第20屆哈佛中國論壇"共擔時代責任" (圖片)

所有圖片，周菊子攝。

哈佛大學教務長歐立德(Mark Elliott)。

中國駐紐約總領事館富總領事張美芳。

小米創辦人雷軍

章偉宗(右)

黃晶生。

陳東昇

右起，毛振華，陳東昇，雷軍。

林書豪以視頻致意。

達拉斯小牛隊東主。

徐辰。

曹德旺。

張曉青(左一)主持。

左起，方愛之，鄭博仁，張路，曹強，童士豪。

朱雲來。

劉自鴻。

潘石屹。

北京影響力。

蕭健雄(左)，張鋒(右)。

黑土麥田創辦然秦玥飛

曾任哈佛中國論壇主席的陳羿綸也是黑土麥田董事。

孟曉犁。

新英格蘭中文教師協會講座闡述漢語詞彙及語音語法

        (Boston Orange)新英格蘭地區中文教師協會4月22日在塔夫茨大學舉辦了專業培訓講座。北京師範大學教授張和生、呂俞輝以 “漢詞彙基礎知識及其教學”和“漢語語音、語法知識要點及其教學”為題舉行講座，對與會的40多位新英格蘭地區中小學及大學中文教師進行了培訓。
         講座中，張和生教授指出漢字是漢語作為第二語言學習的難點, 特別是入門階段, 而詞彙的掌握與詞彙量的多少是學習者漢語水平高下的主要標誌 。他提出漢語教師要了解前人總結的造字方法 “六書”，即象形、指事、會意、形聲、轉注、假借。因為“六書”不僅解釋了漢字的本質特徵，還描述了漢語詞與漢字之間的特殊關係。在漢語教學中，了解“六書”才能準確回答有關詞義的各種問題。 他還分析了漢語不選擇拼音文字記錄語言的原因，以及該如何處理教學中的繁簡字等問題。
        張和生教授跟學員討論了詞彙在交際中的影響，強調詞彙教學是語言教學的重中之重。漢語學習者該掌握多少字詞, 哪些字詞，是中文教師關心的問題，因此在對外漢語教學中製定可行的“詞彙教學大綱”是個重要課題，並應遵循詞頻、實效、聯想等原則。張老師的演講詼諧生動，他運用的了大量的實例指導學員如何解釋詞義, 如何辨析近義詞，如何練習詞語的搭配，以及該怎樣幫助學習者擴大詞彙量。
        另一主講人呂俞輝教授強調漢語學習者的發音是否能由不影響交際到逐步接近母語者, 語法是否能由不造成誤解到逐步順暢得體, 不僅是對學習者的要求, 也是教師要面對的挑戰。因此, 對外漢語的語音教學和語法教學從來都是漢語教學的重點和難點。講座聚焦於語法教學, 兼及語音教學。討論了漢語語音、語法方面的教學難點, 分析了學生在語音和語法方面的偏誤, 分享了語音和語法問題的講解與練習的技巧, 歸納出語音和語法教學的基本方法, 並強調漢語語音和語法教學必須關注的幾個問題。
        本次研習會由新英格蘭地區中文教師協會會長胡龍華主持，塔夫茨大學孔子學院贊助。
     （供稿 郭旭）

Massachusetts Receives Nearly $12 Million in Federal Funding to Fight Opioid Epidemic

Massachusetts Receives Nearly $12 Million in Federal Funding

to Fight Opioid Epidemic

BOSTON – The Baker-Polito Administration announced today that Massachusetts has received a federal grant totaling nearly $12 million to bolster its public health response to the opioid epidemic, particularly for outpatient opioid treatment, recovery services and expanded community overdose prevention programs.

“Our administration strongly supported the 21st Century Cures Act as an effort to advance Massachusetts’ leadership in biomedical innovation and expedite new ways to treat disease and addiction,” said Governor Charlie Baker. “We are grateful for the opportunity to use these funds for prevention and treatment activities to address the opioid crisis that has devastated families in every corner of Massachusetts.”

The grant, from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), is the first round of annual funding authorized under the 21st Century Cures Act which was signed into law late last year. The funds will support an array of statewide prevention, intervention, treatment and recovery activities managed by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s (DPH) Bureau of Substance Abuse Services.

“This Administration is intensely focused on ending this epidemic, which has claimed far too many lives across our Commonwealth,” said Massachusetts Secretary of Health and Human Services, Marylou Sudders. “This new grant enables us to continue the fight and expand successful prevention, treatment and recovery programs throughout the state.”

