Frank Kehl

Frank Kehl is President of US-CX inc, United States-China Exchanges, a consulting company that deals in international training. Dr. Kehl speaks fluent Cantonese and Putonghua (Mandarin). Previously, he spent two years living among and studying mostly working class squatters in a Hong Kong shantytown. He was one of the founding organizers of the CUNY- Shanxi Education Commission exchange which will enter its 21st year and 11th conference cycle in June 2006. The focus of his group in the exchange has been on worker (re)training. Before his retirement from CUNY, he was Associate Director, Weissman Center for International Business, Baruch, where he helped train scores of managers in many industries from all over China. Since then he co-directed the Community Colleges in China Project, a Ford Foundation-funded program of the US-China Education Foundation, and will train the third cohort of bankers from the China Huarong Asset Management Corporation this November.

“What! A Labor Shortage in China?”

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Is it even conceivable that there could be a labor shortage in China? Knowledgeable people have diametrically different views. The question itself operates like a Rorschach inkblot: the answer tells more about the presumptions of the respondents than the reality facing them. But there is a reality and there is an answer, and the implications … Read more

“Modern” Education vs. “Traditional” Culture: The Ford-funded Community Colleges in China Project

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The Community Colleges in China Project was conceived as a way of introducing American community college concepts to China.  It was felt that community colleges were both great engines of mass higher education, nimble promoters of new technologies and spurs to local economic development, just the things needed and wanted by a China making the transition from planned … Read more