This book is of interest to rural development teachers,facilitators, students,researchers and practitioners. It is also of interest to education managers and policy makers engaged in (higher education) reform processes. Researchers and evaluators interested in tracer studies could use the book as a reference and source of inspiration.

1. Launching the initiative

 Integrating community-based natural resource management

 into Chinese higher education

Rejuvenating higher education in China

The CBNRM mainstreaming strategy

Design of the tracer study

2. A brighter sky. individual changes

Current employment status of CBNRM graduates

 Influence on individual, professional and personal

   development

Summing up

3.Broadening the horizon, organizational, community-level

  and policy changes

Teamwork becomes more popular

Human resource development

Program management

Network building

Passing the torch to other organizations

Contribution to community development

 Influencing policy

Summing up

4. Becoming stars, selected histories from CBNRM mainstreaming

 participants with Dong Hairong , fin Yue , Kuang Zongren ,

  Lu Jingfang , Na Kunpeng , Chen Keke , Fan Junliang , Fan

  Yutao , Qi Gubo , and Yang Huan

2  Into a new orbit:changing China's higher education system-in person

 Experimenting with the life stories method

 Passing the torch: the advantage of an enabling

   environment -- Dong Hairong's story

 Give me a chance and I will reach the stars: social change

    and the new generation -- Jin Yue's story

 Opening the road: the effects of good pioneering practice

    -- the stories of Kuang Zongren, and Lu Jingfang

 From bookworm to practitioner: learning from the

    field--Na Kunpeng's story

 Learning by doing: lightening the way to professional

   development -- the stories of Chen Keke,and Fan

   lunliang

 The magic of teamwork and social learning--Fan Yutao's

    story

 Changing my life's orbit: the power of networking

    -- the stories of Qi Gubo,and Yang Huan

5. New constellations: conclusions

Tracing professional and personal impact

Right time, right place, right team

Learning by doing: reflections on the tracer study method

Appendix 1: Questionnaire for the tracer study

Appendix 2 : Checklist for individual interviews

References

Notes on author and contributors