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In the Spotlight > China Public Manager Training Program Announces June Agenda

China Public Manager Training Program Announces June Agenda

Posted June 10, 2008

Jiangxi and Tianjin are just two of the locations in China being visited in June by Institute faculty and staff as part of the China Public Manager Training Program.

Steve Wrigley, Institute director, and Mike Beck, director of the Vinson Institute's International Center, will meet with officials of the Jiangxi Administrative Institute to discuss future training needs and to attend a ceremony commemorating five years of public manager education in partnership with the Vinson Institute. Also participating will be Jennifer Frum, Institute assistant director, as well as Jianfeng Wang and Haixia Xu from the International Center. Laura Meadows, associate vice president for economic development at the University of Georgia and former commissioner of the Georgia Department of Community Affairs, will give a presentation on economic development to public management students at the administrative institute.

Public manager training will be held in partnership with the Tianjin Administrative Institute from June 16 to June 28. Vinson Institute faculty member Sherri Lawless, Savannah assistant city manager Sean Brandon, and Georgia Emergency Management Authority official Angi Ford will join Mike Beck in teaching courses on innovation in government, globalization, general public management, and emergency management. Rongrong Liu of the International Center is coordinating the training.

Beck and Liu will also be meeting with officials at administrative institutes in the provinces of Gansu and Qinghai to discuss future public manager training.

Hundreds of Chinese public managers have benefited from the training program, which applies the extensive instructional experience of the Vinson Institute and University of Georgia faculty to China's governance challenges at the municipal and provincial levels. The program, which is usually conducted in partnership with Chinese administrative colleges already providing education for managers, has been carried out in such provinces and cities as Beijing, Tianjin, Sichuan, Qinghai, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, and Shanghai.

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