By: Lauren Albrecht
Through partnership with J C Business Group, a consulting firm in Nashville that works with Chinese and western companies, students from Wuhan Donghu University in China will attend Milligan for graduate degrees in business, counseling or education.
“There could be 20 to 30 students as soon as this fall,” said Lee Fierbaugh, Milligan’s vice president for enrollment management and marketing. “They are in the process of starting recruitment over there.”
Over the past four to five months, Fierbaugh and Li Weaver, president of J C Business Group, have worked together to iron out the details of this partnership, which includes standardized language criteria and available student services.
“Milligan is one of the first of several universities we are working with,” said Weaver. “I knew they would have a great experience there with the staff and students, and the whole environment would be welcoming to the Chinese students.”
Wuhan Donghu University does not offer graduate degrees, so this pairing enables the international students to obtain U.S. degrees, as well as expand Milligan’s graduate programs.
“We have been trying very hard to grow our graduate programs,” said Garland Young, vice president for academic affairs. “And this is a new pool of students who could be right for Milligan, but who we haven’t had access to until we made contact with Weaver and her organization.”
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