Walker College is now accepting applications for the 2010 Holland Fellows for Business Study in Asia. Entering its 14th year, the program partners a group of Appalachian State students with peers from Fudan University for a 10-day program highlighting the opportunities and challenges of doing business in China.
Students not only hit the books, but they [...]

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There’s a lot to do in China. But Catherine Wood came with one specific goal in mind. And she was going to accomplish it. No matter the risk!
The Walker College student, along with classmate Will Curtis, are interning with China.org. The two recently managed to visit to the Great Wall. But not just any one [...]

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The Appalachian Today website has a package online promoting Walker College’s long-running William R. Holland Fellows for Business Study in Asia. A jewel within the many international offerings of the college, the Holland Fellows Program offers a unique study abroad experience for both students of Appalachian State and Fudan universities.
Both schools select a group of [...]

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For the past 13 years, Appalachian State’s Walker College of Business has enjoyed an exchange program with Fudan University in China. A group of Fudan students come stateside for a couple of weeks to explore life on our campus and surrounding region. Soon after they return home they play host to Walker students visiting China. [...]

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Appalachian State will celebrate Homecoming this weekend. A full list of weekend events is here.

Walker College will again have a tent at the Homecoming Tailgate, located within Duck Pond Field. There will be light refreshments served. The tailgate runs from 11 until 2:30 p.m. Please come by and say hello before heading to the big [...]

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Dr. Lyle Schoenfeldt has posted online several photos from this summer’s Holland Fellows trip to China. You can see them here.

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David Humphrey was one of the students who participated in this summer’s Holland Fellows trip to China. He and three other students are still there working with internships.
David is blogging about some of his activities there. For example, here’s his brief account of visiting Tiananmen Square.
At the beginning of our day we stopped to [...]

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Will Windley is one of several Walker College students to participate in this year’s Holland Fellows program. The group recently returned from their trip to Fudan University in Shanghai, and Windley spoke about it with the Gaston Gazette.
Windley said he was especially impressed by the young Chinese at the university. He found them not [...]

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It wasn’t all new food and karaoke. While the latest class of Holland Fellows was in China last month, they attended an international academic forum which was organized by Fudan University and sponsored by the Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies.
The students attended the event as participants of the Holland Fellows [...]

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We recently linked to some YouTube videos of our Holland Fellows students trying some new cuisine in China. Here’s a new video of one student hitting the stage for some karaoke.

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