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| The Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies (EAPS), when functioning to capacity, should be the steward of Asia vitality and excellence on our campus – in teaching, research, programming and service. If EAPS is succeeding, all Asianists on campus should have the sense that ours is a campus at which Asia is infused across every unit and campus effort; faculty, graduate students and undergraduates with Asia interests should feel very proud to be and stay here and should want to tell the world about our campus vitality in this area. If our house is in order, all campus departments should feel empowered to recruit Asianist faculty and graduate students by referring to the roster of EAPS coordinated activity and campus-wide strength as a unique and nationally competitive treasure. Finally, this vitality should extend to the community and region through meaningful outreach and by creating a broad constituency. EAPS must thus promote, support, coordinate, and communicate this Asia excellence and vitality. | ||
| EAPS should promote vitality and excellence both through its programming and through efforts to create research and teaching synergy (by bringing people together in a broad range of activities). EAPS should support this vitality by bringing funds to campus that support creative and synergistic activity of faculty, students, and units. EAPS should coordinate vitality on Asia by also serving as a clearinghouse for Asia-related activity on campus (e.g., study abroad programs, faculty travel, programming), including activity that is not organized or supported by EAPS (EAPS should make certain that these activities are coming to the attention of the campus at large, and when meaningful EAPS should get involved so as to extend the reach of these efforts). EAPS should communicate this vitality to the Asianist world at large and to the local and regional community through high-quality on-line and print materials. | ||
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The Center for East Asian and
Pacific Studies at University of Illinois 230 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street Champaign IL 61820 phone: 217.333.7273 fax: 217.244.5729 eaps@uiuc.edu |
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