I’m guessing that most of our readers are not familiar with the International University of Grand Bassam. In fact, I suspect many of you might not be able to place Grand Bassam on a map. Both were surely true of me several months back, but now I’m actually here in Côte d’Ivoire, the Ivory Coast. I arrived from Florence, Italy (read more here) and that’s the amazing thing about travel…Continue readingPit Stop #80: International University of Grand Bassam
Category: International Institutions
Just recently, I returned from hosting NECHE’s first international summit on the campus of EHL Hospitality Business School (EHL) in picturesque Lausanne, Switzerland. Needless to say, it was an amazing location for our four-day meeting, where we welcomed more than 60 representatives from 27 colleges and universities across the globe, including 12 institutions that are full…Continue readingPit Stop #66: Switzerland!
In early February, I had the privilege of traveling to the spectacular island of Malta for an initial staff visit to CoROM (the College of Remote and Offshore Medicine). CoROM is at the very beginning of exploring accreditation by NECHE, a process it shares with a number of other international institutions. As I’ve found in…Continue readingPit Stop #61: College of Remote and Offshore Medicine
This past December, NECHE on the Road traveled to Kuwait — and even though I’m accustomed to being amazed by almost every one of the 50+ institutions we’ve visited, just about everything I experienced in Kuwait and at the university took me by surprise. My purpose in traveling so far was to visit the American University…Continue readingPit Stop #58: American University of the Middle East
I have to admit that Bangladesh was never on my list of must-visit places, but after just a few days there, it’s absolutely on my must-visit-again list. And trust me, it’s not because I made this trip for the weather since as it turns out, I visited in the middle of monsoon season. (I’ll never complain…Continue readingPit Stop #54: Asian University for Women
(If you haven’t read my last African Leadership University blog, please do that first.) As I shared there, African Leadership University in Rwanda and African Leadership College in Mauritius are both part of the same overarching educational institution — but each is clearly deserving of its own post. Together, they were established to build upon the…Continue readingPit Stop #46: African Leadership College
I have worked in Higher Education for more than thirty years and have been exposed to hundreds of colleges, but I can honestly say I’ve never witnessed anything like the African Leadership University (ALU) in Kigali, Rwanda. (You’ll read in the next blog post about the African Leadership College (ALC) in Mauritius, and while the two institutions…Continue readingPit Stop #45: African Leadership University
One of the things I particularly value in our NECHE members– and those institutions seeking to become members — is the incredible diversity of our group. And a trip like the one I’m now taking to the other side of the globe brings that diversity into full focus. After my formal staff visit to Fulbright University, I headed from Vietnam to Jakarta, Indonesia where I was treated to…Continue readingPit Stop #42: Sampoerna University
My previous post on an international university in the process of seeking accreditation from NECHE emanated from a small town high up in the Swiss Alps. This week’s location could hardly be more different in terms of continent, culture, and climate–as I am in the sprawling city of Ho Chi Minh City in the Socialist…Continue readingPit Stop #41: Fulbright University Vietnam