Trip summary
Our 2 week visit in October 2017 was packed with opportunities to meet faculty, students, administrators, affiliated organizations (NGOs and others) and groups with whom we may interact for a range of reasons related to discipline-specific content, student learning, community engagement, and academic development. Here, NOT in order, is the list of groups or people we had the privilege to meet.
UCA people & groups
- UCA cultural heritage: research and teaching faculty (Naryn)
- SAS (School of Arts and Sciences) curriculum meeting
- Bohdan Krawchenko , director general & dean of graduate studies
- SAS; courses and curriculum meeting
- Head of student recruitment
- Math teaching: instructing faculty
- Khorog Campus tour (student)
- Coop program – Naryn
- Student life team, Khorog
- UCA science teachers, Khorog
- Student focus group, Khorog campus
- SAS; curriculum meeting
- Khorog faculty focus group
- Math class visit
- Human geog. class visit
- Bohdan Krawchenko , director general & dean of graduate studies
- Interviews on camera for EES recruiting
Affiliated – related to AKDN
- AK Agency for Habitat; Ruslan Bobov
- AK Foundation, Tom Orr & Amin Virani, from policy development
- Central Asian Faculty Development Programme; two participants
- Mountain society development support program, Khorog offices
- Mountain societies research institute, Acting Director, Marc Foggin
- UCA School of Professional & Continuing Ed., Dushanbe office and facilities
- School of Professional and Continuing Education, Khorog facilities
Non-affiliated organizations
- Institute of Physics and Technology (2 Faculty members)
- Pamir Energy; Mr. Mamdsaidov, strategic partnerships lead
- PECTA – Pamir eco tourism;
- Khorog State U. (biology, geology faculty + 2 from admin.)
- GIZ: Business and Investor Relations Manager, Mineral Resources for Development, Central Asia.
- EITI: (Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative)
Other visits / tours
- Ismaili centre
- Walks; markets in Khorog and Dushanbe, the Dushanbe botanical gardens, vicinity of Ismaili centre, etc.
- Dushanbe Museum of Antiquities
- Barsem debrisflow; 45mins from Khorog, bus trip, guided
- Khorog botanical gardens, not guided
- Fly to Khorog, Tajik Air
- Drive to Dushanbe (13hrs)