Dr.
John Jusu is the Academic Dean for the AIU School of Professional
Studies. As I talked with him earlier this week, I could see he has a
busy summer schedule ahead of him as he develops curriculum for the new planned
programs. John indicated he was almost finished with the Bachelor of
Information Communication Technology. They are also planning Bachelor of
Science Programs in Finance and Accountancy, Entrepreneurial Studies, Community
Development, and Engineering and Information Technology. Professor Jesu
has been traveling in the USA earlier this year meeting with Theological Schools
such as Wheaton, Asbury Seminary, Indiana Wesleyan University, Fuller, and
Trinity in a collaborative effort to align planned curriculum with the AIU
mission, vision, and core values to determine the methodology for content
delivery.
One
of Professor Jusu's biggest concerns is insuring that the undergraduate Bachelor’s degree
programs maintain the excellent reputation that the graduate programs offered
at NEGST have established. Maintaining a quality brand is important as
these new programs are added. If AIU is successful in attracting 60 new
students to each of the 5 new programs planned, it will place a significant
strain on existing facilities. Also recruiting and training faculty will
be a challenge given the planned launch in September, 2012.
John
stressed the importance of the need to diversify their current network
especially in the area of creating exchange programs for students and
faculty. He would like to see a centralized funding of these programs
that creates a reciprocal mutually beneficial platform that allows access to
greater international faculty and student resources. Just as AIU can
learn from other Western schools that have integrated theological and secular
undergraduate program offerings, the Western institutions can learn a lot from
AIU which is well positioned as an authority and the center of World
Christianity.
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