Mongolian-American universities intensify partnership
The National University of Mongolia signed a partnership agreement with University of Alaska Anchorage.
The National University of Mongolia (NUM) signed a partnership agreement with University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA). The agreement is to connect UAA’s Mongolian Students Society with NUM’s student parliament in hopes that the students can collaborate and work on projects or capstones together. It will open doorways to collaborative research and faculty and student exchanges. One of the first projects the partners look forward to doing is helping improve Mongolia’s civil service. The parties believe encouraging participation from the public and offering collaborations from UAA’s end of the agreement could help reform Mongolia’s civil service. The partnership agreement was an initiative by John Duffy, adjunct professor for UAA’s College of Business and Public Policy. He began visiting Mongolia in March of this year to work on civil service reform, among other projects. Thus, he had a chance to collaborate with the National University of Mongolia which helped John Duffy to spot the possibility of the partnership with the NUM. According to John Duffy adjunct professor for UAA’s College of Business and Public Policy, Mongolia and Alaska share similar qualities, such as impacts of climate change and having natural resource-based economies. This led UAA to consider establishing an official connection between UAA and NUM. Though the partnership agreement between the National University of Mongolia and University of Alaska Anchorage is still new, both sides believe that the partnership will foster educational tasks and opportunities for both universities.
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