尊敬的各位来宾，各位老师及在座的同学们：

      今天能够来到武汉，来到武汉外语学校美加分校宣布我们与美加分校合作关系的正式确立，让我感到非常荣幸。

       美加分校因优美的校园环境、丰富的教学资源及精英的教师团队在社会上赢得了良好的口碑和声誉。

      在普拉特维尔，我们也是精英。所谓精英，就是一个开路者、一个引路人。精英是创新者、开拓者和探路者。

      我们知道美加的学生都做好了充分准备，他们有着较高的道德情操也兼具全面发展的素质。从美加走出来的学生个个都是优秀人才，都有着无以限量的大好前途。

      美加的学生正是我们学校需要的人才，我们欢迎美加学子加入我们美国威斯康星大学普拉特维尔分校这个精英大家庭。

      今天在这里我要宣布：我们学校与美加分校已经签订了合作办学协议，这种合作将会为美加的学生到美国威斯康星大学普拉特维尔分校学习以获取学士学位开启一扇新的大门。

      我们双方将会在这种合作关系下尽力将合作办学办出成果，办得出色，也包括鼓励双方代表互访这一方面。

      这也意味着来自美加分校的学生可以到我们威斯康星大学普拉特维尔分校读书，双方的教职员工也将有机会到对方学校交流学习。

      当你们高中毕业了，我们欢迎你们来我们威斯康星大学普拉特维尔分校继续深造。我们签订的协议也包括为来我校学习的美加学生提供奖学金。

      普拉特维尔分校是整个威斯康星大学系统里面发展最迅速的一所高校。作为一所矿业学校成立于1866年的普拉特维尔分校现今已有商业、工业、生命科学院和农业学院、工程， 数学和理学学院及文理与教育学院 三大学院，42个专业及71个系。

      普拉特维尔分校坐落于距离密西西比河不远处的威斯康星州西南部的、有着12000人口的普拉特维尔市。威斯康星州冬季寒冷，但夏季不会像武汉这么炎热！

      普拉特维尔分校与武汉结缘的历史较长。因为我们学校与位于武汉的中南民族大学已有了14年的合作关系。

      我们与中南民族大学的合作是为赴威斯康星大学普拉特维尔分校学习的学生提供获取英语教育科学硕士学位的学习机会。

      该项目是将英语教育者培训成在武汉乃至全世界的优秀的英语教师。举例为证：毕业于我们普拉特维尔分校的两名学生现在就在美加分校任教。

      我们与中南民族大学的合作也包含一个联合的学者交流项目。该项目将从中南民族大学输送学者赴普拉特维尔孔子学院任教。孔子学院也就成了我们两校之间交流合作的一个纽带。

      今天我们与美加分校的合作协议也将为像你们这样的学生提供去普拉特维尔分校学习以获取学士学位的机会。

      既然该协议已最后达成，有资格的、英语优秀的学生就可以直接申请报读威斯康星大学普拉特维尔分校。

      如果有资格的学生也想在就读美国大学之前提升一下你们的英语能力，你们也可报读我们的英语语言学习项目，这样就可以申请有条件性的录取。

      该项目是帮助母语非英语国的学生更自如地在美国大学环境里使用英语。

      入读该项目的学生一旦完成该项目即可进入普拉特维尔分校大学课程学习以获取学士学位。

      对于那些有兴趣报读该项目的学生我们也会给予经济资助。

      美加的学生在第一学期可以获得2500美元的国际学生奖学金，还有2500美元的第一学年学士学位课程康格奖学金。

      这两种奖学金属全程奖学金，你若一直在普拉特维尔分校学习，这种经济资助会持续本科学习的四年之久。

      因为我校与中南民族大学的合作了14年，现在已经有200多威斯康星大学普拉特维尔分校校友、英语教育科学硕士项目毕业生，他们居住在武汉，是武汉的精英。

      我也想鼓励你们借着我们两校合作的好时机，加入威斯康星大学普拉特维尔分校女校友会。

      非常感谢你们的到来，谢谢你们给我站在这里的机会，让我来宣布这个崭新而又令人振奋的项目的确立。   

      我们很期待、也坚信与美加分校的合作是强强联合。

      在此，以“每一天都是我们成为精英的重要日子！”与大家共勉！

      谢谢 ！ 

Honored Guests, Faculty and students,

I am honored to be here in Wuhan today and to have the opportunity to address you here at the Wuhan Foreign Language School Meiga Academy to announce a new partnership between the University of Wisconsin Platteville and the Meiga Academy.

