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From UO Celebrating Champions

By almost any measure, Brandon Yeh has been an exceptional student. The double-major in political science and Chinese has received four scholarships, including Chinese flagship presidential and UO dean's awards.

He is graduating at the end of winter term with a certificate for completing the rigorous, four-year UO Chinese Flagship Program. And he's one of just fourteen of the program's students since 2010 to also earn a prestigious National Language Flagship Certification in Mandarin Chinese. 

But there are at least a couple duties that have not come easily for Yeh: "Juggling the academic workload­ and explaining to people what flagship is," he says.

For starters, the UO Chinese Flagship Program­ offered through the Center for Applied Second Language Studies (CASLS) and the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures is a government, business, and education initiative aimed at producing graduates with professional-level Chinese language and cultural competency skills.

The UO is one of just eleven colleges or universities in the U.S. to offer Chinese Flagship Programs. Students are prepared for China-related careers through cross-disciplinary courses, cultural outreach, summer programs and peer tutoring.

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