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Article: GOV. PATERSON ANNOUNCES SUNY TO HOST CHINESE UNDERGRADUATES FROM EARTHQUAKE-DAMAGED AREA IN SICHUAN PROVINCE, CHINA
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- July 31, 2008
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Gov. David Paterson, D-N.Y., issued the following press release:
Governor David A. Paterson today announced that 22 campuses of the State University of New York?s (SUNY) 64-campus system are opening their doors for the next year to 150 Chinese undergraduate students from the Sichuan Province of western China, site of a massive earthquake in May. The majority of these students come from 40 counties around Wenchuan, the center of the quake.
The students, primarily sophomores and juniors, will have the ability to continue their college studies by spending the next two semesters as full-time students at SUNY state-operated and community college campuses this fall. The goal is to build a team of ...