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Friday, December 6, 2019
Alina Bobrova serves as the Head of the International Department at Pridnestrovian State University in Chișinău, Moldova. In October and November of 2019, she traveled to the U.S. through the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) to study higher education in the U.S. The IVLP is an initiative funded by the Department of State Office of International Visitors (OIV) to foster mutual...
Learn moreModernizing Higher Education Systems - From Delaware to Basra
Monday, December 2, 2019
Maher Talib Abdulzahra Al Shamkhani serves as Director of both the Continuing Education Center (CEC) and the Career Development Center (CDC), as well as a lecturer, at Southern Technical University in Basra, Iraq. In 2019, he traveled to the U.S. as a participant of the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), focusing on academic and industry partnerships in the oil and gas sector....
Learn moreGetting Entrepreneurial – Lessons Learned and Done
Thursday, November 7, 2019
There is a popular phrase in China that says seeing once is better than hearing one hundred times. Similarly, in the U.S., people believe doing is by far better than seeing. During my expereince visiting the US as part of the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), everyone I had a chance to speak with– be it a taxi driver or a bartender, professor, student, or stranger...
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