{{Infobox_University

|name = Missouri State University Branch Campus Dalian

|type = Complimentary Chinese and Western management sharing

|established = [[June]], [[2000]]

|city = [[Dalian]]

|state = [[Liaoning]]

|country = [[Peoples Republic of China]]

|enrollment = 720 <ref>Mooney 2008</ref>

|tuition = $3,500 <ref> Mooney 2008</ref>

|staff = undisclosed

|nickname = [[Image:Missouri State bear logo.svg|left|30px| ]] [[Missouri State Bears|Bears]]

|colors = [[Maroon (color)|Maroon]] and [[White]]

|website= [http://chinacampus.missouristate.edu chinacampus.missouristate.edu]

}}

Missouri State University Branch Campus Dalian is a dual management private school with western director<ref>Quang and Wolff 2008</ref>.

== History ==

In June 2000

<ref>Wittkorn 2007</ref>, [[Missouri State University]] entered into an agreement with [[Liaoning Normal University]] of the [[People's Republic of China]].

This established the Missouri State Branch Campus (LNU-MSU College of International Business) on the campus of LNU.

== Accreditation ==

The Branch Campus programs are fully accredited by the [[Higher Learning Commission]] of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.

MSU Branch Campus students have an equivalent degree as MSU students graduating from any other campus.

The [[American Council on Education]]

<ref>Woolford-Singh 2007</ref>

has reviewed MSU Branch Campus Dalian.

[[Ann Woolford-Singh]] reported that MSU was very generous

<ref>The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education 2007</ref>:

<blockquote>

University officials welcomed

us warmly, eager to show

us Chinese hospitality at its best...Later, President [[Qu]] and his

leadership team hosted the Fellows for a traditional Chinese dinner.

The last stop on our trip was [[Beijing]].

The [[American Council on Education | ACE]] Fellows saw

many of the important cultural sites in that city, including the [[Great Wall]], [[Tiananmen Square]], the [[Summer Palace]], and the [[Imperial Palace]], and we attended a Chinese acrobat show. Missouri State’s

[[James Baker (MSU) | Baker]] also provided an overview and history of the development

of various

types of partnerships with institutions in [[China]].

</blockquote>

A similar fact finding mission <ref>Shelton 2005</ref> reported that

<blockquote>

When we arrived in [[Dalian]] we saw a familiar sight, an [[Misouri State University | SMSU]] baseball cap believe it or not. Our driver, [[Houhui Wu]] was wearing this baseball cap and he took us from the airport to our hotel....

We actually did not get to spend very much time on the campus...

we spent the afternoon visiting some local tailors.

The men who are here in [[Dalian]] from the [[Springfield]] delegation, several of them had suits custom made and the women had jackets and dresses custom made.

Those will get picked up tomorrow so that they can go back to the States with the folks.

Incidentally, those custom made items are greatly discounted from what you would expect a custom suit to cost in the States so that was really sort of a fun opportunity for the delegates to interact with the local people and also to get some nice clothes.

After the stop at the tailor's the delegation went to a dinner.

</blockquote>

Karen Solomon, associate director of the [[Higher Learning Commission]] acknowledges that no one from the commission has ever visited Missouri State University Branch Campus Dalian.

Instead accreditation is based on self reports by [[Missouri State University]] administrators and a review by the [[Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business]] (AACSB International). AACSB denies they have made such a review.

<ref>Mooney 2008</ref>

Jerry E. Trapnell, executive vice president and chief accreditation officer for AACSB International has commented on issues that would be raised in a hypothetical review of Missouri State University Branch Campus Dalian:

<UL>

<LI> academic quality,

<LI> admissions,

<LI> program review,

<LI> student qualifications, and

<LI> faculty qualifications.

</UL>

<blockquote>

"That would be a concern," he [Trapnell] says when told of the lower qualifications of the instructors in Dalian, "because one of the things we worry about is that the school is expected to deploy qualified faculty."

</blockquote>

<ref> Mooney 2008 </ref>

== Academics ==

=== Students ===

==== Chinese Students ====

Missouri State University Branch Campus Dalian has a diverse student body.

Many critics <ref>Ansari 2008</ref> believe that schools like Missouri State University Branch Campus Dalian

<blockquote>

unceremoniously impose themselves upon the local education scene.

This imperialist approach seems to be antithetical to the academic values of liberal American institutions.

An affiliated campus would provide competition to local universities, limiting and hindering the development of domestic programs, as highly qualified students opt out of domestic programs in favor of a "superior" American degree.

</blockquote>

In fact, this program <ref>Woolford-Singh 2007</ref> particularly

appeals to those students

who failed to make the requisite

score in the

[[Education_in_the_Peoples_Republic_of_China |National Entrance

Exam]].

So in contrast to Ansari's hypothesis, Missouri State University Branch Campus Dalian students are less qualified than students in domestic Chinese programs.

By culling weak students, Missouri State University Branch Campus Dalian promotes the development of domestic programs.

