MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee (seated, left) and Du Wei, president of Hangzhou Normal University (seated, right), sign the formal agreement Monday extending the partnership for the Confucius Institute on the Murfreesboro campus. The signing followed a meeting of the institute’s advisory board on HNU’s Cangqian campus. Also pictured from MTSU is Institute Director Guanping Zheng (left); Paul Martin, a member of the CIMTSU Advisory Board; Vice President Andrew Oppmann; Wu Xiaowei, HNU’s director of the Department of International Cooperation and Exchange; Yiping Cui, associate director of the Institute; and Tang Shiming, vice director of HNU’s Department of International Cooperation and Exchange. (MTSU photo)