On February 21, Sunrise International COO David Weeks co-presented the session “Frameworks for Restarting and Reinvigorating US-China Education Exchanges” at the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA) Annual Conference in Washington, DC. The session was co-presented with Madame Xuesong Shen, the Minister Counselor of Education of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the USA, and Dr. Julie Whitlow, Vice Provost for Faculty and Global Engagement at Salem State University. This piece summarizes the highlights of the session.

In advance of the release of Sunrise’s Trends in Chinese International Education 2024 White Paper, Sunrise International hosted a webinar on Nov. 30 that previewed our white paper findings. The webinar titled The 6 Key Trends in China that will Shape Recruitment in 2024 was hosted in collaboration with our partners at China Higher Education (CHE). A short recap is below, but we encourage you to view the full webinar for even more graphics and analysis of 18 unique datasets.

The past week has brought two welcome developments for US-China education exchanges. Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping met on November 15th for what Biden described as “some of the most constructive and productive discussions we’ve had” and including a commitment to increasing non-governmental exchanges. In the runup to the meeting, Chinese state media struck a more conciliatory tone toward the US. Meanwhile, IIE released the 2023 Open Doors Report that showed that Chinese enrollments in US universities held steady for the 2022-2023 academic year. These signals of stability come as welcome news among US international admissions offices seeking to chart a recovery of student enrollments from China. All of this and more will be covered in Sunrise’s upcoming webinar “The 6 Key Trends in China that will Shape Recruitment in 2024”.