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Ghayath Abbas, Director

Ghayath Abbas

Director·American University in the Emirates

United Arab Emirates

Master's degree, MBA

Work experience

Total years of experience: 16 years, 4 months

Director

January 2014 - Present

American University in the Emirates

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

January 2014 - Present

Pre-Initial Accreditation
Develop a market research proposal for the envisioned academic program, identify the students’ segment, write and manage the distribution of surveys and questionnaires, organize focus groups of the potential employers, analyze and develop result into feasibility decision support report.

National initial accreditation - CAA
Guide the initial accreditation process for new programs in compliance with national standards of the Commission of Academic Accreditation (CAA) in coordination with the academic and administrative units.
Re-accreditation - CAA
Lead the re-accreditation process for existing programs in compliance with national standards of the Commission of Academic Accreditation (CAA)in coordination with the academic and administrative units.

Re-licensure - CAA
Lead the re-licensure process for the institution with CAA standards in coordination with the academic and administrative units.

Regional ACCREDITATION - Institutional
Lead the initial accreditation process for regional accreditation, starting by application, self-study submission, response to requirements and prepare for the site visit.

International Programmatic Accreditation
Participate in developing self-study reports for AACSB, ABET and IAFIE compliance standards


•Institutional Special Projects

Establish New College
Work with the academic team to form a new College, coordinate logistics, plan constraints and impact analysis that lead to complete substantive report.

Improve faculty happiness / retention
Through research and institutional analysis, developed the institutional-faculty happiness / retention framework, and implemented the improvements of the institution’s strategic plan.

Redefine annual faculty evaluation process
Worked with institution-wide staff to redefine a comprehensive mechanism for faculty evaluation.

Develop knowledge management medium
Worked with IT staff to develop a shared framework of information and knowledge sharing, retention and management for the institution.

Streamline research output
Coordinate with units’ research committees to establish an approved list of recognized list of journals and conferences for faculty publications, that contribute to institutional ranking, and make research metadata available for all.

Optimize spending
Through institutional research, and findings; suggestion and implementation for outsourcing non-mission driven services that contribute to staffing reduction and minimize overhead.

Direct faculty recruitment
Identifying the faculty need, desired profiles, and specialties; and participate in the screening workgroup.


•Institutional Effectiveness processes

Program effectiveness
Working with program directors and focus group to ensure program effectiveness through continuous improvement process. Review and validate (within related academic committees) course learning outcomes, Student learning outcomes and program learning outcomes. Ensure consistency (within related academic committees) of course syllabus, prerequisites, outlines, learning resources, and instructional software, and facilitate improvements through the appropriate procedures.
Examine the consistency of program length, admission/selection requirements, and completion requirements for programs.

Academic Unit effectiveness
Working with Unit heads to ensure unit’s alignment with the institution, effectively achieve its purpose, projects and ongoing operations though unit strategic plan, annual operational plan, initiatives and appropriate reflection on budget.

Management Decision support

Support the governance board
Prepare and develop ad-hoc reports according to the agenda topics aided by infographic presentation that support decision for the board members.

Support the management
Information that support the president/chancellor, provost, and other academic directors’ decision are supported by appropriate rationale, institutional intelligence, impact analysis, and benchmarking.

Company industry:
Primary, Prep, & Secondary School
Job role:
Management

Project Manager

August 2008 - May 2012

emaratech

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

August 2008 - May 2012

Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects
Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget
Developing project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
Ensure resource availability and allocation
Develop a detailed project plan to track progress
Use appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule and costs
Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques
Report and escalate to management as needed
Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders
Perform risk management to minimize project risks
Establish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendors
Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation

Company industry:
IT Services
Job role:
Information Technology

Education

American University in the Emirates

May 2019

May 2019

Master's degree, MBA

United Arab Emirates

GPA (point): 3.5 out of 4

GPA (point): 3.5 out of 4

Jordan University of Science and technology

January 2005

January 2005

Bachelor's degree, Information System

Jordan

Southern Illionis University

January 2003

January 2003

Diploma, Leadership and Government

United States

Skills

Management

Expert

Quality Assurance

Expert

Agile Project Management

Expert

Accreditation

Expert

Institutional Effectiveness

Expert

Management Administration

Expert

Benchmarking Process

Expert

Budgeting

Intermediate

Academic Writing

Expert

Continuous Improvement

Expert

Support Decision Making

Expert

Software Management

Expert

Agile Development

Expert

Future Foresight

Intermediate

Knowledge Management

Intermediate

Management

Expert

Quality Assurance

Expert

Agile Project Management

Expert

Accreditation

Expert

Languages

Arabic

Native Speaker

English

Expert

Training and Certifications

Certifications
TOEFL
Jan 2015
Agile Certified Practitioner
Feb 2015 - Feb 2019

Training
SACS-COC Application Workshop
SACS-COC - USA
Mar 2016
AACSB training
AACSB
Nov 2017