College to Host Southeast Asian HE Leadership Summit

Published June 15, 2011 at 11:20 am in Top Story by Doug Lippincott.

The College will host the 2011 Association of Southeast Asian Institutions of Higher Learning Leadership Summit (ASAIHL) June 19-22 in Niagara Falls, N.Y.

The summit, which will feature talks and paper presentations by world-renowned educators, will be held at The Conference Center at Niagara Falls.

Keuka, a member of ASAIHL, boasts the largest enrollment of any American college or university operating in China. Some 3,500 Chinese students are pursuing degrees at four partner universities. In addition, some 300 Vietnamese students are doing likewise at Vietnam National University in Hanoi.

Jeffrey Lehman, chancellor and founding dean of Peking University School of Transnational Law and former president of Cornell University, will deliver the keynote address.

Other scheduled speakers include:

• Joseph G. Burke, president of Keuka College.
  

  Keuka College President Joseph G. Burke

• Ninnat Olanvoravuth, secretary general of ASAIHL, chairman of the governing board of Srisophon College in Thailand, and director of the M.B.A. and M.S. accounting programs at Thammasat University in Thailand.
  

  Ninnat Olanvorvuth

• Brother Narciso Erguiza, president of ASAIHL and De La Salle University in the Philippines.
• Paul Dyster, mayor of Niagara Falls.
• Richard D. Legon, president of the Association of Governing Boards.
• Laura L. Anglin, president of the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities.
• Anne M. Kress, president of Monroe Community College.
• Milton L. Cofield, vice chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents.
• Adam Sitkoff, executive director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam.
• Ching Tang, considered the pioneering inventor of the organic light-emitting diode and  Doris Johns Cherry Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Rochester.
• Leway Chen, associate professor of medicine at the University of Rochester, director of the heart failure and transplantation program at Strong Memorial Hospital, and senior transplant cardiologist for the cardiac transplant program at the University of Rochester Medical Center.
• Felicia Tien Zimmermann, former Olympian, first U.S. fencer to medal at the world championships, and member of the U.S. Fencing Executive Committee and  U.S. Olympic Committee Board of Directors

Founded in 1956, ASAIHL is recognized globally as a non-governmental United Nations organization. It holds consultative status and is a participant member of the United Nations Educational Scientific & Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Collective Consultation on Higher Education.

ASAIHL’s purpose is to assist member institutions strengthen themselves through mutual self help and achieve international distinction in teaching, research, and public service. Specifically, the Association fosters the development of the institutions and the cultivation of a sense of regional identity and interdependence and liaison with other regional and international organizations concerned with research and teaching. ASAIHL assists member institutions in the recruitment and placement of faculty and staff, exchange programs of professors and students, and the development of collaboration.