Professor Stephen Young Visits Salem State GIS Graduate Students in Shanghai

This past spring, professor Stephen Young was in Shanghai, China for a few weeks for research and to present some lectures. He was working in the Geography Department at Shanghai Normal University, our sister department in China.  While he was there he had dinner with many of our Chinese GIS graduates and some of our incoming students from Shanghai.

For the last six years, Salem State University and Shanghai Normal University have operated a dual master's degree program in Geo-Information Science (GIS), allowing students to receive master's degrees from both institutions through an articulation agreement. Graduate students from Shanghai Normal complete one year of graduate study in Shanghai, come to  Salem to complete GIS courses here for one year in the Geo-Information Science program and then return to Shanghai to complete a thesis. When they have completed the requirements of both programs, a representative from Salem State travels to Shanghai to attend their commencement ceremony and award the students one of their two master's degrees.

Soon after Professor Young left Shanghai, Salem State President John Keenan and history professor Li Li arrived to visit with students and Shanghai Normal faculty and administrators.