2008 Occasional Papers - AUK

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About AUK Occasional Papers:The AUK Occasional Papers publish articles andcontributions concerning the liberal arts education andbusiness in the Gulf or Middle Eastern contexts. Articleson the value of humanistic education in the application tobusiness in the Arabian Gulf region will be considered aswell as contributions on communities or regions of theworld that have strong ties with the Arabian Gulf. Becauseof its interdisciplinary nature, AUK Occasional Papersdoes not accept technical or highly specialized material, nordoes it publish in the areas of administration or training.Editorial Office:P.O. Box 3323, Safat 13034, Kuwait. Email:editor@auk.edu.kwPublished byAmerican University of KuwaitCopyright 2008 AUK Board of Trustees.All rights reserved. No part of this publication may bereproduced, in any form or by any means, electronic, orotherwise, without permission in writing from AmericanUniversity of Kuwait.ISSN 1994-6295020510182324334246516180104113139Table of ContentsIntroduction:Establishing a Liberal Arts Tradition in KuwaitMarina TolmachevaThe Impact of a Glass Ceiling on Women in KuwaitAthmar Al-SalemRetaining the Liberal Arts Student:Social and Academic Programming Needs at an“American” University in Kuwait Abigail GrayMemory and Subjectivity among Kuwaiti Youths:Child Witnesses of the 1990 Iraqi Invasion of KuwaitConerly Casey and Juliet DinkhaA Complexity-informed Basis for Social and CulturalChange in the Gulf David LevickWhen Wasta and Liberal Arts Conflict:A Case Study of a Private University Mark J. OlsonRethinking Entrepreneurship:Integration in a Liberal Education ContextM. Nauman Farooqi and Rosemary PolegatoYou Go Girl!: Watching Oprah in KuwaitShaheed Mohammed and Mary QueenHow Far is a Small Truth from a Huge Lie?On Making Corruption an Honor Ralph PalliamA Cross-Cultural Model of Innovation:An Exploratory Study Mourad Dakhli and Wade DanisThe Green Transportation:Does Color Make a Difference in Mobility, Sustainabilityand Environmental Management Philbert SureshIran, the US, and Highly Enriched UraniumShareefa Al-AdwaniMy SCORE, Our MATCH:Community Partnerships for Learning and GrowthChristine and Christopher PiconeEconomic and Cultural Developments in KuwaitCompared to Other Gulf States: A Public OpinionSurvey Mohsen BagniedPanel Discussion: Labor Market Dynamics in Kuwait:A Multi-Perspective Approach Mourad Dakhli153 Contributors1
2Establishing a Liberal ArtsTradition in Kuwait.Marina Tolmacheva / PresidentAmerican University of KuwaitThis volume of AUK® Occasional Papers contains paperspresented at the Second Liberal Arts Conference atAmerican University of Kuwait held in May 2007.With the second conference following upon the2006 AUK conference on Liberal Arts and Business,we aim to establish a tradition of academic discourseon liberal education in the Gulf. Readers will noticethat while the topics of the papers are very diverse,as is appropriate to the scholarship of faculty at aliberal-arts college, the dominant themes are multi- andcross-cultural phenomena and the Kuwait contextof the presented research. Among the conferenceparticipants were also John and Helene Rassias, ofDartmouth College and the Rassias Foundation inHanover, New Hampshire, USA. John Rassias isrecognized world-wide as the creator of the Rassiasmethod of foreign language instruction. AUK is proudto be the first institution in the Gulf region to offerJohn Rassias an opportunity to present to Kuwaitiaudiences his method of building language skillson a foundation of intercultural understanding andcommunication, both important aspects of contemporaryliberal-arts education.The Arabian Gulf education sector appears to be eagerto emulate the American model of higher educationin pursuit of the observed success of Knowledgeeconomies. American institutions of higher educationhave been producing employable graduates, successfulbusinessmen and entrepreneurs, and competentprofessionals, teachers, and researchers who arethe productive force behind the massive amountsof highly sophisticated research, publications, andcreative works. However, historically the ArabianGulf region has been profoundly influenced by theBritish model of higher education which precededthe introduction of the American model. Americanuniversities evolved in a different pattern from theEuropean system, which divided educational andresearch tasks among select universities, professionalinstitutes, and Academies of Sciences.New universities in the Gulf are expected (in Kuwait,required) to have a foreign partner institution ofhigher learning as a guarantor of academic qualityand integrity; international institutional and programaccreditation is expected as well. American partnersare expected of American-model local institutions.Founded in 2004, American University of Kuwaitis an independent, private, equal opportunity, andco-educational institution of higher education dedicatedto offering our students a quality education basedon the American model of a liberal-arts college – suchas Dartmouth College, with whom AUK has acomprehensive Memorandum of Understanding.In 2004 Dartmouth, recognized as one of the topnational American universities and famous for itscommitment to liberal-arts education, hosted aconference titled “The Liberal Education: Deador Alive?” The keynote conference speaker wasRaimond Gaita, a philosophy professor of King’sCollege London. He told an anecdote about theThatcher years when universities felt under siegefrom the market-oriented conservative government.King’s College faculty told a junior governmentminister they had invited that if a university eliminatedits philosophy department, it couldn’t be called auniversity. “That’s OK,” the minister replied. “We’llcall it something else.”The aspiration of the Gulf states to quickly developknowledge-based economies brings into question therole assigned to the institutions and practitioners ofhigher education in achieving this goal. American
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58REFERENCESAmason, A. (1996) ‘Di
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64Table Kuwait Fact Profile on Tran
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Table Transportation and Associated
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7219. Stratford,A. (1974). Airports
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80Iran, the US, and HighlyEnriched
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8450% of the population is astonish
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88George W. Bush’s State of the U
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100Foucault, Michel. “What are th
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104My SCORE, OurMATCH: CommunityPar
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REFERENCESBryce, J, Frigo, T, McKen
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13811. What do you think about the
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140Conditions of Kuwaiti Dependence
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Christine PiconeAustralian College
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