PERSONAL/PROFESSIONAL RESUME

Professional Objective: Committed to making contributions to the education that inspires and enables future citizens to create a better world.

Name: Song, Hongzhuan “Sam”

Education Background: PhD in Comparative and International Development /education, Department of Educational Policy & Administration, University of Minnesota; MA in TESOL from Fresno Pacific University, CA; BA in American and British Language and Literature from Anqing Teachers College (China)

Contact address: 5147 Chicago Avenue ~Minneapolis, MN 55417; E-mail: [email protected]; Phone: 651-398-1291 (TEL) and 612-827-7398 (FAX)

Professional Experiences:

 President (CEO) of International Council for Education Development (ICED) 04/2004-present  Adjunct Professor of Education and overseas director for international education at Anqing Teachers College (China), 08/2007- present  Chief Counselor to the President for International Relations, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN, 09/2006-present  Senior Associate of Chinese Affairs for International Council for Higher Education, 08/2003-03/2004  President of GradSEHD ---Graduate Students of Education and Human Development, at the University of Minnesota (fall, 2002- Spring, 2004)  President of China Outreach Ministries at University of Minnesota (Twin Cities campus) 2002-2004;  Research fellow with International Educational Exchange Committee of College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota, (2003-2004);  Teaching assistant to Dr. Gerald Fry, University of Minnesota (2002- 2003);  Research Fellow with professor Andrew Cohen in TOEFL testing strategy research: Reading Assessment Project, 2003-2004 (with proceeding published by ETS);  Cross-culture training Program Assistant Coordinator, China Center at University of Minnesota (spring and summer of 2002);  Research Fellow, the National Center of Educational Outcomes (University of Minnesota) in research of language acquisition in China, spring, 2002;  Adjunct faculty, Reedley College, Reedley, California, 2000-2001;  Vice President / Provost of Anqing St. Paul English School, P.R. China, from summer of 1991 to summer of 1998;  Coordinator, for a Chinese local (Anqing, Anhui) government /business delegation to European countries, summer of 1998;  Director and faculty of foreign languages training center, Anqing Teachers College in China 1988-1998  More than fifteen years of teaching culture and linguistics at college level in both China and the United States between 1988 and 2005

Highlights of Related Experiences:

 Providing leadership for International Council for Education Development (ICED), based in Twin Cities, MN (4/2004-present)  Overseeing and coordinating international education programs for Anqing Teachers College (China), (8/2007-present)  Providing advice to the President for International Relations, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN, (9/2006-present)  Coordinating Family Counseling seminar in China (7/2007)  Sponsoring and coordinating international conference on Teacher Education in China (4/2007)  Coordinating Accounting Seminar at Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (2006)  Coordinating and interpreting for Theology training seminar in Anqing, Anhui China (2006)  Designing and directing on-going Principals and Superintendent training (PST) programs for educational administrators in China (2006)  Developing programs and promoting relationships for International Council for Higher Education, (8/2003-3/2004)  Coordinating WTO training programs for Senior leadership delegations from Beijing, Shanxi, and Zhejiang, China (2002)  Coordinating local Chinese government and business trips to European Countries (1998)  Developing training programs for local Chinese business people (1997)

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