During Oct. 29 to Nov. 2, 2011, captained by Mr. Guangju Chen, vice president of Beijing Normal University and president of BNUZ, twelve BNUZ delegates had an official visit to partner universities in Canada. Delegation members include: Prof. Ailan Fu, vice president of BNUZ, Prof. Wanglu Peng, dean of School of Information Technology, Prof. Baosheng An, dean of School of Engineering Technology, Prof. Mingyuan Zhang, dean of School of Chinese, Prof. Wenhao Tao, dean of School of Foreign Languages, Prof. Huiying Zhang, dean of School of Logistics, Prof. Honghai Mi, dean of School of Applied Mathematics, Prof. Jiagui Wang, dean of School of Management, Prof. Yuping Lan, assistant to dean of International Business Faculty, Dr. Pansy Gan, director of Office of International Affairs and Malcolm Cheng.

BNUZ delegation visited three partner universities in Canada, namely Saint Mary’s University (SMU), Acadia University (AU), and University of Waterloo (UW).

During the visit to Saint Mary’s University, delegates had in-depth meetings with Prof. Colin Dodds, president of Saint Mary’s University. Both sides are pleased about the long-term and stable partnership, and reached agreement in expanding cooperation fields, including teaching staff exchange and student exchange, jointly development of Master program, summer school program etc. Apart from that, BNUZ delegates also held panel talks with related colleges at SMU, discussing further details and seeking more cooperation possibilities. Both parties signed an agreement of allowing student exchanges between BNUZ and SMU, according to which both universities will send two students to do the student exchange program separately since Sep 2012.