The Meiga Academy “enjoys an excellent reputation for its beautiful campus, extraordinary resources and committed and experienced faculty.”  

At Platteville, we are pioneers. Pioneer is a person who takes the lead, who paves the way for others. Pioneers are innovators, trailblazers and pathfinders.  

We know that graduates of Meiga are well prepared, of high moral character and have well rounded backgrounds. Meiga graduates are extremely able and have bright futures.

Graduates from Meiga Academy are the kind of students we wish to have at our institution, to join the pioneer family at the University of Wisconsin Platteville.

Today I am here to announce that the University has signed an agreement with the Meiga Academy that creates the opportunity for graduates from Meiga to attend the UW-Platteville to earn their bachelors degree.

Under this partnership, both the Meiga Academy and UW-Platteville seek to make this cooperation successful and fruitful, including encouraging communication and visits by representatives from both parties.

This means that students from Meiga Academy can attend UW-Platteville and faculty and administrators from both schools will be encouraged to visit one another.

When you graduate, we invite you to come and study at the UW-Platteville. This agreement includes scholarship support for students who make the decision to come to UW-Platteville.

UW-Platteville is the fastest growing university in the University of Wisconsin system. Founded in 1866 as a mining school UW-Platteville now offers 42 majors and 71minors in three colleges, Business, Industry, Life Science Agriculture (BLSA), Engineering, Mathematics and Science (EMS) and Liberal Arts and Education (LAE).

The university is located in the city of Platteville, a town of 12,000 in southwestern Wisconsin not far from the Mississippi river. It gets cold in Wisconsin, but the summers are not as hot as Wuhan’s!

UW-Platteville has a long history of strong connections to Wuhan. For 14years, the University has collaborated with South Central University For Nationalities (SCUN).

Together the two schools offer a program where students from SCUN can attend the University of Wisconsin Platteville to earn a Masters of Science in English Education.

The program trains English language educators to be successful teachers of English in Wuhan and around the world. Two of our graduates teach here at the Wuhan Meiga Academy.

We also have a joint visiting scholars program which sends scholars from Wuhan to teach at the Confucius Institute at Platteville. The Institute is run as a collaboration between SCUN and UW-Platteville.

Today’s agreement with the Wuhan Meiga Academy will allow graduates like you to attend the UW-Platteville to earn your bachelors degree.

Now that this agreement has been finalized, qualified students who are proficient in English may apply directly to the UW of Wisconsin Platteville for Admission to the college.

Qualified students who wish to develop their English skills before attending college in the United States may apply for conditional admission if they enroll in our new English Language program.

The program teaches foreign language speakers to use English effectively in the College environment.

Once students successfully complete the English language program they are then accepted to the UW-Platteville undergraduate program to earn a bachelors degree.

There is financial assistance for those interested in participating in this program.

Graduates of the Wuhan Meiga Academy graduates are eligible for a $2500 International Student Scholarship for their first semester and $2500 Conger Scholarship for their first year of undergraduate degree coursework.

Both of these scholarships are renewable for up to four years to provide support during your studying at the UW-Platteville.

Because of the joint programs in operation with SCUN for the last 14 years, more than 200 UW-Platteville alumni, graduates of the MSEE program who are now pioneers, live in Wuhan.

I want to encourage you to join that group of UW-Platteville alumnae by taking advantage of this important agreement between the Meiga Academy and the UW-Platteville.

Thank you to the Meiga Academy for entering this partnership with us and thank you for having me here today to announce this new and exciting program.

We look forward to a strong and prosperous partnership with the Meiga Academy.

And remember, Everyday is a great day to be a Pioneer.

Thank you.