Approximately half the students can not function in a university environment <ref>Mooney 2008</ref>

====International Students ====

In addition to Chinese students, there are students from all over [[Asia]], especially [[Korea]] <ref>Kirk 1999</ref>, <ref>Lee 2008</ref> currently attending the Branch Campus.

=== Cheating ===

In order to accomodate less qualified students

teachers make their courses less rigorous and students cheat.

One student who admitted cheating said

<blockquote>

I've got a 3.3 GPA, but I've learned nothing.

</blockquote> <ref> Mooney 2008</ref>

Instructors have confirmed that cheating is a "major problem."

[[Stephen H. Robinette]] (director of academic outreach for the [[College of Continuing Education and the Extended University]]) acknowledges that cheating takes places but maintains that it is no worse than at the main campus in [[Springfield, Missouri]].

<ref> Mooney 2008 </ref>

=== Faculty ===

==== Turnover ====

In 2007, a typical year, the turnover rate among faculty was well over 50%.

It is difficult to recruit teachers willing to relocate to China.

A typical instructor at Missouri State University Branch Campus Dalian earns approximately $13,680USD.

In contrast, a typical instructor at the [[University of Nottingham campus in Ningbo]] earns about $40,000USD. <ref>Mooney 2008</ref>.

Past and present teachers at Missouri State University - Branch Campus Dalian include:

==== Finance ====

<UL>

<LI> [[Walt Nelson]], [[PhD]]

</UL>

==== Law ====

<UL>

<LI> [[Robert Calvert]], [[JD]]

<LI> [[Jack Garrett]], [[JD]]

<LI> [[Martin Wolff]], [[JD]]

</UL>

== Facilities ==

Missouri State University Branch Campus Dalian is located in a building on top of a small hill on the campus of [[Liaoning Normal University]].

Most computer are broken.

Desks and chairs are wobbly.

Classrooms are neither heated nor air conditioned.

Students wear winter clothing inside for most of the year.

<ref> Mooney 2008</ref>

==Notes==

{{reflist|3}}

==References==

<div class="references-small">

* {{

cite news

| author = Ansari, Emad

| year = 2008

| title = Exporting education

| url = http://media.www.michigandaily.com/media/storage/paper851/news/2008/02/22/Viewpoints/Exporting.Education-3228505.shtml

| publisher = The Michigan Daily

}}

* {{

cite email

| author = Dong Guangcai

| year = 2007

| title = One year probation for King

| url = http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Missouri_State_University_Dong_Guangcai_email_over_threatened_student_violence

}}

* {{

cite news

|author = Kirk, Don

|year = 1999

|title = Some Good Men Are Dodging Draft in South Korea

|url = http://www.iht.com/articles/1999/05/14/dmz.2.t.php

|publisher = International Herald Tribune

}}

* {{

cite news

|author = Lee, Brian

|year = 2008

|title = Draft Dodgers have no Appetite for Fight

|url = http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2886408

|publisher = JoonAng Daily

}}

* {{

cite web

|author = LNU-MSU

|year = 2006

|title = About the University

|url = http://chinacampus.missouristate.edu/assets/brochure060610.pdf

}}

* {{

cite journal

| author = Paul Mooney

| year = 2008

| title = An American College in China Struggles to Deliver: Language barriers and faculty turnover are major challenges

| url = http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i34/34a00101.htm

| format = html

| journal = The Chronicle of Higher Education

| volume = 54

| issue = 34

| page = A1

}}

* {{

cite journal

| year = 1997

|title = Fair play? Controversy over incentive compensation surrounds overseas study industry

|url = http://www.obhe.ac.uk/news/2007.html

|format = html

|journal = The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education

|issue = 128

}}

* {{cite journal

|author = Quang, Niu and Wolff, Martin,

|date = 2003

|title = China ESL: An Industry Run Amuck?

|url = http://teachers.net/gazette/APR03/qiangwolff.html

|format = html

|journal = Teachers.Net Gazette

|volume = 4

|issue = 4

}}

* {{

cite web

| author = Shelton, Missy

| year = 2005

| title = April 21st, 2005 Report from China: In Dalian

| url = http://ksmuonline.missouristate.edu/news.php?text=1036

}}

* {{

cite web

|author = Wittkorn, Philip

|year = 2007

|title = Missouri State Branch Campus - Missouri State University

|url = http://chinacampus.missouristate.edu/about.htm

}}

* {{cite journal

|author = Woolford-Singh,

|date = 2007

|title = The Fellows' Memorable Visit to China

|url = http://www.acenet.edu/Content/NavigationMenu/ProgramsServices/FellowsProgram/AlumniaeActivities/FellowsFallNewsletter07.pdfhttp://www.george-eby-research.com/html/wide-mag-deficiency-path.pdf

|format = PDF

|journal = Newsletter for the Council of Fellows

|volume = 29

|issue = 2

|pages = 14-17

}}

</div>