The conference will explore the educational relationship of Anglican/Christian values and tradition, with the cultural/academic expectations of a university. It will highlight those challenges in the context of higher education in the Far East and the Pacific Rim. It will look at opportunities in education, technology, diplomatic and church service that have become possible there for new global relationships in higher education.

The Conference will begin with an overnight trip to the Chinese mainland to Sun Yat-sen University (originally known as Zhongshan University) in Guangzhou. The Conference will feature addresses and workshops in the regular areas of interest – chaplaincies, service learning, student and faculty exchanges – but also will explore the mission of a Christian university set in Asia.

There will be presentations from CUAC’s Pacific Chapter members-Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, the Philippines and Japan--on the history and cultural encounter of Christianity within Asian societies and cultures.

There will likely be smaller post-Conference trips available to further destinations of interest – Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and the Philippines –arranged by those colleges and universities.