Three students from the first cohort, Zhe (Marcel) Bao, Yan (John) Jiang and Molu (Moe) Shi, will receive their degrees from the University of Toronto at the June convocation. “The Green Path students have greatly enriched our campus with their intelligence and enthusiasm, and they will have tremendous prospects for the future.” “After welcoming these young people to Canada a few years ago and seeing them go through their undergraduate courses, we feel like proud parents now watching them graduate from U of T,” said Don MacMillan, Registrar and Director of Enrolment Services.
By the end of this summer, almost 500 students from China will have completed it. To date, a total of 350 students have participated in Green Path.
Since its inception, this pioneering program has become so successful that it has expanded to partner with schools in six Chinese cities: Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Chongqing and Tianjin. Once the students complete the program successfully, they go directly into undergraduate studies. Green Path focuses on English language skills, life skills, and orientation to Canada. Participants take classes, attend field trips and pursue activities that prepare them for life in Canada and undergraduate life at U of T Scarborough in the fall. Each year, a group arrives in early June and lives in residence over the summer. The innovative 12-week program only admits top students. Green Path, which translates from Chinese as “the way to success” – is an innovative program that was first launched in 2005, when 15 students from three cities in the People’s Republic of China came to Canada to study at this campus. This event marks a milestone in the life of the unique program, which has become a success story at UTSC. Students from the first cohort of the Green Path program at U of T Scarborough are set to graduate from the University of Toronto this spring.