First time in 14 years FLEX finalists in Uzbekistan were announced!

Congratulations 🎉 to the first FLEX cohort in such a long hiatus!

American Councils for International Education invites you and your colleagues to participate in a UniCEN webinar with Katie Curiel, Globalization Advisor at Narxoz University.
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Webinar 5: Great Marketing and Communications for Successful Internationalization
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At this exclusive webinar, enhance your skills, knowledge and strategies to achieve successful internationalization through strategic rebranding and building your global marketing and communications. With a special focus on using the current global pandemic as an opportunity, learn the best practices and key principles to effectively advance your institution's internationalization, align stakeholders and increase sustainable partnerships.
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Date and Time: June 4, 2020, 04:30 PM (Nur-Sultan/Bishkek time)
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🔗Please follow this to link to register for the webinar: https://bit.ly/3gH3xzZ

American Councils and FLEX Alumni Office are delighted to announce the next round of the FLEX alumni Book Challenge 📚.
It is designed to turn the quarantine into a book-discovering experience and let everyone share their impressions, lessons learned from the book of their choice.

Here is a simple instruction on how to participate in it:

• Fill in your information on this form: https://forms.gle/A8wP6zjVJ1RM5M1T6
• Choose a book.
• You will join our book discussion group on the telegram app. We will send you the invite link after you register and choose a book.
• After finishing the book, you will be required to hold an online Zoom presentation (or any platform you like for online video or audio calling) and share your thoughts about the book, explaining what you have learned from it.
• All participants who have read at least one book during quarantine will be gifted with FLEX promotional items. Gifts can be sent to the bookworms via post as well.
Deadline: June 25, 2020

American Councils for International Education Uzbekistan invites you to the next UniCEN webinar "Accreditation Structures in the United States"
📌About the webinar: The presenters will discuss the types of accreditation within the United States and the processes through which institutions can become accredited. Participants will learn about institutional and programmatic accreditation, self-studies, the peer-review process, and the importance of accreditation agencies.
📌About the experts: Erica Eckert, Ph.D., is an Assistant Dean of Assessment of Accreditation and Assistant Professor in the College of Education, Health, and Human Services at Kent State University.
Martha C. Merrill, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Higher Education Administration at Kent State University.
Mark Kretovics, Ph.D, is an Associate Professor of and Program Coordinator for the Higher Education and Student Affairs program at Kent State University.
⏰: June 10, 2020, 18:00 UZT
✏️Register for the webinar: https://bit.ly/2MrZGZr

American Councils Uzbekistan and FLEX Alumni program present!

We are excited to announce a new campaign which is called "COVID-19: let's FLEX it!". This campaign highlights outstanding FLEX alumni who are currently undergoing a lot of pressure from COVID-19 and still keeping the hope for the world and showing off their resilience by adapting to the COVID-19 present lifestyle.

If you are a FLEX alum and want to share your story about how you are coping with COVID-19 pandemic, how has your life changed during the lockdown and what did you do to fight COVID-19 in your own community let us know by emailing us here flex.alumni.uz@americancouncils.org.

We will be happy to answer your questions and explain the campaign guidelines.

So, let's #FLEXit! (make life more flexible during the pandemic with sharing our lessons with each other)

Support us by likes and shares so that more people know about FLEXibility during COVID-19.

#acglobal #flexprogram #flexalumni #letsFLEXit

📣🎉📣🎉📣🎉Hello, Friends!
Join us this Friday, June 12 at ⏰6:00 p.m. for a Live Chai Chat with an American Diplomat Joanne Kramb to hear about the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, Texas! 💯You will have a chance to ask Joanne questions in real time!
✅No registration required! To participate, go on the ACT Facebook page at 6 p.m. and click on the live video icon!
We look forward to seeing you there!👀

Building Virtual International Partnerships in Higher Education 🤝
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Through UniCEN, American Councils has cultivated a network of dozens of higher educational institutions across Central Asia and provided coaching and training to realize partnerships with US institutions. 🇺🇸
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To support global experience for all its students and faculty, the Penn State Beaver campus developed the Experiential Digital Global Engagement or EDGE program. EDGE enables Penn State faculty to co-create curriculum with their peers in other countries, leveraging accessible technology platforms like Zoom to enhance student interaction. 👨🏻‍💻
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📝Check out the full article here - https://bit.ly/2Uwdab6

American Councils Uzbekistan is proud to highlight the success of its FLEX program alumnus Rauf Salahodjaev ‘04 (Tashkent, Uzbekistan/Austin, Texas, USA).

Rauf was featured on UzReport channel. During the interview, he talked about the state of Science in Uzbekistan and prospects of economic growth in the post-Covid era.