The majority of the $11.7 million in funding will be used to increase outpatient opioid treatment and recovery services and expand community overdose prevention programs. The funding will also support new programs to promote treatment and recovery for at-risk populations, including pregnant and post-partum women and correctional inmates scheduled for release. The groundbreaking Chapter 55 Report, released last year, found that the risk of opioid-related death for individuals following release from incarceration is 50 times greater than for the general public.  

“This funding comes at a critical time and supports our comprehensive response to this deadly epidemic,” said DPH Commissioner Monica Bharel, MD, MPH. “Investing in prevention, intervention, treatment and recovery saves lives and this funding helps us in each of those areas.”

Key Components of the State Targeted Response to the Opioid Crisis Grant:

Expansion of Overdose Prevention Initiatives

·       Expansion of the Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution (OEND)  program in communities with a significant number of opioid overdoses

·       Enhance, expand and evaluate community first responder initiatives to provide follow-up, in-person, outreach and support services after 911 calls for an overdose

·       Overdose prevention training and technical assistance for health and human services providers throughout Massachusetts

·       Improving access to naloxone at pharmacies throughout the state

Expansion of Treatment and Recovery Support Programs

·       Implement an Opioid Access to Recovery (ATR) program focused on individuals affected by opioid addiction in the cities of Boston and Springfield, and in two additional cities that will be determined following a competitive procurement process.

·       Expansion of Office Based Opioid Treatment (OBOT)  to at least seven new community-based sites

·       Improving re-entry treatment and recovery support services for correctional inmates, including access to pre-release Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT), treatment and recovery planning, and post-release linkages to services and recovery support and case management

·       New peer-support programming to assist pregnant, post-partum and parenting women with their recovery

To find out more about the opioid epidemic in Massachusetts, and how to get help for substance use disorders, visit www.mass.gov/stopaddiction or contact the Massachusetts Substance Abuse Helpline at 800-327-5050

Baker-Polito Administration Files $1.287 Billion Affordable Housing Bill

Baker-Polito Administration Files $1.287 Billion Affordable Housing Bill To Increase Development, Extend Key Tax Credits

Legislation will support the production and preservation of affordable housing, and accelerate public housing redevelopment and preservation

From Left, David Croconi of Crocini Consulting, Governor Charlie Baker,
Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Jay Ash, Quincy Mayor
 Tom Koch。(Photo by Chutze Chou)

QUINCY – Today (4/24) the Baker-Polito Administration filed a housing bond bill seeking $1.287 billion in additional capital authorization, to allow the Commonwealth to continue state support for the construction and preservation of affordable housing, and provide funds for public housing maintenance and improvement.

Governor Charlie Baker。 (Photo by Chutze Chou)

Combined with nearly $258 million in current, uncommitted capital authorization, the administration’s housing bond bill would create more than $1.5 billion in capacity to support affordable housing. This $1.5 billion in authorization will enable the administration to fund the current $1.1 billion 5-year housing capital plan and provide capacity for future years.

Lt. Governor Karyn Politio。(Photo by Chutze Chou)

In addition to seeking new capital authorization for affordable housing, the administration’s legislative proposal also extends a key state tax credit that finances affordable housing development, extends a state tax credit that encourages new housing development in Gateway Cities, and offers several reforms to facilitate the redevelopment of state-aided public housing.

Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Jay Ash。
(Photo by Chutze Chou)

“This housing proposal advances our efforts to provide more affordable options and access to economic opportunity for families and individuals in communities across the Commonwealth,” said Governor Charlie Baker. “This legislation gives our administration the tools to meet the pressing need for affordable housing, and to continue caring for the state’s most vulnerable residents, including homeless families, individuals living with disabilities, and elders. I look forward to working with our partners in the Legislature as we collaborate to advance this critical piece of legislation.”

 Governor Charlie Baker, Lt. Governor Karyn Polito,  Quincy Mayor Tom Koch, MA senator John Kenan。(Photo by Chutze Chou)

“Our administration has increased Massachusetts’s commitment to providing working families and at-risk residents with safe, stable, affordable housing,” said Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito. “The housing bond bill we filed today will positively impact the lives of Massachusetts residents, providing new housing options to homeless families and veterans, helping senior citizens age in their communities, and connecting families to greater prosperity.”

The Baker-Polito Administration’s housing bond bill proposes a total of roughly $1.287 billion in new capital authorizations, across ten separate capital accounts. The proposal includes $650 million for public housing modernization and redevelopment, $400 million for the production and preservation of traditional affordable housing, and $216 million for supportive housing and housing serving vulnerable populations.

