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<p>Good Afternoon:</p>
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<p>Please let me know if anything else needs to go on the agenda. I look forward to seeing you all on Friday.</p>
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<p class="Normal1" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="normalchar1"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Asia Council Agenda</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Normal1" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="normalchar1"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Friday, January 29, 2016, 1:00 – 2:00<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="Normal1" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#423D3D;
background:#F8F8F8">Professional Sciences Center, Room 237</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="Normal1" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="normalchar1"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Middle Georgia University</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Normal1" align="center" style="text-align:center"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span class="list0020paragraphchar1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Call to Order & Introductions</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span class="list0020paragraphchar1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Approval of Minutes from September 2015 meeting<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span class="list0020paragraphchar1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Committees (Asian Studies Certificate; Study Abroad; Faculty Development Seminar)</span></span><span class="list0020paragraphchar1"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="list0020paragraphchar1">a.<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span class="list0020paragraphchar1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Progress report on Asian Studies Certificate at various campuses</span></span><span class="list0020paragraphchar1"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span class="list0020paragraphchar1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Report of Study Abroad Programs (Wilson Huang,
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12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Louis Meng, Baogang Guo, David Starling,)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"">Study Abroad Programs for summer 2017 (<span class="list0020paragraphchar1">new programs?</span>)</span><span class="list0020paragraphchar1"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">d.<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span class="list0020paragraphchar1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“Teaching East Asia: The Korean Peninsula” A Faculty Development Workshop (Eric Kendrick, </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">David
Starling)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span class="list0020paragraphchar1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Financial Update (Salli)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span class="list0020paragraphchar1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Asia Council Website (David Starling)</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span class="list0020paragraphchar1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">SCIE (System Council for International Education) Updates (David Starling)</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span class="list0020paragraphchar1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Liaisons to SCIE Committees (Study Abroad; International Students & Scholars; Faculty & Curriculum)</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span class="list0020paragraphchar1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Asian Events
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span class="list0020paragraphchar1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Other Items & Miscellaneous Announcements</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span class="list0020paragraphchar1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Adjourn</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Normal1" style="margin-top:24.0pt"><span class="normalchar1"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">CONTACT INFO</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span class="normalchar1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> David Starling, Chair,
</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Valdosta State University, dstarlin@valdosta.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Normal1" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> Salli Vargis, Vice Chair,
<span class="normalchar1"> Georgia Perimeter College</span>, <span class="hyperlinkchar1">
salli.vargis@gpc.edu</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">, Secretary, Georgia
College and State University, </span></span>flor.culpabondal@gcsu.edu<o:p></o:p></p>
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