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LAISS (Liberal Arts Initiative Summer Seminars) is a non-profit program run by Amherst College students, officially recognized and sponsored by Amherst College, and taught by professors from Amherst College. LAISS offers a variety of liberal arts classes on multiple disciplines to Chinese students who are interested in liberal arts education in the U.S.LAISS aims at: providing first-hand experience of liberal arts education to high school students in China;promote a better understanding of liberal arts education among future Chinese intellectuals;inciting intellectual exchanges, which in turn might lead to researches in various disciplines among high school students and professors;serving as an affordable and rigorous platform for intellectual exchanges between outstanding Chinese students and US professors (and potentially US students as well).