04/02/2022
Higher Education Capacity Development Annual Summit with University Partners
The Higher Education Capacity Development (HECD) program, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by the Education Development Center (EDC), held its annual higher education summit on 20 January 2022 bringing together ten Lebanese partner universities and one U.S. based university. The event welcomed the presence of the U.S. Embassy Chargé d’Affaires Richard Michaels, USAID/Lebanon’s Mission Director Eileen Devitt, and university representatives. The summit was an opportunity to highlight the impact of the program. It featured panel discussions with local and international experts from EDC and Florida State University, university professors, students and career center experts. Dr. Rosine Zgheib Abi Rizk, Head of the English Department of the Faculty of Languages and Translation at USJ, has been actively collaborating with EDC on this project. As a panelist, her discussions focused on job readiness skills, and highlighted the importance of career center enhancements, university-employer engagement, adaptations to curricula, work-based learning, entrepreneurship, and design thinking.
The event concluded with the presentation of certificates of appreciation to the universities, honoring their active role in the project.