March 17, 2015
The Eisenhower Fellowships, an organization whose headquarters are in Philadelphia, will be partnering with the China Education Association for International Exchange to send young American leaders across the Pacific.
In a press release on Tuesday, Retired United States General and former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who serves as Chairman of the Eisenhower Fellowships, announced the partnership, dubbed the Zhi-Xing China Eisenhower Fellowships:
“The opportunity for more American young leaders to travel to China under this new program will enhance the potential for international understanding and collaboration.”
What the program will do is select eight distinguished mid-career "Fellows" from the United States to study and experience China in Fall 2015. Mid-career, as defined by the program, includes Americans aged 32 to 45.
The program will last four weeks, and will send the attendees to six Chinese cities to experience "intensive cultural immersion, group sessions with Chinese and U.S. experts and two weeks of individually-tailored travel and meetings."
The Eisenhower Fellowships, founded in 1953 to celebrate U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's first birthday in the Oval Office, is currently located on South 16th St. in Center City. According to the fellowship's website:
Our central operational responsibility is to find people who can envisage, as Dwight Eisenhower did, a more prosperous, just and peaceful world, and have the passion to pursue specific activities with real impact to achieve those goals.
The group not only provides programs for American "Fellows" to study abroad, but also accepts young leaders from around the world to work on innovation projects here in the United States.
