{"id":620431,"date":"2026-05-03T04:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T04:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/620431\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T04:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T04:15:15","slug":"chinese-man-makes-history-as-first-educator-from-mainland-university-to-lead-top-us-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/620431\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese man makes history as first educator from mainland university to lead top US institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">More than 40 years ago, he became the first person from his rural family to study at a university in China.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Four decades on he was appointed chancellor of UC Riverside, a prestigious school in the United States.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The story of S. Jack Hu, a Chinese-American who is the first individual with a bachelor\u2019s education from mainland China to head a top US institution, has trended on social media, inspiring millions of internet users.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The 62-year-old Hu, whose Chinese name is Hu Shixin, hails from a village in Changde in central Hunan province.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"S. Jack Hu, above, was born into a village family in rural China. Photo: Courtesy of UGA\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/24081226-bb66-400d-bd20-4e1f7e186155_6552fd81.jpg\" title=\"S. Jack Hu, above, was born into a village family in rural China. Photo: Courtesy of UGA\"\/>S. Jack Hu, above, was born into a village family in rural China. Photo: Courtesy of UGA<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He studied engineering machinery at Tianjin University in China, receiving a bachelor\u2019s degree in 1983.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 40 years ago, he became the first person from his rural family to study at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[15856,268915,23,268924,20027,23685,48918,144,8192,20251,1976,20630,218080,38047,146122,268918,526,16323,4435,192,3727,3006,10254,2420,146,2020,473,227437,268917,7532,76730,24922,268921,20566,268925,169785,1766,5476,3,42871,53097,34639,45773,5573,8595,1728,5636,67937,3858,79,268922,20464,108,268919,212785,5767,14488,268923,268916,59952,268920,16798,21,19,22,20,6671,25,24,33753,22828,1350,41868,15186],"class_list":["post-620431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-academics","tag-acdemic","tag-america","tag-aspire","tag-budgets","tag-challenge","tag-chancellor","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-circle","tag-college","tag-common","tag-communicating","tag-congratulations","tag-decades","tag-dressed","tag-education","tag-effort","tag-engineering","tag-environment","tag-event","tag-family","tag-global","tag-government","tag-graduation","tag-historic","tag-history","tag-identified","tag-imitate","tag-influential","tag-inspiring","tag-institute","tag-integrate","tag-interests","tag-life-changing","tag-machinery","tag-magazine","tag-manufacturing","tag-news","tag-observer","tag-opportunity","tag-overseas","tag-phd","tag-positive","tag-prestigious","tag-research","tag-rural","tag-scholar","tag-school","tag-science","tag-screeing","tag-smart","tag-social-media","tag-socialised","tag-speeches","tag-sporting","tag-students","tag-suitcase","tag-tenure","tag-textbook","tag-trivial","tag-trust","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-university","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-vice-president","tag-village","tag-visa","tag-welcome","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}