Jinan University Summer Session is hosted by Jinan University. All of the program’s courses and transcripts are credentialed and issued by the Academic Affairs Office of Jinan University.
 
Jinan University is the first university for overseas Chinese students founded in China. It is currently the university with the largest number of overseas students in China, and one of the key comprehensive universities listed in the “211 Project”. The university is jointly founded by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council, the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, and Guangdong Province. The name of the university “Jinan” comes from “The Tribute of Yu” in the Book of History, which reads, “Reaching Eastward to the North and South, we shall spread the culture far and wide.”
 
Having long been known as “the First University for Overseas Chinese Students”, Jinan University abides by the wise guidance of the inspiring motto “loyalty, sincerity, integrity and respect”.  Jinan University, in every facet of its operations, pays attention to cultivating talents with fine Chinese traditional moral culture and actively implements the guiding principle of “facing overseas, Hong Kong and Macau” for running a school. From the time that it was established, Jinan University has been the intellectual home for more than 200,000 graduates from 134 countries and all 5 continents of the world.  With myriad students and graduates all over China, and all over the world, you will become a member of a very large, widespread, and successful university family when you come to Jinan University.

Faculty

  • Michael Barry
  • Irene Wolf
  • Baizhou Chen
  • Jorge Hernandez Fujigaki
  • Dana(Dean) Simpson
  • Vehbi Paksoy
  • Coaching Courses：
    Intermediate Macroeconomics/ Intermediate Microeconomics/ Business Law/ Legal and Ethical Environments of Business
    Personal Profile：

    Dr. Barry received his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, and J.D. from the American University. He is a tenured Associate Professor of Economics and Law at Mount St. Mary’s University. He has been teaching business, economics and law courses for more than 20 years. Besides, Dr. Barry also held positions (economist, lawyer) with the United States Department of the Treasury, the United States Department of Commerce, the United States International Trade Commission, and the Russian Ministry of Finance.

  • Coaching Courses：
    Introduction to Philosophy/ Introduction to Religions/Introduction to Religions II/ Introduction to Ethics
    Personal Profile：

    Prof.Wolf is a Senior Instructor of Philosophy at Penn State University for nearly 20 years. Prof.Wolf also won the Teaching Award and loves teaching Philosophy. She is a master at explaining difficult concepts and will assist student to love philosophy, and gaining some useful and helpful knowledge that will aid student in their life and enlightenment.

  • Coaching Courses：
    Financial Accounting/ Organizational Behavior/ Managerial Accounting
    Personal Profile：

    Prof. Chen is a full-time Instructor of Accounting at Pennsylvania State University. He was also the founding advisor of Accounting Society and a full-time accounting faculty at University of Minnesota. He was awarded the prestigious Michael Chowdry Entrepreneurial Scholarship. While earning an M.B.A from St. John’s University in New York, he successfully completed the highly selective Executive-In-Residence program.

  • Coaching Courses：
    U.S. History: Since the Civil War/World History/Latin History
    Personal Profile：

    Dr.Fujigaki holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He is a professor teaching courses on U.S. history, Latin American history, Latino history, Civil Rights in America, Mexican Contemporary History. He was an adjunct Faculty at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University and a visiting professor at Michigan State University and at San Diego State University. His research interests lie at the intersection of ethnic and immigration history.

  • Coaching Courses：
    Art History/Technical Writing/Western Literature/Public Speaking
    Personal Profile：

    Dr. Simpson received his master’s and doctorate degrees in Modern Languages from Middlebury College, as well as a Master’s in Higher Education from the Harvard School of Education. He is currently teaching at Tufts University. Dr. Simpson has published numerous poems and articles in literary journals in Spain and Latin America. Dr. Simpson is also mater in various languages like Spanish, French, Italian, Basque and Chinese, etc..

  • Coaching Courses：
    Calculus II/Multivariable Calculus
    Personal Profile：

    Dr. Paksoy received his doctoral degree from Brandeis University in Massachusetts. He worked as a visiting scholar at the National University of Singapore and the University of Regensburg, Germany. Upon returning to the U.S.A, he worked at Pomona College and Claremont McKenna College in California. Dr. Paksoy's research interests include algebraic and complex geometry, mathematical aspects of quantum information theory, and matrix analysis. He teaches a variety of courses from calculus to differential geometry and mathematical relativity.