As they strive to become world-class educational institutions, China's universities must overcome a host of impediments, from antiquated curricula to mounting debt When Rao Zihe became president of Nankai University in May 2006, he hatched a plan to restore glory to a faltering institution. To shake up the system, Rao set out to hire new deans for 15 of the 21 colleges. Applications flooded in. After interviewing six or eight candidates for each post en masse at Nankai's leafy campus here in Tianjin, a port city 120 kilometers east of Beijing, Rao chose his deans.
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