Dr. John B. Tsu is one of the most prominent educators of the United States of America. Though he was born in the Jilin Province of China, now the People’s Republic of China but was educated in Japan and received his LL.B. degree from the University of Tokyo.
It was in the year 1950 when he came all the way from Japan to the United States. The basic intention was to pursue the Graduate course and thus to fulfill the intention of being an educated young man of the post-war ravaged generation of the early 1950’s. He also became successful in attaining an M.A. degree from the University of Georgetown followed by earning a Ph.D. from the Fordham University. Throughout his life he has been a person of high morale and has been a life long educator with a noble objective of initiating of new avenues in the cultivation of knowledge and thus to serve the cause of the humanity. He at present is the Regent for John F. Kennedy University in Orinda, California. Working as the Professor of Political Science in Asian Studies and also in the Multicultural Education at Seton Hall University, the University of San Francisco, and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he was a visiting scholar he has been widely acclaimed s an institution on himself.
It was the year 1988 when he joined the John F. Kennedy University. It has been recorded in the history of the University himself that he is the first person who became instrumental in establishing and directing the school's Asian Pacific Institute. In this regard, it would be worth of mentioning that in the decade of 1950s he happened to be fiery demagogue and a leading protagonist for the introduction and teaching of Asian languages in the public schools at large. He is also venerated for his role as an open up of increasing Asian participation in mainstream American politics at all echelons of the society, the national, state, and local notwithstanding. In the year 1989, the then President George H. Bush (Sr.) appointed Dr. Tsu as Co-chair of his Presidential Personnel Advisory Committee. It his said that throughout his life and through his selfless devotion to the cause of education he has recommended more than 150 Asian Americans for positions in the Bush-Quayle administration.
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