CEFPA Seminar Series

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