Builds for the Future by Discovering the Past

Autumn Zhao with the Abbot of the Buddhist temple she is helping to build near her hometown in China.

With her Brenau degrees, Autumn Zhao returned to China to help build a new Buddhist temple as the government relaxes restrictions on religious practices.