Updated at 8:19 a.m., Thursday, October 11, 2007
$400K gift to UH expands Chinese-language training
Advertiser Staff
The Freeman Foundation has donated $400,000 to the University of Hawai'i College of Education and the School of Pacific and Asian Studies for the Chinese Language Teacher Education Program.The gift will expand teacher training of K-12 Chinese-language teachers in the nation by training up to 50 new Chinese-language teachers in the next three years, a UH news release said. In addition, this funding will create an ongoing teacher preparation program to meet the increasing demand for more Chinese-language teachers in K–12 schools.
