| AUR Students Study Abroad
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January
11, 2008: A number
of AUR students are currently studying abroad,
exploring new cultures and languages, in
China, Ecuador, England and the United States.
Alexandra Klein reports from China that
she is finding the cultural differences
exhilarating. She is doing the winter session
at Shanghai University where she has immersed
herself in language and business studies.
Alex is a business studies major in her
junior year at AUR and represents the diversity
that is the University’s hallmark.
Born and educated in France, she came to
AUR as a freshman. |
She is trilingual and anxious
to pick up a fourth language – Mandarin
– and experience yet another county and
continent. In her first week, which included New
Year’s, she shared her enthusiastic observations
by email “I am so glad to be here, I am
meeting a lot of people from all over the world
and the country is fantastic; I have never seen
such an organized city. Everything is amazingly
clean. We have taken some trips. The Temples,
Parks, Pagodas and Monuments are the most incredible
things I have ever seen...!!!I love it more and
more every day!!! For New Year’s Eve I was
in the street with all the locals, I have never
seen a such an organized New Year’s celebration.
The fireworks were fantastic …professor
it was great!”
After the one-month course
in Shanghai, Alexandra will move to Nanjing
for a Spring semester of business and culture
courses at Nanjing University. She is one of
more two dozen students who have taken advantage
of the wide array of study abroad opportunities
offered by AUR through its AURA (AUR-Abroad)
program, in the two short years since the program
was launched. Fourteen have participated in
the China program alone. Ecuador is the second
most popular destination, followed by Spain
and England. Made possible through the cooperation
and support of partner school The College of
Staten Island and its Center for International
Studies, the AURA program offers AUR resident
students a chance to study not only in China,
but in Ecuador, England, Spain, Denmark, Greece,
South Africa, and Vietnam, as well as in New
York City, at CSI (a CUNY institution).
In addition, AUR has an exchange
program with Emory University. AUR honor students
(those on the Provost’s list) are eligible
to compete for The Emory Exchange, which allows
AUR students to spend one semester at Emory taking
courses at both the Goizueta Business School (a
top-20 U.S. undergrad business school) and the
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Two AUR
students were awarded places in the Emory Exchange
for the Fall semester. Bulgarian student Vladimir
Atanassov, a senior International Relations major,
was enthusiastic about the quality of the facilities
and the professors at Emory, and described a unique
opportunity given to one of his finance classes.
“The finance professors are really good,
with long term in-the-field experience on Wall
Street or in the Chicago exchange. You won’t
believe it, but my Applied Investment Management
class received a million dollars from the Emory
endowment fund so the class could invest in stocks,
plus we got another $100,000 from an Emory graduate.
The class’ goal is to make 10% percent profit
by mid-December.” We look forward to having
Vlad back on campus for the Spring semester when
we will find out how close his Finance class got
to achieving their investment goal!
To find out more about the AURA
program and study-abroad destinations, contact
AURA Program Director, Professor Kathleen Fitzsimmons
at k.fitzsimmons@aur.edu.
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