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Professor Stephen Hess served in the Peace Corps’ China program with his wife, Laura Scroggins, who is a learning skills specialist at Transylvania.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Hess, a Transylvania University political science professor, has become a national spokesman for keeping the Peace Corps in China after it was recently announced the program would be ending there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hess, who taught school as a Peace Corps volunteer in China\nand runs a Facebook group for returnees, started a change.org\npetition<\/a> to support his cause. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We love the Peace Corps, and we love that they’re in\nChina,\u201d said Hess, co-coordinator of Transylvania’s Peace\nCorps Prep Program<\/a>. \u201cThey had such a great on-the-ground presence there\nthat we want to see it continue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the Peace Corps’ China program began almost three decades ago, more than 1,300 Americans have served as volunteers in that country, often, like Hess, teaching English to students on a path to become teachers themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a recent article<\/a> in The Hill, which included comments from Hess, U.S. Sen. Rick Scott of Florida has worked to not only change the agency’s independent status, but also to block it from placing volunteers in any \u201chostile nation.\u201d Scott also said he doesn’t think Peace Corps volunteers should be sent to a nation as wealthy as China. (The coronavirus outbreak accelerated their exit from the country as well, according to the Hill.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hess countered by saying much of China \u2014 including the\ninterior where the Peace Corps had operated \u2014 isn\u2019t nearly as developed as\nmajor coastal cities like Shanghai. Additionally, he sees the agency as a way\nto improve relations between countries through person-to-person interaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While on the one hand China and the U.S. are culturally different with contrasting forms of government and they grapple over commerce, they\u2019re each other\u2019s largest trading partner. “You can’t just cut yourself off from a country that’s so important.” said Hess, who\u2019s also an expert on forms of popular protest<\/a> in China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Relationship building, after all, is what the Peace Corps is\nabout. The agency isn’t part of the State Department, and its volunteers aren’t\nfollowing some kind of script. “They’re just engaging on a human\nlevel,” Hess said. The Chinese were \u201cgetting an authentic experience with\nAmericans they otherwise wouldn’t get.” Insights from interpersonal\ninteractions circumvent what the Chinese learn about Americans through the\nmedia, much of which is censored by their government. Conversely, private\nconservation is pretty much unrestricted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another goal of the Peace Corps is for volunteers, upon their\nreturn, to share their experiences with other Americans, which can add\ncomplexity to what we may feel about China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The volunteers were in China to serve and represent America\nand its ideals, Hess said. “It’s a unique combination of nationalism and globalism.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also called the agency a non-partisan space that has support from members of both sides of the aisle in Washington. While the national Peace Corps director is appointed by the president, the agency acts independently like the Post Office. Hess said he doesn’t feel members of Congress such as Scott should dictate where the volunteers serve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The best hope advocates have of keeping the Peace Corps in\nChina is new leadership in Washington, Hess said. “We’re not criticizing\nthe Peace Corps itself; we’re criticizing this unwarranted pressure on the\nPeace Corps \u2014 just basically leave it alone and let it do its thing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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