We receive visiting scholars from China. Their academic qualifications are reviewed by our faculty members in the departments. Once they have been accepted academically, we'll issue an invitation, and there's a very complete internal process.
The Confucius Institute at Carleton initializes an internal process. Then processing is carried out through the approval of the chair and director of the department, then the dean of the faculty, and then, ultimately, the vice-president of research and international or the provost and vice-president academic.