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December 19, 2007 | |
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Message from the President |
| Happenings | |
| Announcements | |
| Chairs' Corner | |
| Faculty News | |
| The Meeting Place | |
| Students' Corner | |
| Alumni Association | |
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| Message from the President | ||
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Dear ACT Students and Faculty, The holiday season always comes in with a rush and was marked at ACT this year by Dr. Ruth Faden who delivered a groundbreaking lecture on December 17th in Raphael Hall on "The Moral Challenges Posed by World Pandemics"...(read more) |
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3rd ANNUAL MBA CONFERENCE ON COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE OPPORTUNITIES IN THE BALKANS The 3rd
Annual Conference organized by ACT’s MBA department focused on
“Commercial Real Estate Opportunities in the Balkans” and took place on
Saturday, November 24th in the Conference Hall of the Thessaloniki
Chamber of Commerce and Industry...(read
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ALBA&ACT AND NEOCHIMIKI COLLABORATION “In an increasingly more competitive and dynamically evolving global marketplace, able executives are the key to business success.” S. Kibaridis, Senior Director, Neochimiki Group of Companies. ALBA&ACT
and the Neochimiki Group of Companies (to find out more about the
company, please visit
http://www.neochimiki-lavrentiadis.gr/), a 500 million euro leading Greek
multinational company in chemicals and pharmaceutical products, recently
teamed up to establish the Neochimiki Advanced Professional Diploma
in International Management...(read
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DUKAKIS EVENTS IN DECEMBER The roster of Dukakis lecturers continues to grow. In December, ACT hosted two events featuring prominent scholars from within the Greek university community. First, on December 3rd, Ioannis Stefanidis of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki lectured on “Political Culture and Anti-Americanism in Greece.” The lecture was based on material from Professor Stefanidis’ recently published book on Greek foreign policy. ACT then welcomed University of Athens Professor Kostas Ifantis for a Dukakis lecture on “Innovation and Rationalization in Greek Foreign Policy” on December 13th. In addition to teaching international relations at the University of Athens, Dr. Ifantis is also Director of the Hellenic Center for European Studies, a research institute based in the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 3RD MBA STUDENT FORUM “The MBA Student Forum” is a concept that was created in 2002 by TITAN Cement Company in order to foster a dialogue between MBA students and representatives of the academic and business communities to enhance the knowledge of upcoming executives. This year's event took place on Friday, November 30th at the facilities of the TITAN factory in Efkarpia, Thessaloniki. The subjects discussed were: 1. The International
Career: Opportunities and Challenges. The conference
was composed of two sessions of about 90 minutes each. The panel consisted
of two professors, in the role of coordinators, and four representatives
from the business community. During the break, a light lunch was offered,
as well as a tour of the factory’s modern technological facilities. |
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ANNUAL BASKETBALL GAME The annual basketball game between ACT’s men’s varsity basketball team and the Alumni, will take place on Wednesday, January 9, 2008 at 5:00pm. Come, join the event and share in these unique moments. |
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SGA NEWS A group of students from ACT and the University of Thessaloniki organized an awareness raising event on campus on December 11th on behalf of Amnesty International. The event featured talks by ACT SGA representative Asterios Serdaris and lectures on human rights and human trafficking by Nikos Zaikos and Maria Kyriakidou. Some 40 ACT students and instructors attended the event. |
WHAT'S IN A NAME? ACT students have been busy discussing the Macedonian issue this semester.
On Tuesday, December 3rd, Skai TV aired a debate on campus between students
from Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, conducted
by journalist Tasos Teloglou for the well-known TV news program “Oi Fakeloi”...(read
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CONGRATULATIONS! |
CHRISTMAS CARD COMPETITION The ACT Student Government organized once again the annual traditional competition for the Christmas card which is going to be printed and distributed to the entire ACT community. This year’s winner with a promising art career is Giorgos Polyzoidis, son of ACT instructor Anna Kalotidou. Congratulations to Giorgos and to the proud parents! |
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FIELD TRIP CLUB VISIT TO KALAMBAKA The Field Trip Club
visited the city of Kalambaka on December 1-2, 2007. A group of 15 students,
escorted
by
the
Art History
instructor Ms. Daphne Lamprou, visited two monasteries of the Meteora
area, St. Stephanos & the Grand Meteoro. The students were guided
to the museums and the churches, enjoyed the amazing scenery of the Meteora
rocks
and learned about the monastic life and the history of the area. |
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PRESIDENT JACKSON FEATURED SPEAKER AT WASHINGTON FORUM President Jackson was a speaker at a Noon forum of the American Hellenic Institute on November 6, 2007. His presentation was on “Educational Reform and Prospects for Private, Non-Profit Higher Education Under the New Greek Government.” The American Hellenic Institute is a non-profit organization located
in Washington, DC dedicated to strengthening relations between the United
States, Greece and Cyprus and within the American Hellenic community. |
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STUDY ABROAD STUDENT ENROLLMENT REACHES ANOTHER RECORD ACT is preparing to welcome the largest ever cohort of Study Abroad students this coming spring. Christa Ayoub, our US enrolment director, already has 97 applications on hand! Our spring visitors hail from over 30 colleges and universities from all over the US. The biggest “exporter” of study abroad students this coming semester is Northeastern University, with Boston College a close second and 17 students are coming from the various colleges and universities in the CUNY system. Notable also is the fact that ACT's study abroad program now draws from almost every corner of the US, from Massachusetts to California and from Florida to Colorado and North Dakota. |
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BISSELL LIBRARY CHRISTMAS '07 SCHEDULE to see the schedule click here |
GOOD READS FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON!
