International Council for Education Development

Sam Song, president (CEO) of the International Council for Education Development (ICED), is an international educator and has extensive higher education experiences in both China and the United Sates. Before relocating to the States, Sam used to teach at a Chinese college and manage a private school as a senior administrator. His academic interest is teacher education and strategic leadership. Sam’s professional passion is for international cooperation of education, public affairs, and business management. Sam has a PhD from the University of Minnesota.

Robert Osburn, Chairman of ICED, is the Executive Director of The MacLaurin Institute, a Christian study center at the University of Minnesota. For eight years he served on the staff of ISI, during which time he organized the L’Abri Conference for Internationals. More recently, he organized two international conferences, the World View for World Healing Conference (1998) and the African Nation-Builders Workshop (2000). He speaks on comparative worldviews, Christians and academia, postmodernism, and nation-building from a Christian perspective. He is a PhD candidate in comparative and international development education at the University of Minnesota. He holds a BA from the University of Michigan and a Master's in Theology from Dallas Theological Seminary. He has been published in The Minnesota Daily, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and American Experiment Quarterly.

Dr. Sidney DeWaal, has served in institutions of Christian higher education as the founding president of The King’s University College in Edmonton; the vice president for academic affairs and dean of the seminary at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton and Boston, MA, and Charlotte, NC, and as the president of Jerusalem University College in Jerusalem, Israel. Dr. DeWaal’s service includes leadership activity – mostly as president or vice president – on 35 boards, among them such institutions and organizations as: The Interreligious Coordinating Council of Israel, The Jerusalem International YMCA, The World Council for Religion and Peace Advisory Board, The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation, The International Council for Higher Education, The Boston Theological Institute, The Appalachia Ministerial Education Resource Center, The Senate of St. Stephen’s Theological College, and the Youth Emergency Shelter Society.He has been privileged to serve as an advisor to presidents, prime ministers, and government officials in support of their tasks and responsibilities.

Larry Selin (PHD) Vice Chairman, provides consulting services for organizational development and performance improvement. A former educational administrator and chief personnel officer, he builds on thirty years of leadership in program planning, evaluation, quality improvement, and accreditation in public and proprietary education. His expertise includes survey development and data analysis. Dr. Selin's teaching experience covers the range of remedial education in mathematics and career development counseling through graduate education and includes work in distance education settings since 1993. He continues as an adjunct faculty member with Walden University. He is active with regional technology and training professional associations and with nonprofit organizations serving Southeast Asian immigrants and advancing effective use of technology in schools.

Arthur Dickinson (JD), Secretary of ICED, an attorney with Moss & Barnett firm in Minneapolis, MN. Mr. Dickinson always has a tender heart for youth growth and he is involved in diverse social services. Arthur is taking care of the ICED legal issues.

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Richard He, got his first Master's degree in Computer Science from the Institue of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS) in Beijing in 1990. He worked as a research fellow at ISCAS to take on some key projects, published several research papers and presented in several international and national conferences. He got some nation-level awards for his research works. He got his second Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Nebraska in 1994. Since then, he worked in several companies (Fingerhut, Medtronic, HB Fuller/Stratyc) as computer engineers. Right now he is working at Wells Fargo Bank as a senior System Engineer. He is the co-founder of China Insight, Inc., which publishes the only English-language American newspaper to focus exclusively on connections between the United States and the People's Republic of China (PRC) and to foster U.S.-China cultural and business harmony. Richard is treasurer of ICED.

Delores Johnson Huanca is a retired professor of nursing and a clinical nursing specialist in mental health. She practices primarily in the areas of community mental health and spiritual care with intercultural and interdisciplinary collaborative emphases. Her experience as an educator and clinician for 32 years was enhanced by her previous nursing experiences in public health, school health, migrant health (Mexican-American) and camp nursing. She was privileged to establish the mental health-nursing role in a multicultural metropolitan community and to provide supervised experience to graduate students as an adjunct faculty member.Throughout the years she designed new courses and developed clinical experiences for students in courses ranging from associate degree to graduate school.

Daniel (Ling) Li, majored in Philosophy and got his Master's degree from Fudan University and his Bachelor's degree from East China Normal University. Then he worked in Academy of Sociology Institute of Social Sciences as an Associate Researcher and participated in a couple of national major projects. He graduated and got his Master's degree of Divinity in January 1999. He is now a PhD Candidate in the field of the Christian Ethics. Christian Education in China has been a heavy burden and a beautiful dream in his mind for a long time.