The administration’s legislation also proposes a number of statutory reforms to increase housing production and preservation in Massachusetts cities and towns across a variety of income levels. These measures include addressing statutory sunset dates in key tax credit programs, removing barriers to constructing accessible units for elders and individuals with disabilities, and reforming the laws governing local housing authorities, to enhance the authorities’ ability to enter into partnerships with outside developers, and attract private resources to address capital needs at public housing communities.

“This legislation will free local housing authorities to take a proactive approach to housing development,” said Housing and Economic Development Secretary Jay Ash. “By allowing public housing agencies to act like community development agencies, and engage in partnerships with outside capital, we will help modernize the state’s public housing stock, address deferred capital backlogs, build mixed-income communities that foster social capital while preserving the public housing units serving vulnerable households, and foster innovation at the local level. And, by speeding these public-private partnerships, we will help deliver more housing production, in communities where the demand for new housing is greatest.”

“Since taking office, the administration has prioritized producing and preserving affordable housing for all residents of the Commonwealth, and increasing this bond authorization will allow the administration to create even more affordable and supportive housing opportunities through our capital budget process,” said Administration and Finance Secretary Kristen Lepore.

“By extending the state low-income housing tax credit, and enabling substantial investments in state-aided public housing communities, this legislation will ensure that Massachusetts continues to be the national leader in providing housing supports to residents in need,” said Undersecretary of Housing and Community Development Chrystal Kornegay.

The housing bond bill advances the Baker-Polito Administration’s commitment to affordable housing. Last May, the administration unveiled a 5-year capital budget plan that includes a $1.1 billion commitment to increasing housing production, a 18 percent funding increase over previous funding levels. The $1.1 billion capital commitment provides for significant expansions in state support for mixed-income housing production, public housing modernization, and affordable housing preservation. The housing bond bill filed today provides the authorization to fully fund this capital expansion.

In addition, the administration and MassHousing have committed a separate $100 million to support the construction of 1,000 new workforce housing units.

Since 2015 the Baker-Polito Administration has provided direct funding to create and preserve over 3,500 units of affordable housing across Massachusetts.

The administration’s housing bond bill includes:

·       State Low-Income Housing Tax Credit: Extends the state’s ability to commit $20 million per year in tax credits to affordable housing projects until 2025. Current law will cut the size of this tax credit in half, to $10 million, onJanuary 1, 2020.

·       Housing Development Incentive Program: Extends the state’s ability to commit $10 million per year in tax credits to market-rate housing projects in Gateway Cities until 2024. Current law will cut the size of this tax credit in half, to $5 million, on January 1, 2019.

·       Accessible Housing Unit Construction: Removes current barriers to constructing accessible units for elders and individuals with disabilities, implementing a recommendation of the administration’s Interagency Council on Housing and Homelessness.

·       MassHousing Services: Expands MassHousing’s authorizing language, to allow the quasi-public agency to provide contract administration, loan servicing, and other services to other states’ housing finance agencies.

·       Local Housing Authority Reforms: Empowers local housing authorities to enter into public-private redevelopment partnerships, and gives authorities greater flexibility to meet deferred capital needs, by:

o   Streamlining procurement laws, to reduce unnecessary bureaucracy in LHA financing, and to unlock public-private redevelopment partnerships;

o   Streamlining public bidding requirements related to construction to reflect existing practices, in instances where LHAs partner with private developers on redevelopment;

o   Allowing local housing authorities to retain the proceeds from the sale or long-term lease of public housing property;

o   Expressly providing for tax-exemption and PILOT payments, for public housing units that are privately owned as part of a mixed-income development; and

o   Allowing all local housing authorities to borrow against their formula funding stream, reducing deferred maintenance backlogs, and lowering development costs.

MAYOR WALSH TO LAUNCH NEW TRAUMA RESPONSE TEAMS

MAYOR WALSH TO LAUNCH NEW TRAUMA RESPONSE TEAMS

Neighborhood Trauma Teams in Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, Roxbury and East Boston to strengthen City response efforts

BOSTON - Monday, April 24, 2017 - Tomorrow, Mayor Martin J. Walsh and the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) will launch new, neighborhood-based trauma response and recovery teams that will offer immediate support to Boston residents and ongoing access to trauma treatments. The Neighborhood Trauma Teams will be in Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, Roxbury and East Boston, and will be managed by BPHC and co-led by teams consisting of a community health center and a community partner. The Neighborhood Trauma Teams will expand on other citywide violence prevention efforts to offer a more coordinated system of care for residents impacted by violence and trauma in their neighborhoods, and will offer individual and family crisis response services, short-term case management, coping groups and ongoing trauma recovery services.