Check out his video on this link: https://youtu.be/JlMH93yuMik

Our next "COVID-19: Let's FLEX it" story is here! Check it out through this link: https://bit.ly/2Y80cBm

Thank you Anna Kim for such an inspiring story. We enjoyed reading some of the challenging moments which made you stronger.

#acglobal #flexprogram #flexalumniuz #letsflexit

​​Congratulations, Elyorbek Bozorov ’09!

Elyorbek has won Spring 2020 Travel and Professional Development Grant.
He will earn a subscription to DataCamp.com, an online platform to learn data science skills. Elyorbek will then conduct data courses in Uzbek locally, through funding from a different grant program. Elyorbek also won a full scholarship at Lehigh College of Business (MBA) recently. He will be starting his MBA degree in USA soon.

Go for it, Elyorbek!

​​Congratulations,🎉 Guzal Sultankhodjaeva '04!
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Guzal became a finalist of Spring 2020 Travel and Professional Development Grants. 👏🏻
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Guzal earned a scholarship to study online courses in professional life coaching to augment her skills in her chosen profession: Human Resources. With her newly attained skills, she will provide free-of-cost coaching sessions to a number of interested FLEX alumni.
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We are looking forward to hearing some exciting news from Guzal regarding her project!
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Keep learning! 💙
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#acglobal #flexprogram #flexalumni

​​Congratulations🎉, Vladlena Magay ‘07!

Vladlena became a finalist of FLEX Alumni project grants. 👏🏻

Vladlena would like to hold a three-day camp for 32 tenth grade students to make more informed decisions about their academic and professional paths. The theme of this project is social development of participants and economic development of the country.

Great project, Vladlena! Go for it! 💙

#acglobal #flexprogam #flexalumniuz

We are proud to highlight our next FLEX alumnus Jamshid Jambulov '10 in series of "COVID-19: Let's FLEX it" stories.

His story makes us think about how much human kindness can do for the whole world.

Jamshid we are proud of you! Keep it up and good luck with all that you do! 🌷

Please, read more about Jamshid's story here - https://bit.ly/2Y80cBm

#acglobal #flexprogram #flexalumniuz #letsflexit

The Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (Exchange Programs - U.S. Department of State) made the difficult decision not to bring FLEX participants on program this coming fall.
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We know, for the hundreds of young students who worked so hard to earn this scholarship, that this is difficult news. The program is considering alternate forms of programming, such as a semester program starting in January, and will communicate with finalists as those develop.
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Despite this, the FLEX family remains strong and united, and will meet this challenge as all others – together.

On July 7, 2020 FLEX Alumni office hosted its second Book presentation within the framework of the FLEX Alumni Book Challenge Round 2. Speakers, who successfully finished reading their book of choice, highlighted the lessons they have learned from the book and shared the key takeaways with the participants of the presentations.
Abdurahmon Dadaboyev, FLEX alumnus ’07 and Charos Rustamova, a young neurology student, shared their thoughts on the books they have read during the quarantine. Abdurahmon read “Ride of a lifetime” by Robert Iger and shared his view on the key factors the book focuses on. Charos had the chance to read “Emotional Intelligence” by Daniel Goleman, which she found out to be one of its kind in terms of explaining the meaning of EQ.
FLEX alumni and USG alumni were keen on asking different questions and exchanging ideas on themes the books focused on, such as emotional intelligence, how the brain works, and tying these notions with learning and leading in one’s lifetime. 💙

We are excited to share with you our fourth "COVID-19: Let's FLEX it!" story, which features Yulia Rashchupkina '04, who is also Global Village 2020 finalist from Uzbekistan. Being an international alumna more than once, she now says that FLEXibility is everything to her!

Enjoy reading her story here: https://bit.ly/2Y80cBm

Don't forget to ❤️ it and ↩️ it with others to spread the word.
Stay calm, optimistic and flexible!

#acglobal #flexprogram #flexalumniuz #letsflexit

FLEX unites and brings people to explore the world together. Our FLEX alumni Otabek Yuldashev '05 and Nodirbek Abdullayev '99 had the chance to stay away from the ongoing pandemic by hiking to the tallest peak of Colorado Mountain which is Mt.Elbert - 14,440 feet. Best friends say, "We love FLEX at the tallest peak of Colorado!" 💙

#OnceFLEXforeverFLEX #acglobal #FLEXprogram #flexalumniuz

It’s a “COVID 19: Let’s FLEX it!” storytime! This time we are happy to feature Irina Kuryazova ‘02 (Khorezm, Uzbekistan/Pearl City, HI, USA) and her story on how much she appreciates family time during the pandemic.

Find her story here: https://bit.ly/2Y80cBm

#acglobal #flexprogam #letsflexit #flexalumni #covid19story