Hong Gang Jin, the William R. Kenan Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, gave a keynote speech at the Associated Colleges of the South (ACS) Second Faculty Conference on Chinese Studies on Oct. 16 at Spelman College. Her talk was titled " A New Chinese Studies Model in a Changing World: The Hamilton and ACC Experience."

ACS is a consortium of 16 distinguished liberal arts colleges and universities. The purpose of the conference was to help professors of Chinese studies to brainstorm the best strategies to build a solid Chinese program, share best practices in curriculum, instruction, and assessment, and learn new technologies in Chinese language and culture teaching.