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shebab · Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 168

Any news about this relatively new organization? There is absolutely nothing about it on Dave's!

johnslat · Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:42 pm Post subject:

Dear shebab,

Well, there's always Google:

http://www.dubaifaqs.com/american-university-rak.php

http://rak.gmu.edu/

http://wikimapia.org/2725513/American-University-of-Ras-Al-Khaimah-AURAK

http://www.desertspeak.com/viewtopic.php?f=54&p=2984

http://deepwireless.blogspot.com/2009/09/university-job-openings-in-uae-rak.html

http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=101750354154&topic=10762

Regards,
John

shebab · Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 168

Thanks John! Actually, I was looking more for comments about the current state of affairs there. Any objective information about the school itself is easily located on the school's website...

An earlier thread implied that the school was simply a replacement for GMU, and therefore destined to failure...is this still the case?

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

If I was a betting woman, I would say that is a very safe assumption. Cool

My radar hasn't picked up a peep about it. So, I expect that means that there aren't many Westerners there any more. (who tend to be the ones who show up here)

One of those links suggested that they had a whole 100 students in April of this year.

VS

Eisenhorn · Joined: 25 Oct 2009 Posts: 146 Location: HCT Land. UAE

Rumors from my friends in RAK make it sound rather .... .... .... interesting.

They brought back the same admin who "ran it into the ground" when it was GMU. Many of the teachers are the same ones who were there as GMU, but now they are AURAK.

My friends who are there say it is "better than it was under GMU, but still very shakey and needs to get figured out."

According to my friends, they were advertising since May, but they didn't have a complete webpage in english or arabic until the start of September.

shebab · Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 168

I didn't realize there were already teachers working there....Any idea of how much they make? Accomodation/housing allowance? Number/types of students? Are they mixed gender classes?

Sheikh N Bake · Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 1307 Location: Dis ting of ours

The director is the same ogre that GMU fired. She is the one who fired the popular dean of student affairs while she was out sick with a life-threatening condition!...even though dean was to be absent only about two weeks. The rest of us were scum as far as she was concerned. She came on like a dockyard boss. **** her.

shebab · Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 168

So anything new in the past few years about AURAK, hopefully better that what�s already been posted???

OumAyman · Joined: 24 May 2008 Posts: 6

Don't know much about the current Admin, but it has a great new campus. Owned by one of the Sheik of RAK's brother's.

uaeobserver · Joined: 05 Feb 2007 Posts: 236

Evening, friends.

Much like post-war Germany, the SS is no longer in charge (I think she went to Lesotho).

I looked at the institution's information - and it's prototypical UAE: Grandiose Mission/vision ---- and facts are forthcoming, at a later date.

Looking at the faculty list, I'm skeptical about long-term success --- but the UAE has seen a couple of surprises, here and there.

dunteslin · Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Posts: 20 Location: australia

Google in World Edu. RAK for the latest!