{"id":323,"date":"2017-11-13T16:36:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T23:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eescourses\/?page_id=323"},"modified":"2017-11-15T17:29:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T00:29:58","slug":"trip-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eescourses\/trip-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"Trip summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Trip summary<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UCA people &amp; groups<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>UCA cultural heritage: research and teaching faculty (Naryn)<\/li>\n<li>SAS (School of Arts and Sciences) curriculum meeting<\/li>\n<li>Bohdan Krawchenko , director general &amp; dean of graduate studies<\/li>\n<li>SAS; courses and curriculum meeting<\/li>\n<li>Head of student recruitment<\/li>\n<li>Math teaching: instructing faculty<\/li>\n<li>Khorog Campus tour (student)<\/li>\n<li>Coop program &#8211; Naryn<\/li>\n<li>Student life team, Khorog<\/li>\n<li>UCA science teachers, Khorog<\/li>\n<li>Student focus group, Khorog campus<\/li>\n<li>SAS; curriculum meeting<\/li>\n<li>Khorog faculty focus group<\/li>\n<li>Math class visit<\/li>\n<li>Human geog. class visit<\/li>\n<li>Bohdan Krawchenko , director general &amp; dean of graduate studies<\/li>\n<li>Interviews on camera for EES recruiting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Affiliated &#8211; related to AKDN<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AK Agency for Habitat; Ruslan Bobov<\/li>\n<li>AK Foundation, Tom Orr &amp; Amin Virani, from policy development<\/li>\n<li>Central Asian Faculty Development Programme; two participants<\/li>\n<li>Mountain society development support program, Khorog offices<\/li>\n<li>Mountain societies research institute, Acting Director, Marc Foggin<\/li>\n<li>UCA School of Professional &amp; Continuing Ed., Dushanbe office and facilities<\/li>\n<li>School of Professional and Continuing Education, Khorog facilities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Non-affiliated organizations<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Institute of Physics and Technology (2 Faculty members)<\/li>\n<li>Pamir Energy; Mr. Mamdsaidov, strategic partnerships lead<\/li>\n<li>PECTA \u2013 Pamir eco tourism;<\/li>\n<li>Khorog State U. (biology, geology faculty + 2 from admin.)<\/li>\n<li>GIZ: Business and Investor Relations Manager, Mineral Resources for Development, Central Asia.<\/li>\n<li>EITI: (Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other visits \/ tours<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ismaili centre<\/li>\n<li>Walks; markets in Khorog and Dushanbe, the Dushanbe botanical gardens, vicinity of Ismaili centre, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Dushanbe Museum of Antiquities<\/li>\n<li>Barsem debrisflow; 45mins from Khorog, bus trip, guided<\/li>\n<li>Khorog botanical gardens, not guided<\/li>\n<li>Fly to Khorog, Tajik Air<\/li>\n<li>Drive to Dushanbe (13hrs)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eescourses\/trip-summary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trip summary&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22035,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-323","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eescourses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eescourses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eescourses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eescourses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22035"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eescourses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eescourses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eescourses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/323\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eescourses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}