Over the last several years China has been looking to other countries for examples of how to improve and revamp its educational system, said Ford Professor of the Social Sciences Ezra F. Vogel.
"China had made the decision that they wanted to have some of their universities really world class," he said. "They wanted to expose them to the best universities in the U.S."
"This is a critical period in the transition of China to develop their higher education institutions," Vogel added.
Administrators said the mood of the meetings will be one of openess and sharing.
"We are trying to be helpful to colleagues," Fineberg said.
Chinese university presidents participating are Chen Jia'er of Peking University, Jiang Shusheng of Nanjing University, Pan Yunhe of Zhejiang University, Wang Dazhong of Tsinghua University, Wang Shenghong of Fudan University, Xie Shengwu of Shanghai Jiaotong, Xu Tongmo of Xian Jiaotong.
U.S. university presidents attending are Rudenstine, former Harvard Provost Albert Carnesale, now of the University of California, Los Angeles, John Casteen of the University of Virginia, Nannerl Keohane of Duke University and Charles M. Vest of MIT.
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