Escape from the hustle and bustle of the holiday season with a good book...(read more) |
| Chairs' Corner | ||
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Dr. Nikos Kourkoumelis |
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| SEASON'S GREETINGS FROM THE CHAIR OF THE BUSINESS DIVISION I wish to extend to each and every one of you in the ACT family a Christmas filled with happiness, good health, togetherness, peace and, above all, love for one another. I also wish you and yours a prosperous and Happy New Year. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, |
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CONGRATULATIONS! Warmest congratulations to Dr. Aigli Brouskou for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis at Panteion University in Athens. |
CONDOLENCES Deepest condolences to Dr. Sotiris Serbos for the loss of his beloved mother. |
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NEMANJA
GRGIC read more about Nemanja |
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LINA
VANIDIS '00
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| Students' Corner | |
| THIS IS MY
COUNTRY ZIMBABWE by Jonathan Neshena In his first entry, regular student contributor Jonathan Neshena introduces us to his homeland... In the historical ashes of what is popularly known as Rhodesia, today stands the geographically magnificent and multicultural Zimbabwe. Located in the southern part of Africa, Zimbabwe is a landlocked country with its fairly flat land stretching from the fertile Zambezi to the infertile Limpopo rivers. To the south, it borders on South Africa, to the southeast , on Botswana, to its northwest lies Zambia, and coastal Mozambique marks its eastern borders. The entire magnitude of this country can only be grasped if we talk about its politics, economics, culture, and its tourist attractions. After several unsuccessful attempts to rise up against colonial rule from the 1890s, Zimbabwe finally became independent on the 18th of April 1980. This day marked a major transformation from what was once called Rhodesia to present day Zimbabwe...(read more)
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MASTER'S IN PUBLIC POLICY, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION/INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FELLOWSHIPS John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University The Kokkalis Program strives to support individuals committed to invigorating
the public sector in Southeastern and East-Central Europe by providing
fellowships for study at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government...(read
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| Alumni Association News |
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Dear Alumni, As a president of the ACT Alumni Association for my third term (ending May of 2009), I am proud to say that the end of the year 2007 finds the Alumni Association at an excellent shape, with its board members working closely as a team, hard as usual but more effectively than ever. Allow me to present some achievements of the Alumni Board: During 2007, the Association for its first time was in position to make a significant donation to ACT. The choice of the donation was weighted towards giving a technologically sophisticated tool useful for all ACT students: a smart-board. The fund for this donation was raised by your financial contributions during the social events and by tight budgeting control and allocation of sponsors for all necessary expenses of the association. Social events are successful as usual, but with such a high and solid participation from you that we are able to negotiate for better deals both with the sponsors and the bar owners, for achieving the prestige ACT alumni deserve and for collecting financial benefits. Keeping this recipe for success, I am sure more donations will follow. Electronically speaking, the www.actalumni.gr website is under major re-engineering to make it even more interactive for you, while the Facebook profile of the Association, which started as a test, reached 105 members within 9 days, without the slightest advertisement! The number is growing day by day, although this is the first time we’re talking about it publicly… Regarding our recognition-related efforts, board members and more specifically Vice President, Keimis Kryonas, keep observing and analyzing the Greek and international political environment, looking for and taking advantage of the best opportunities to send information to key decision makers about the value of ACT education. Many of you call us or send us messages asking for your professional rights and the possible scenarios for the recognition of our degrees by the Greek state. We are here to help and inform you about latest developments. However, the most moving aspect of the latest association’s achievements is your active part in them. More and more of you are contacting board members and volunteering and making inquiries about how to financially contribute to the Association. More and more of you, actually contribute with the 20€ annual membership fee, during events and through the Association’s bank accounts. All these actions, make the board members understand that we have made a difference in your eyes and that you do see the added value of the Association. And this is exactly what makes us keep on walking and doing all the hard and un-glamorous work for you, in advance of the impressive results. Thank you all, and may all your goals succeed, soon. See you electronically or at the next event, Iphigenia Paparoussi,
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