According to the notification of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, Qu Hailin, the full-time professor and the Ph.D. supervisor of Oklahoma State University, was awarded the Famous Overseas Professor of the faculty of Tourism and Food SBS in 2013 and the special fund was granted. 

　　Qu Hailin is a distinguished professor of Oklahoma State University, elite chair professor of William Davis, Chief Director of Hospitality and Tourism Research Centre, the president and chief editor of Journal of Teaching in Hospitality and Tourism and the visiting professor of Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne, Hong Kong University and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. By now, he is also the distinguished visiting professor of Sun Yat-sen University, Fudan University, South China University of Technology and Xiamen University. 

　　Professor Qu Hailin has dedicated himself to the higher education of Hotel and Tourism Management for 27 years. So far, he has published more than 260 academic articles in plenty of famous international scientific journals, which showed his deep and unique attainments about the consumer behavior, branding, image and quality of the Hotel and Tourism field. 

　　Recently, Hotel Management of the faculty of Tourism and Food SBS has acquired two State-Assigned Projects: pilot program of the integrated reform of the undergraduate course and the practice base for the undergraduates. Professor Qu Hailin will enhance the Specialty of Hotel Management with his advanced professional knowledge and the latest information of the scientific development. Currently, the faculty of Tourism and Food is actively preparing for the English course and the scientific research of Professor Qu Hailin in November with the relative departments in SBS.