Program News

Feb. 25 – March 3, 2012: Four GSU faculty members will teach in Cairo. They are: Dr.Sira Nathan (Accounting); Dr.Ritu Lohita (Marketing); Dr. Jonathan Godbay (Finance); Dr. Afag Fazlollahi (Business Communication ).

Feb 25 – March 2, 2012: Dean Fenwick Huss and Dr. Bijan Fazlollahi will meet with the sustainability Committee review the post grant business plan.

Jan. 25 – Feb 2, 2012: Visit of Dean Bishbishy, Dr. Gamal Shehata and Dr. Wael Kortam.more

Jan 11, 2012—Six faculty members arrived in Atlanta for Faculty Development program on January 11, 2012.
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 Dec 6, 2011—Six CU professors are approved to receive J1 VISA to attend faculty development program in Atlanta for two months starting January 10th, 2011.

 Dr. Gamal Shehata, Director Cairo University, landed in Atlanta on November 11, 2011. more

 Aug 22, 2011--Open day invitation: an open house will be held on Monday 22 of August 11a.m. to 1p.m. at the Auditorium... more

 June 19-21, 2011--Ms. Marwa Ali Kamel, administrative coordinator of the project, visited Atlanta. >>

 April 27, 2011--Application for $300,000 new funding to extend the program till July 2012 >>

 April 4, 2011 -- Faculty Development Essam Salem (Accounting) and Amr Soliman (Risk Management and Insurance). >>

 March 15, 2011--Changes in the Courses of 3-Track BBA program >>

 Nov. 30th - Dean Fenwick Huss, Prof. Bijan Fazlollahi, Project Director and Prof. James Boles visited Cairo University Faculty of Commerce and attended the conference on “Globalization of Business Education”. Professor Boles was an invited conference speaker. His talk was well received.

Nov. 28th – Dec. 8th - Prof. Jim Boles taught a course in marketing to junior year students. Professor Fazlollahi attended the class session on Dec. 1st. The students were highly interactive and enthusiastically participated in team work during the session.

Nov 10, 2010 - HED officers: Roy Zimmermann, Hazel Cipolle, and Abdechafi Boubkir met with Dean Huss and Bijan Fazlollahi in Atlanta. They discussed the status of the project. HED will present the concerns of RCB/GSU to USAID-Egypt and seek their help to expedite activities.

 Sept. 23 – The visit of two junior faculty members was postponed to spring 2011 due to delay in processing visa documents through TraiNet system.

 Oct 4 --- President Hossam Kamel and Professor Wael Kortam visited Robinson College of Business. >>

 July 13, 2010 - Mr. Charlie Koo, Senior Program Associate at HED, informed GSU that a no cost extensiion was granted to the program for one additional year.

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