Your gateway to Chinese language and culture

The University of Akron's Confucius Institute is part of an international network, supported by the Chinese Ministry of Education, dedicated to enhancing the understanding of Chinese language and culture around the world.

The Confucius Institute promotes the expansion of Chinese language instruction through a range of educational and outreach activities for students, teachers, businesses and community members...on our campus and in our communities.

The Confucius Institute is a cooperative project of The University of Akron, the National Office of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, Chinese Ministry of Education and Henan University in Kaifeng, China.

For more information, contact us at 330-972-2013 or nee@uakron.edu 

'Chinese Corner' every Monday this semester

The Confucius Institute is sponsoring a Chinese Corner on Monday afternoons from 12 - 1pm in the Student Union

• February 20 room 323
• February 27 room 312
• March 5, 19, and 26, April 9, 16, 23, and 30 room 310
• April 2 room 308
• No Meeting March 12 (Spring Break)

Join us from noon to 1pm to practice your Chinese language skills and deepen cross-cultural interactions on our campus.

Akron/Kaifeng Tuesday Forums

Please encourage your students to join us for these open conversations with their peers in Kaifeng...

• Forums will begin Tuesday, February 21st
• Bierce Library room 268
• 6:50 - 7:50pm
• There will be no meeting March 13th and April 3rd. 

This is the third year that the Confucius Institute, in collaboration with the Honors College and our partners at Henan University, has sponsored the Akron/Kaifeng Tuesday Forum Series. 

These are informal, student-to-student conversations about whatever topics the student participants agree to focus on.  We use the distance education technology in Bierce 268 to create a virtual living room, where UA students sit with peers from Henan University in Kaifeng and share their ideas.  Join us!

Lunch Time Chinese Language Classes

For all UA faculty and staff a one hour Chinese language class taught by visiting professor Dr. Chengxin Zhao. The free classes will meet every Thursday from 12:00 - 1:00 pm in Mary Gladwin Hall room 208.