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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ATHENS – With a constitutional ban on private universities operating and degrees only from Greek colleges accepted for state jobs, the The National Kapodistrian University of Athens will offer a Bachelor of Arts program in Archaeology, History and Literature of Ancient Greece, the first to be taught in English at a Greek public university.
Delegations from the US Embassy and the Fulbright Foundation came to hear how the program, aimed at students outside the European Union, will operate, said Kathimerini.
The four year course curricula was prepared by the Athens Philosophy School and the International Hellenic University. Combining “the strengths of the three disciplines in a single, innovative degree,” it will be taught by senior researchers and specialist scholars.
Courses will start Sept. 1, 2020, inviting students to “study Classical Greece in Athens.” Students will have the opportunity to visit some of the archaeological sites they cover in the curriculum in places such as Crete, Santorini, Delos, Olympia, Delphi, and Vergina. They will also be encouraged to participate in the Departmental Archaeological Excavation in Marathon, which takes place in April and May the following year.
Students who want to learn Modern Greek as a foreign language will have access to the university’s Modern Greek Language Teaching Center, which also offers a range of options for speaking practice and courses in Ancient Greek.
The US Embassy’s cultural attache, Jennifer Schueler, said it would further strengthen already strong ties between the countries.
Athens University Vice Rector Dimitrios Karadimas said there will be collaborations with American colleges who are shut out of Greece, including faculty exchanges that could bring American scholars to teach.
The Fulbright Foundation’s Executive Director, Artemis Zenetou, suggested US professors be invited to teach, the paper said. The noted foundation has awarded scholarships for the 2019-20 academic year, allowing teachers, PhD candidates and postgraduate students to travel to the United States and professors in the US to collaborate in research with their counterparts at Athens University.
The application deadline is March 31, 2020. Tuition fees are 6,000 euros ($6609.30) annually, a smidgeon of the cost at private universities in the United States, less than half that for in-state students at the University of Massachusetts, while the program would welcome those from other countries as well, with those from the Diaspora likely candidates given their heritage.
Students outside the EU’s Schengen Zone, which allows free travel between 26 countries, were advised to apply early to avoid any delays in processing visa although those from Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland do not need a visa to study in Greece.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
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