Chinese Education Finance and Policy Association (CEFPA) aims at facilitating scholarly exchange and supporting career development among Chinese scholars who have an interest in education finance and policy, as well as scholars interested in the Chinese education system. Current board members of CEFPA include Xu Di, Li Feng, Wei Li, Jing Liu, Xiaotao Ran, Xiaoyang Ye, and myself.
CEFPA organizes seminars and professional workshops regularly. This semester, we have monthly seminars scheduled on Fridays.
Fall 2021 Seminar Series
9/24 8pm EST Wei Ha and Wenjie Zhang, Peking University
10/29 6pm EST Shouping Hu, Florida State University
11/19 3pm EST Liang Zhang, New York University
12/17 8pm EST Haogen Yao, UNICEF
Spring 2021 Seminar Series
2/26 3pm EST Pengju Zhang, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University
3/26 3pm EST Ruixue Jia, Associate Professor, UC San Diego
4/23 8pm EST Lei Zhang, Professor, Shanghai Jiaotong University
5/28 3pm EST Alex Eble, Assistant Professor, Columbia University
6/25 3pm EST Xu Di, Associate Professor, UC Irvine
Spring 2021 Panel Event
5/7 9pm EST Weifang Min, Professor, Rong Wang, Professor, and Liping Ma, Associate Professor, Peking University
Fall 2020 Seminar and Professional Development Series
9/4 1pm EST Professional Development: NAEd/Spencer Fellowship Workshop
Peng Yin, PhD Candidate, UC Berkley
Qiao Wen, Instructor, Columbia University
Zuchao Shen, Postdoc, University of Florida
9/18 1pm EST Seminars
Bixi Zhang, PhD Candidate, Michigan State University
Jinqing Liu, PhD Candidate, Indiana University
10/2 10am EST Professional Development: Job Market in China (Hiring Side Perspective)
Shuang Ye, Professor, East China Normal University
Hongbin Wu, Associate Professor, Peking University
10/16 10am EST Seminars
Qiuxiang Wu, PhD Candidate, Renmin University of China
Wei Lu, Lecturer, Hangzhou Normal University
10/30 10am EST Professional Development: Job Market in China (Candidate Perspective)
Xiaoqing Wang, Assistant Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Chuanyi Guo, PhD Candidate, University of Illinois at Chicago
11/13 10am EST Seminar
Rui Wang, PhD Candidate, American University
12/4 1pm EST Seminar
Jiayao Wu, PhD Candidate, University of Florida
Summer 2020 Seminar and Professional Development Series
4/17 4pm EST Professional Development: Landscape of tenure track positions
Li Feng, Associate Professor, Texas State University
Wei Li, Assistant Professor, University of Alabama
Yang Song, Assistant Professor, Colgate University
5/1 4pm EST Seminars
Zibin Huang, PhD Candidate, University of Rochester
Rui Wang, PhD student, American University
5/15 4pm EST Professional Development: Successful Job Market Candidates
Jing Liu, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland College Park
Xiaotao Ran, Assistant Professor, University of Delaware
Xiaoyang Ye, Post doc, Brown University
5/29 4pm EST Seminars
Jian Zou, PhD Candidate, University of Illinois UC
Mingyu Chen, Post doc, Princeton University
6/12 4pm EST Professional Development: Career paths at research organizations
Bo Zhu, Senior Researcher, American Institutes for Research (AIR)
Rui Yang, Senior Researcher, AIR
Yuan Zhang, Researcher, AIR
6/26 4pm EST Seminars
Jiayao Wu, PhD Candidate, University of Florida
Qiong Zhu, Post doc, Michigan State
7/9 11am EST Professional Development: Making the most out of academic conferences
Yongmei Ni, Professor, University of Utah,
Yingying Wang, Associate Professor, Georgia State
Jiangang Xia, Associate Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
7/23 11am EST Seminars
Hao Xue, Post doc, Stanford University
Sanfeng Miao, PhD Student, Michigan State University
8/6 11am EST Professional Development: Career paths in think tanks
Michael Hansen, Director and Senior Fellow, Brookings Institute
8/20 11am EST Seminars
Qi Zheng, PhD Student, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Gaoxia Zhu, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto