08/21 President Yang and Dean Chu took the direct flight from Taiwan to New York City (NYC) around 7:05 and the duration of the flight was 15 hours.
     08/22 The delegation invited local media and press of NYC at 11:00 in the morning. President Yang and the Deputy Hwang of MOE accepted the invitation of Chinese TV station in Greater NYC and presented NTCU to oversea Chinese people in the Greater NYC.
 

     Starting from the right: The President of NTCU (Dr. Yang), the President of Tamkang University (Dr. Chang), the Deputy of MOE (Dr. Hwang), the President of MinChung University (Dr. Lee), and the Dean of International Affairs (Dr. Chu) of NTCU.
     08/23 President Yang and Dean Chu re-visited NYIT and met with President Dr. Edward Guliano. President Yang elaborated on the scope of dual degree program between two universities encompassing other departments like Foreign Language Dept., Fine Art Dept., Special Education Dept., Allied Psychological Counselling Dept., Math Dept., and EMBA. In the meanwhile, President Yang also met with the NTCU student trying to understand her learning situation. Basically, the President of NYIT approves that there will be two exchange students quota for NTCU student to NYIT yearly.

     08/24~08/25 2013 Taiwan Education Fair US in the Greater NYC.
     08/27 President Yang met the President of Brigham Young University (BYU)–Idaho (President Dr. Kim B. Clark) and the vice President (Dr. Edwin A. Sexton), the two parties had a pleasant meeting and came up with the initial verbal agreement that BYU-Idaho is willing to provide two exchange students quota for NTCU students yearly. Dr. Kim B. Clark was the former Dean of Harvard Business School. BYU is the third largest private university in the USA. No coffee or beverages are sold in the university. 98% of the students came from Utah State. The vice President of BYU-Idaho plans to visit NTCU in the coming November in return.

     08/28 The NTCU delegation met with the representative from the Office of International Affairs conducting the associate discussions regarding the new launch of student exchange between two universities. The auditorium can accommodate 15,000 people, which is spectacular and impressive.

     08/29 President Yang and Dean Chu start returning to NTCU via Idaho Falls City.
     08/31The returning airplane touched down at Taiwan 5:30 in the morning.
Conclusion:
     President Yang joined the 2013 Education Fairs at Great NYC and was invited by local Chinese Media and Press to make speech regarding NTCU. Additionally, President Yang also successfully stimulated and initialized the exchange student programs among NTCU, NYIT, and BYU-Idaho, which increase the achievements of NTCU in International Affairs arena. The visit of USA brought substantial benefits for the faculties and students of NTCU.
(Translated by the graduate student of the Department of Special Education- FeiWen Hsiao)