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China Teachers Program

 Organization

Dates

  • Existence: 1989-

Administrative History

The China Teachers Program (CTP) (1989-) is a nonprofit outreach program of the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies at Brigham Young University. The purpose of the program is to supply Chinese universities with teachers from the U.S.

Since the its founding in 1989, the program has provided many Chinese universities with 1,500 educators. The goal of the program is to build cultural and eduational ties between BYU, the Kennedy Center, and Chinese universities as well as provide students and teachers alike with exposure to Chinese and American culture.

Citation:
Ray C. Hillam interview, 2000 Feb. 23, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah: p. 1 (first teachers sent in 1989)

BYU 2000-2001 telephone directory: p. 33 ("China Teachers Program") p. 37 (program operated under auspices of David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies at BYU)

BYU Kennedy Center via WWW, May 4, 2020 (CTP; creted in 1989; nonprofit outreach program; part of the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies at Brigham Young University; purpose of the program is to supply Chinese universities with teachers from the U.S.; provided Chinese universities with 1,500 educators; goal of program to build cultural and education ties between universites and expose students and teachers alike with exposure to Chines and American culture)

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Oral history interview with Ray C. Hillam

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA OH 181
Scope and Contents Briefly comments on China Teachers Program which sent couples to China to teach English beginning in 1989; International Relations Program, subsequently known as David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies; and Washington Seminar, which sent students to study in Washington D.C. Also mentions his experience as a Fulbright professor in Vietnam during Vietnam War, and on the "spy scandal" at BYU in the late 1960s. Interviewed by Carol Ottesen, historian of BYU Emeritus Alumnus...
Dates: 2000
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections. University Archives / Oral history interview with Ray C. Hillam

Waking the sleeping giant : a history of the China Teachers Program, Brigham Young University David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197225527198]
Identifier: MSS 3167
Scope and Contents

Self-published history of the China Teachers Program. It examines the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the country of China leading up to the establishment of the China Teachers Program. It also discusses the establishment of the China Teachers Program through the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies and its operation through 2002.

Dates: 1900-2002
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections. University Archives / Waking the sleeping giant : a history of the China Teachers Program, Brigham Young University David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies

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