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Three CommunicationsFaculty/Staff to Deliver Paper in BeijingMissouri Southern News Bureau FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 19, 2001 Contact: Dr. Chad Stebbins (417) 625-9736 E-Mail: News Bureau Voice: (417) 625.9399 FAX: (417) 625.3142 |
JOPLIN, M0 (SNS) - At the invitation of the Beijing
Broadcasting Institute, Beijing, China, three faculty and staff members
at Missouri Southern State College are traveling to Beijing to present a
paper at a conference on Internet Communication, to be held April 29-30.
Dr. Chad Stebbins, Director of the Institute of International
Studies at the College, will be attending the conference along with Ward
Bryant, assistant professor of communications, and Stephanie Davis Goad,
project coordinator for the Missouri Multicultural Network Web site, a
project of the Institute of International Studies.
Stebbins says each group invited to the conference was asked to
present a paper with a theme based on Internet communication. "We
decided to present a paper on the Missouri Multicultural Network because
it is positively indicative of how we are using Internet communication
here at the college," he says. "Our Web site uses the Internet
to reach across the language barrier to link immigrants and service
providers to a wealth of information and resources all in one place."
The paper, which will be published by the Beijing Broadcasting
Institute along with the papers of the other more than 100 international
scholars, was to include a title page with keywords in English, an
index, abstract and bibliography.
Goad, who develops and promotes the Missouri Multicultural
Network Web site, adds that the Web site, available in English and
Spanish, helps to further the college's international mission by
offering a bilingual information venue and assisting immigrants
preparing to become U.S. citizens.
"We offer a free, online citizenship-preparation course,
which may be taken at any time, at any pace, she says. "We foresee
adding other languages in the near future." The Beijing
Broadcasting Institute, which invited about 100 international scholars,
experts, educators, industry entrepreneurs and Chinese government
officials to the forum, was founded in 1954.
The institute has now developed into a comprehensive institute
of higher learning with journalism, art, engineering, foreign languages,
and administration as its major academic disciplines. Stebbins says the
Beijing Broadcasting Institute offered to provide accommodations, meals
and sightseeing for the group while in China. Before departing Beijing,
the group will invite representative from the BBI to visit Missouri
Southern.
For more information about the Missouri Multicultural Network
call 417-626-7960 or log on to www.mssc.edu/missouri.
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