Wake Forest University will be going to Shanghai, China July 14-15. With fourteen WFU representatives of our faculty, staff, alums, and members of our student body, we will be personally welcoming the newly-enrolled students and their families to our entering class of 2012, introducing WFU to prospective students for next year, meeting new friends in higher education, and visiting faculty and schools area high schools. Dr. Peter Kairoff, classical pianist and WFU Professor of Music, will be performing at Dulwich College, Shanghai on the evening of July 14. A Chinese banquet will follow that evening to honor our corporate sponsors for this event: Boston Scientific, CNA-USA, Edison Learning, Lenovo, Steinway Shanghai, and Kilpatrick,Townsend Stockton. On Sunday, July 15, Dr. Kairoff will offer a master class for students and parents, educators and performers, who are interested in piano pedagogy. Several of our current students who are from the Shanghai area will be performing with Dr. Kairoff on Sunday afternoon.
The week prior to the concert, Wake Forest University representatives will be:
meeting enrolled students and their families;
making contacts with area corporations for future internship and recruitment opportunities for our WFU students in Shanghai;
visiting high schools,
and meeting educators who are interested in exploring opportunities for greater collaboration between Wake Forest University and China.
We are going to Shanghai to say thank you, xie-xie, to our new Wake Forest University families from China. We will keep you posted on our experiences here.
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