Learning Community at Education City

I was recently interviewed for the QF magazine, Foundation. The summary points from the interview, entitled "Learning Community (http://www.qf.org.qa/files/tf22/index.html," (look on page 18+) allowed me to articulate some of the issues that I see as important to student affairs in a different cultural setting. I welcome responses to the content of the article. This was primarily an attempt to inform various stakeholders in Qatar of the importance of student engagement in learning and the role of student affairs in supporting it.

Student perspective on learning in Qatar

One of the students attending CMU-Q (one of Qatar Foundation's Education City university partners) offered a blog post that pretty much sums up why we believe so deeply in this work. Varuns' views (http://dohmusafir.wordpress.com/2010/11/07/top-7-reasons-why-i-love-cmu-q-attempt-1/#comment-41) capture both the strength of the individual university (CMU) and the combined experience with the other branch universities that makes Education City such a powerful model.