Mengfei Wei is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Institute of International and Comparative Education (IICE) at Beijing Normal University, China. He is currently serving as a visiting scholar at the Institute for International Studies in Education (IISE) at the University of Pittsburgh. His faculty counterpart at the University of Pittsburgh is Prof. Najeeb Shaqif and his current research project is “A Comparative Study on Intercollegiate Cooperation among Universities in China and America: Analyzing Costs, Benefits and Operating Patterns of Social Networks in Universities.” Wei received his master’s degree in Institute of Higher Education at Beijing University of Technology. His studies focus on international and comparative education with special interest on American Higher Education. His Ph.D. dissertation topic is “the Impact of American Higher Education on Developing Countries.”