August 30, 2020 First Blended FYP Orientation Begins For the first time, AUC’s First-Year Program (FYP) for incoming students will be blended this fall.
July 27, 2020 Students Reflect on the Shift to Online Learning “On a global level, online learning proved to the world that learning is an ongoing process that would not be halted even by the spread of a global pandemic.” - Malak Khattab
June 23, 2020 Endorsing Financial Inclusion: AUC Venture Lab Launches PayHack Digital Payments Hackathon Gathering developers, coders, bankers, finance professionals, entrepreneurs, and fintech professionals, AUC Venture Lab’s PayHack, which ran between June 17-21, aimed to support the role digital payment platforms have been playing
July 12, 2020 J-PAL Launches New Regional Research Center at AUC to Help Improve Lives Across Region The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) — together with AUC, MIT and Community Jameel —lau
June 20, 2020 Videoconferencing: Bringing the African Experience to the Virtual Classroom With COVID-19 setting boundaries in the classroom and the widespread policies that attempt to mitigate the pandemic outbreak, internationalization had to be revisited under restricted travel conditions.
June 11, 2020 AUC School of Business Holds its First Regional COVID-19 Online Hackathon The hackathon aimed at building a crisis response system in collaboration with 20+ partners in various sectors, leveraging on the entrepreneurship momentum in the region amidst the challenges faced due to the pandemic outbreak.
June 14, 2020 School of Business Faculty, Students Win EFMD Case Writing Competition’s Family Business Category A case study submitted by AUC's School of Business El-Khazindar Business Research and Case Center titled "Technology Park Company: Harvesting the Fruits of a Family Business” won the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) Case Writing Competition’s Family Business category.
June 3, 2020 AUC School of Business and AUC Library Activate Students as Change Agents Initiative "Change is the law of life, and students are the most effective change agents in universities. Students as Change Agents and Partners is the Libraries and Learning Technologies (LLT)'s new philosophy and pathway for empowering stude
May 31, 2020 Business Association Stepping In: BA Got Your Back While students are coping with missing major milestones of their college life, as well as the absence of traditional extracurricular activities due to physical absence from campus, the Business Association (BA) team vowed to provide stu
May 19, 2020 AUC Provides Mentorship for Gemini Uplift Initiative AUC will be providing voluntary mentorship support for entrepreneurs as part of the Gemini Uplift initiative to support entrepreneurs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
May 5, 2020 Students Virtually Compete to Come Up with the Best Solutions for Real-Time COVID-19 Business Challenges Adding to the list of students’ firsts, we set in motion our first fully remote case competition given the current situation, while still maintaining its essence; getting students in front of real-world executives to compete on solving existe
May 11, 2020 The AUC School of Business Executive Education Jumps 7 Places in Financial Times (FT) Ranking of Open-Enrollment Programs Ranked at 67 in 2020, and rising 7 places from 2019’s ranking, the classification maintains the School’s positioning on the world map as the only ranked school in the Arab region and one of only three in Africa.
May 10, 2020 11 Tips for Managing the Digital Classroom During COVID-19 With faculty members worldwide proactively seeking out innovative ways of setting students up for success and ensuring academic continuity through the shift to online learning, we sought the advice of our faculty members on live lecture strategies
April 17, 2020 Making an Impact: AUC School of Business Receives the Business School Impact System (BSIS) Label The AUC School of Business has successfully completed the European Foundation for Management Development's Business School Impact System (BSIS) process and received the BSIS label, with the findings verifying the School’s significant impact not only on E
April 21, 2020 AUC Venture Lab’s Fintech Accelerator: An Innovation That Inspires Out of more than 1,700 business schools, the AUC Venture Lab’s Fintech Accelerator has been selected among only 25 highlighted innovations in AACSB’s Innovations That Inspire Challenge as a catalyst for innovation.
