In May 2018, the University of Central Florida established a reciprocal exchange program with the American University in Cairo. This partnership with AUC offers students from both institutions the unique opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of each other’s cultures. By exploring their differences, they discover commonalities that bring people closer together.
The UCF students participating in the exchange program at AUC are supported by their benefactors, Jonathan and Nancy Wolf. The Wolfs’ generosity in sponsoring UCF students to study at AUC has been instrumental in creating scholarships that help offset the costs of housing, board, and incidental expenses. As UCF donors, the Wolfs have enabled UCF students in Business, Political Science, Engineering, and other disciplines to broaden their academic perspectives through this program.
As part of the Wolf family donation, Global Perspectives and International Initiatives (GPII) has taken the lead in implementing a faculty exchange program with AUC which has seen numerous visits between Orlando and Cairo over the past 6 years. GPII has also worked with AUC to organize and cohost several events in Orlando, Cairo, and Washington. GPII Executive Director has led five faculty delegation visits personally, and has participated as a speaker at several AUC-UCF events – including on American foreign policy, the ongoing conflict in the Middle East between Israel and Hamas, U.S.-Arab relations, and the implications of U.S. politics regional and global order. GPII also has helped publish numerous articles in AUC’s prestigious Cairo Review of Global Affairs, including providing the bulk of content for a special climate change issue that coincided with Egypt hosting the UN Climate Summit in Sharm El Sheikh in November 2022. Dumke also taught political science at AUC as a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Fall 2023 Semester, and currently is working with AUC’s School of Global Affairs and Public Policy to establish a Conflict Transformation Program.
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