Advancing the Strategic Plan 2020 - Spring 2018

GUIDING ASPIRATION
ENHACE VISIBILITY AND IMPACT THROUGH GLOBAL
ENGAGEMENT
“UTA will engage with communities and issues
on local, national, and international scales,
becoming the ‘go-to’ institution for thought
leadership and knowledge.”
UTA CHINA ALUMNI
MAKING AN IMPACT
UTA has agreements
approved by the Chinese
Ministry of Education
with three Chinese
universities—two of them
among the top 10 in China, in X’ian and Shanghai—
to offer Executive MBA programs to rising Chinese
executives and leaders. Close to 3,000 UTA graduates
now hold key leadership positions in the Chinese
government, multinational corporations, and industries
such as banking, oil, steel, transportation, and nuclear
energy. Chinese UTA alumni include the chief financial
officer of McDonalds China, the president of the China
Railway Group, the executive vice president of Shanghai
Electric, and the president and senior economist of
the China Nuclear Energy Corporation, among many
others. UTA has also successfully expanded the EMBA
program to Taiwan, which has produced close to 400
UTA graduates, and is considering expanding to other
Southeast Asian nations.
NEW VICE PROVOST FOR
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
The University recently hired
Curtis Arthur Andressen as its
first vice provost for international
affairs. The new position in the
Office of the Provost was created
to bolster UTA’s international efforts. In his capacity as
vice provost, Dr. Andressen—who comes to UTA from
Qatar University, where he served as the Marubeni
Chair in Social Sciences—will be responsible for the
development and oversight of University initiatives and
global partnerships. He will also work to advance the
international profile and reputation of the University
by enhancing the number and quality of international
students attending UTA, attracting distinguished
international faculty and staff, collaborating with global
education units, and developing a wide array of strategic
partnerships that promote globalization within the UTA
community.
UTA’S SUSTAINABILITY WINTER
SCHOOL
Twenty countries were represented at the 2018
winter school run by UTA’s Solid Waste Institute
for Sustainability. (Its director, Professor Sahadat
Hossain, is pictured at right.) This brings global
enrollment during the school’s short history to
62 countries, whose representatives take the knowledge learned
here at UTA and employ it back home. Subjects included landfill
design and management, waste economics, and landfill gas-toenergy
technology. Attendees also enjoyed a panel discussion on
sustainable waste management that included officials from the
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the EPA, the World
Bank, and the International Solid Waste Association.