UL, Jindal Global University Signed MOU
Tuesday, 10 September 2013 00:00 Ethel A. Tweh
The President of the state -run University, Dr. Emmett Dennis and the Vice Chancellor of the O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) professor Dr. C. Raj Kumar on Saturday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for partnership between the two universities.Components of the MOU would include a student exchange between the two universities-that is five students from the JGU will be sent for Masters level program per year at the University of Liberia, while UL will in return also send five students at JGU for Masters’ Program. Both (UL&JGU) further agreed to exchange two students each for Bachelors degree level, a dispatch from India said.
The MOU also stated that both institutions will jointly plan conferences on academic issues of mutual interest identified by both members and deans of the universities.
The MOU also includes a faculty exchange program between the two universities.
The Dispatch also indicates that both universities undertake to co-publish policy-relevant monographs or edited volumes that fit the intersecting research interests of faculty members of the two sides while the various academic journals published by both universities would regularly feature articles authored by faculty members of both universities.
The UL and the JGU will develop a summer internship program in India for UL graduates and the UL will do likewise for JGU’s postgraduate students in Liberia.
Dr. Emmett Dennis was earlier received by the university’s registrar Professor Y.S.R Murthy and led to the Vice Chancellor C. Raj Kumar and made a tour on the university’s campus and facilities.
Earlier, Dr. Dennis was received was received by the university’s registrar, Professor Y. S. R. Murthy and led to the Vice Chancellor, Professor Dr. C. Raj Kumar for a meeting and a guided tour of the university’s campus and facilities.
Dr. Dennis briefed Vice Chancellor Kumar about efforts currently being pursued by the UL aimed at seeking collaboration with higher institutions of learning around the world, expand the capacities of the faculty and staff, seek opportunities for graduate studies and for assistance from the JGU in realizing the goal of transforming the Foreign Service Institute at the Foreign Ministry into a graduate degree granting program in international law and diplomacy under the IBB Graduate School of International Studies at the UL.
He appealed for professors, curriculum development, partnership and collaboration in this regard. He then extended a special invitation to the JGU’s Vice Chancellor to visit Liberia later this year.
For his part, the Vice Chancellor of the JGU, Professor Dr. C. Raj Kumar thanked Dr. Dennis for the visit and highlighted India’s desire to always be of help to the African continent, particularly post-conflict nations.
He also informed the UL President that JGU has been authorized to begin a one-year LLM Program in Law that could accept law graduates from the UL for graduate degree. Dr. Kumar accepted the invitation of Dr. Dennis to visit Liberia later this year.
Dr. Dennis, who was accompanied by presidential press secretary, Jerolinmek Matthew Piah to the JGU, was on Monday expected to visit the Delhi University. O. P. Jindal Global University (JGU) is a non-profit Global University established by the Haryana private universities.
The university which is a private university promoting public service is established in memory of Mr. O. P. Jindal as a philanthropic initiative of Mr. Naveen Jindal, the founding Chancellor. The university is situated on an 80-acre state-of–the-art residential campus in the National Capital Region of Delhi and is one of few universities in Asia that maintains a 1:15 faculty-student ratio and appoints faculty members from different parts of the world with outstanding academic qualifications and experience.
It has five schools: Jindal Global Law School, Jindal Global Business School, Jindal School of International Affairs, Jindal School of Government and Public Policy and Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities.
There are currently seven Liberians enrolled at the university with full scholarship from the university. Transportation to begin the studies was provided by the Government of Liberia.
The UL and the JGU will develop a summer internship program in India for UL graduates and the UL will do likewise for JGU’s postgraduate students in Liberia.
Dr. Emmett Dennis was earlier received by the university’s registrar Professor Y.S.R Murthy and led to the Vice Chancellor C. Raj Kumar and made a tour on the university’s campus and facilities.
Earlier, Dr. Dennis was received was received by the university’s registrar, Professor Y. S. R. Murthy and led to the Vice Chancellor, Professor Dr. C. Raj Kumar for a meeting and a guided tour of the university’s campus and facilities.
Dr. Dennis briefed Vice Chancellor Kumar about efforts currently being pursued by the UL aimed at seeking collaboration with higher institutions of learning around the world, expand the capacities of the faculty and staff, seek opportunities for graduate studies and for assistance from the JGU in realizing the goal of transforming the Foreign Service Institute at the Foreign Ministry into a graduate degree granting program in international law and diplomacy under the IBB Graduate School of International Studies at the UL.
He appealed for professors, curriculum development, partnership and collaboration in this regard. He then extended a special invitation to the JGU’s Vice Chancellor to visit Liberia later this year.
For his part, the Vice Chancellor of the JGU, Professor Dr. C. Raj Kumar thanked Dr. Dennis for the visit and highlighted India’s desire to always be of help to the African continent, particularly post-conflict nations.
He also informed the UL President that JGU has been authorized to begin a one-year LLM Program in Law that could accept law graduates from the UL for graduate degree. Dr. Kumar accepted the invitation of Dr. Dennis to visit Liberia later this year.
Dr. Dennis, who was accompanied by presidential press secretary, Jerolinmek Matthew Piah to the JGU, was on Monday expected to visit the Delhi University. O. P. Jindal Global University (JGU) is a non-profit Global University established by the Haryana private universities.
The university which is a private university promoting public service is established in memory of Mr. O. P. Jindal as a philanthropic initiative of Mr. Naveen Jindal, the founding Chancellor. The university is situated on an 80-acre state-of–the-art residential campus in the National Capital Region of Delhi and is one of few universities in Asia that maintains a 1:15 faculty-student ratio and appoints faculty members from different parts of the world with outstanding academic qualifications and experience.
It has five schools: Jindal Global Law School, Jindal Global Business School, Jindal School of International Affairs, Jindal School of Government and Public Policy and Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities.
There are currently seven Liberians enrolled at the university with full scholarship from the university. Transportation to begin the studies was provided by the Government of Liberia.