(PRWEB) May 28, 2013
The Board of Trustees of the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani (AUIS) announced nowadays that it has unanimously elected Dr. Dawn Dekle as the initial lady President of AUIS.

I am honored and privileged to be given the opportunity to lead this institution which has currently accomplished so considerably to strengthen greater education in Kurdistan and Iraq and with the prospective to do even more, Dr. Dekle said upon accepting the position at the 900-student liberal arts college in its sixth year of operations.

Dr. Dekle, who is at present the Provost at the American University of Afghanistan (AUAF), will commence her responsibilities in September and will succeed Dr. Athanasios Moulakis, who announced his departure final September and will retain the title President emeritus. Upon assuming the post Dr. Dekle will grow to be the very first ever lady president of an Iraqi university.

The Trustees could not be much more pleased with the operate of the search committee in identifying an extraordinary pool of candidates, mentioned Dr. Barham Salih, Chairman of the AUIS Board of Trustees. Dr. Dekle brings impressive academic credentials, a robust record of productive academic leadership, and an informed commitment to the ideals of an American-style liberal arts education. We appear forward to her contributions to make AUIS the university of choice in Iraq.

Dr. Dekle earned her bachelors degree with honors from Texas A&M University. She then went on to attain a PhD in Experimental Psychology (Cognitive Science) from Dartmouth College and a JD from Stanford Law School. She has been Provost at the American University of Afghanistan considering that 2011. During her tenure she has implemented undergraduate law and graduate organization programs and led the institutions US regional accreditation efforts.

As the initial lady President of AUIS, Dr. Dekle will oversee efforts to: earn regional accreditation in the United States create academic programs that continue to attract leading students from across the nation and strengthen resource acquisition, allocation, and management, including the establishment of an endowment capable of supporting scholarships, building, faculty development and co-curricular activities.

Dr. Dekle comes to AUIS with distinctive teaching, scholarship, and management experiences. As a pioneer member of the faculty at Singapore Management University (SMU), she served as the Head of Teaching Excellence, and held academic appointments in the School of Company and School of Economics and Social Sciences, where she also won two teaching awards. Prior to SMU, she has also held faculty appointments at The National University of Singapore, James Madison University, and Dartmouth College. Prior to moving to Afghanistan, Dr. Dekle served as Dean of the Undergraduate Plan and Dean of the Center of Leadership for the S P Jain College of Management in Singapore. Dr. Dekle has held leadership positions outdoors of academia, such as a member of the Board for the Singapore Institute of International Affairs, and as a leadership specialist and Global Expertise Manager at the consulting firm McKinsey & Co, exactly where she helped launch the McKinsey Center for Asian Leadership.

As a scholar of leadership and management, Dr. Dekle has published in academic journals, presented at international conferences, offered keynote addresses for the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), and served as an analyst for tv and radio concerning President Obama and his strategies in Asia and the Middle East.

About AUIS

Founded in 2006, AUIS is Iraqs only private, non-profit university for public advantage. Academic applications, taught in the English language by international faculty members, are created to meet or exceed requirements set by regional accreditation organizations in the United States. It is the objective of the University to make graduates of responsible character with the required expertise and expertise for skilled and national leadership. Students develop strength in critical thinking, the capability to communicate properly, a strong work ethic, very good citizenship, and personal integrity. Broad-based education, rooted in the American liberal arts tradition, as effectively as ability development is accomplished at the University by way of teaching excellence, good quality scholarship, and caring student solutions.

The almost 1,000 students at AUIS come from all over Iraq and represent the countrys diverse ethnic and religious landscape. Kurds, Arabs, Turkmen, Sunni and Shia Muslims, Christians, Yezidis et al. populate the increasing student body. At AUIS the devout and the agnostic interact freely, as do males and females.

In May possibly, AUIS will host its second annual commencement workouts and concern undergraduate degrees in Business Administration, Info Technology, and International Studies and a graduate degree in Enterprise Administration. The University also has undergraduate degree programs in Common and Mechanical Engineering and English.

The University is proud to cooperate with key institutions in the United States to strengthen its academic and outreach applications. Notable among them is its partnership with the University of Colorado-Boulder to support its Engineering applications. Other key collaborations consist of the the Iraq Legal Education Initiative, a partnership with Stanford Law College to enhance the good quality of legal instruction in Iraq and the Center for Expertise in Teaching and Understanding, a partnership with the University of California, Los Angeles to give free of charge pedagogical resources to secondary and tertiary educators in Iraq.