Partnership

This visit serves several purposes, most notably, strengthening the cooperative efforts of the two universities, strengthening the international partnership as well as resuming the agreements concluded between the two parties earlier when a delegation from the Arab American University visited Shenandoah University. This visit also aims to hold workshops aimed at developing university education and joint scientific research.

Mohamed Salahat, a lecturer in the Department of Occupational Therapy at the Arab American University, and Dr. Mitchell Wiley from the Department of Physical Therapy at Shenandoah University delivered a lecture. This lecture comes within the ongoing partnership project between the two universities, within the COIL program, which aims to exchange experiences between academics and students from both universities.

In several meetings, the two parties discussed research in the development of curricula, research and administrative activities, learning and training in developing multiple skills in the nursing specialization, as well as touring the university's facilities such as anatomy laboratories, nursing laboratories among others. In addition, the two parties discussed opening new horizons of cooperation in establishing academic programs’ collaboration between the two universities in Virtual reality sciences by the beginning of next year.