465 | This sunday I met Prof. Dr. Cathy Hsu from Hongkong, Sjoerd Gehrels as the project manager of Stenden Rangsit University Bangkok, and two students of Stenden University of Applied Sciences in Leeuwarden.

Cathy is a member of the Advisory Board of our Stenden Rangsit University in Thailand. She joined the School of Hotel and Tourism Management of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in July 2001. Previously, she was a professor at Kansas State University. Earlier this sunday she conferred with Klaas Wybo van der Hoek, Executive Board Stenden Hogeschool, and Dr. Marc Antonius Jacobs, Dean of the Stenden International Hospitality Management School of Higher Education, Leeuwarden.

Sjoerd and I discussed with our guest the two types of Ph.D-programs at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where Cathy is working as Associate Director of Academic Affairs.

Master student of International Service Management, Mandy Wen, who took care for Prof. Dr. Hsu during her visit in the Netherlands, got valuable informations about the education system in Hong Kong; Bachelor student of Tourism Management, Stefanie Henneberg, informed about the further developments of our Stenden Rangsit University in Thailand, because she was there for 5 months following the Grand Tour® of Stenden and she would like to assist our fast growing university there in the future.

It was a nice, inspiring and intercultural meeting!

From left to right: Sjoerd Gehrels (Stenden Leeuwarden / Stenden Rangsit University Bangkok); Prof. Dr. Cathy Hsu (Associate Director of Academic Affairs, Hong Kong Polytechnic University); Prof. Dr. Martin Gertler (Director of Academic Affairs, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden); Stefanie Henneberg (Bachelor student Tourism Management, Leeuwarden); Mandy Wen (Master student International Service Management, Leeuwarden).