布朗會議研究臺灣 兩紀錄片敘說原住民及新住民議題

布朗會議研究臺灣　兩紀錄片敘說原住民及新住民議題

駐波士頓教育組組長黃薳玉（前左二）與布朗大學「薈聚臺灣」計畫

教授：Robert Lee (後排中，著白襯衫西裝者)、Evelyn Hu-Dehart(前右

三)、Rebecca Nedostup(後右四)、Caroline Frank(前左三)及講者：胡台麗

導演(前左一)、李靖惠導演(前右一)、Ed Lin (後左三)、熊秉真教授(後

左二)、梁一萍教授(前右二)及John Shufelt教授(後左四)等合影

(教育組提供)

布朗大學「薈聚臺灣」2017年研討會在4月20日登場，以「Expats, Migrants, and Immigrants: Taiwan/ese in Flux」為題，探討臺美移民議題。研討會為期2天，放映2部臺灣紀錄片：探討臺灣原住民文化的「讓靈魂回家(Returning Souls)」與關心臺灣新住民議題的「麵包與情人(Money and Honey)」，邀請這2部紀錄片導演與觀眾交流對談。另外也邀請臺裔美籍作家Ed Lin分享其創作經驗，國立臺灣師範大學英語系梁一萍教授及東海大學外文系John Shufelt教授也獲邀擔任與談人。

會議首日放映的紀錄片「讓靈魂回家」，是中央研究院民族學研究所胡台麗博士花費9年時間，紀錄臺灣阿美族太巴塱部落青年向中研院民族所請求歸還原本屬於部落內Kakita'an祖屋裡刻滿著名部落傳說故事的樑柱始末，從協商樑柱歸還、引領祖靈回部落，到重建祖屋所涉及的土地爭議與重現傳統祭典儀式等議題，展現出原住民部落傳統文化、西方宗教傳入後與現代生活型態變遷等交錯複雜議題。紀錄片放映後，布朗大學邀請胡台麗導演與該校歷史系Rebecca Nedostup教授與人類系Nicholas Laluk教授與談。對談中，兩位教授提出如原住民物品歸還(repatriation)議題、整件事由部落青年發起推動的故事等。胡導演說明這是一個很特殊的歸還案例，它最後歸還的不是實體物品（樑柱），而是引領回棲身樑柱裡的祖靈。胡導演也提出，紀錄片中探討到回復傳統的問題，究是要回復什麼時候的傳統呢？目前部落裡，大多數居民改信仰天主教，重現傳說的祖屋與祭典儀式也因涉及很多問題，並非獲得所有居民贊同。祖靈的引回與祖屋的重建，顯現原住民部落面對傳統與現代間的拉扯。特別的是，這部紀錄片不僅紀錄歸還的過程，也持續追蹤探討歸還後部落的發展，探問祖靈引回後，是否真的達到當初運動發起人的初衷：凝聚部落，找回部落遺失的精神呢？

這次研討會除邀請來自臺灣與美國的學者，布朗大學也安排2場學生分享的場次，讓學生報告其臺灣研究相關課程的研究成果。第一天分享的三位學生，Lianne Cho同學選擇從西方媒體報導，研究蔣宋美齡夫人在抗戰所扮演的角色，也運用科技，自行剪輯成介紹影片。Chien Teng Chia則研究流行音樂是否會產生跨太平洋流動，並以4名臺灣與南韓知名藝人，如李玟與王力宏為案例，分析他們結合東西方流行音樂元素的特色，其同時具美國與亞洲（臺灣或南韓）雙重背景，在音樂市場上的優勢與阻礙。最後一位學生Michelle Ng則是研究其祖母故事，探討受日本殖民教育的臺灣人，如其祖母，對日本或臺灣的認同議題。Ng同學展示許多祖母小時受日本殖民教育的照片為例，介紹臺灣過往的日本殖民歷史。

第二天研討會邀請到首位榮獲三項亞美文學獎的小說家Ed Lin，其作品故事背景多取材自身成長環境，如紐約的中國城或臺北。他將分享他的文學創作經驗與美國亞裔族群的現況。另外，會議也將放映第二部紀錄片「麵包與情人」，會後也邀請導演李靖惠與觀眾分享片中討論到的臺灣新住民議題。

布朗大學的「薈聚臺灣」計畫是與臺灣教育部合作的研究計畫，從2015年底開始，執行3年，主要開設以臺灣為主的課程及辦理臺灣研究國際研討會，提升國際間臺灣研究能量。(教育組提供)