Institutions of higher learning in China are adapting to changes within the People's Republic, including a drastic curtailing of government funding for higher education. As a result, the Chinese schools have had to begin fundraising and raising tuition.
"They are very open to developments on the outside," Vogel said.
The Chinese administrators also had the opportunity to discuss the role of research universities in education, looking at current trends in academia and discussing how to structure academic departments.
The conference concluded with a cocktail party and dinner hosted by Rudenstine and his wife, Angelica Zander Rudenstine, in the courtyard of the Fogg.
The conference comes just as Harvard has been increasing its own role in the Far East steadily over the last few years.
Fineberg, in fact, just returned from a 10-day jaunt that took him to Taipei, Hong Kong and Kyoto.
In Hong Kong, Fineberg met with members of the advisory committee on Harvard's newly formed Asia Center, including Robert G. Stone Jr. '45, a member of the Harvard Corporation, the University's most important governing body.
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