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US CONSORTIA NEWS DEPARTMENT — Week of March 08, 2010 (Scroll down for more news)
University of Memphis, University of Vlora, Albania
Establish Cooperation
A Memorandum of Understand and Cooperation between the University of Memphis and the University of Vlora, Albania was signed by University of Memphis President, Dr. Shirley Rains, and University of Vlora Rector, Dr. Tanush Shaska. This agreement establishes a promise of cooperation between the University of Memphis and the University of Vlora, Albania to mutual realization and cooperation of their teaching, research, and service programs, especially in their respective Masters in Business Administration (MBA) Programs.
The MOU is the result of work initiated by Dr. Ronald Spahr, Chair of the Department of Finance, Insurance and Real Estate during his invited visit to lecture at the University of Vlora in May, 2009. Subsequently, Rector Shaska was invited to lead a delegation of faculty and administrators from the University of Vlora to visit at the University of Memphis in September 2009 and begin formulating a cooperation agreement with Provost Dr. Ralph Faudree and Dr. Rajiv Grover, Dean of the Fogelman College of Business and Economics.
Mutual cooperation will be carried out by the parties of the two universities in programs including faculty and student exchanges, seminars, teaching and internships with respect business programs of the two universities.
Specifically cooperation will include:
About The University of Memphis
The University of Memphis is a learner-centered metropolitan research university providing high quality educational experiences while pursuing new knowledge through research, artistic expression, and interdisciplinary and engaged scholarship. The University of Memphis is emerging as one of the great metropolitan research universities in the United States, noted for drawing on the strengths and challenges of the urban setting and region in which it is located to address society's issues and needs. Opened in 1912, the University enrolls more than 20,000 students. The University offers 15 bachelor's degrees in more than 50 majors and 70 concentrations, master's degrees in over 45 subjects, doctoral degrees in 21 disciplines, the Juris Doctor degree and a specialist degree in education
About The University of Vlora
University of Vlora is a nationally recognized, public university offering students a personal, high-quality, affordable education through a diverse combination of liberal studies, professional instruction, and cultural and social experiences. Recognized as one of the Albania's main universities, University of Vlora offers its 15,000 students opportunities to work directly on research projects with expert faculty who bring current knowledge right to the classroom. In all its activities, University of Vlora strives to exemplify educational leadership. Anchored by a strong sciences and engineering program, the university is organized into the College of Technical Sciences, College of Economics, College of Humanities, and College of Public Health. The University of Vlora is located in the port city of Vlora on the beautiful, mountainous Albanian coast overlooking the Bay of Vlora and west across the Adriatic Sea and offers bachelors, masters, doctoral and professional programs.
US CONSORTIA NEWS DEPARTMENT — Week of March 01, 2010
Arizona State University and Smithsonian Institution
Announce Education and Research Partnership
The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. has joined Arizona State University (ASU) in an innovative education and science partnership aimed at sustaining a biodiverse planet. Secretary Wayne Clough, head of the Smithsonian, and ASU President Michael M. Crow launched a global classroom – with one foot in Arizona’s Sonoran desert and the other in the tropical landscapes of Panama. The partnership will create opportunities for ASU undergraduates, graduate students and faculty to participate in fieldwork at Smithsonian facilities in Panama, as well as for the development of virtual global classrooms that center on current research in tropical ecosystems. Smithsonian scientists will also participate in ASU degree programs.
“The Smithsonian looks forward to partnering with Arizona State to advance the goals of its new strategic plan which seeks to enhance collaborative, interdisciplinary scientific enterprise and excellence in education,” Clough said.
“Arizona State University shares the Smithsonian's goals and commitments to education, public service and the advancement of collaborative scientific engagement,” said Crow. “The new venture will foster critical thinking and intellectual growth of our students, in addition to extending the creation and application of new knowledge and engagement of our students, faculty and staff with the surrounding world.”
Academic emphasis of the new program will be on sustainability measured by studies of ecosystem services, including insect behavior and social structure in changing environments, biofuels and new world-wide web-based approaches to taxonomy.
The first research program funded by the joint venture “marries Smithsonian expertise and data on the effects of changes in forest cover on ecosystem function with ASU expertise on the economics of ecosystem services,” said ASU’s Ann Kinzig, one of the study leaders. The research will focus on the ecosystem services managed forests deliver to the Panama Canal and their importance to global commerce.
Eldredge Bermingham, director of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and Robert E. Page, Jr., dean of the ASU School of Life Sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will co-direct the new program and note: “This is a natural partnership given our shared emphasis on sustainability and biodiversity studies. Through this partnership we will build joint research projects and will learn from one another in a global classroom.”
“The health of the world and its inhabitants is a moving target. Our educational programs must be structured to meet that challenge,” said Crow. “The Smithsonian is the largest research and museum complex in the world. Our exchange of experts and shared classrooms can and will catalyze learning and discovery, globally.”
“This is an exciting and significant collaboration for ASU,” said Elizabeth Capaldi, executive dean and provost of the university. “We are inspired by the many possibilities that exist within these projects to bring about lasting ecological and economic solutions in areas where some of our greatest challenges lie. Our students and faculty will benefit in countless ways from this partnership with the Smithsonian.”
The Smithsonian Institution:
The 162-year-old Smithsonian Institution is the world's largest museum complex and research organization composed of 19 museums, nine research centers, and the National Zoo. Today, more than 500 Smithsonian staff scientists, augmented by an equal number of fellows and hundreds of international collaborators, conduct research in field stations and laboratories on all seven continents and serve as national and international experts in a wide scope of disciplines. Whether they are looking 5 million years into the past or imagining the future at the edge of the universe, our scientists are forging new paths of discovery and understanding.
About Arizona State University:
Arizona State University is a creating a new model for American higher education, an unprecedented combination of academic excellence, entrepreneurial energy and broad access. This New American University is a single, unified institution comprising four differentiated campuses positively impacting the economic, social, cultural and environmental health of the communities it serves. Its research is inspired by real world application, blurring the boundaries that traditionally separate academic disciplines. ASU serves more than 64,000 students in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona, the nation's fifth largest city. ASU champions intellectual and cultural diversity, and welcomes students from all fifty states and more than one hundred nations across the globe.
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