PRESIDENT'S REPORT 2020 | OUR FIRST 50

CELEBRATING OUR FIRST 50

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ACADEMIC PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES

The Eitan Scholarship Program for outstanding students is a new accelerated, direct undergraduate-to-master's degree program allowing students to build individualized study programs, under the supervision of an academic mentor, in a collaborative setting designed to foster research inter-disciplinarity and excellence . The Computing Division launched Virtual Classrooms , a new system enabling academic departments to operate teaching programs from all the classrooms on campus and from every computer on the University network. The Dept. of Emergency Medicine offered the first course in Israel focusing on Ultrasound Studies. The digital version of the Heksherim Lexicon of Israeli Literature was published online. It includes 1,355 entries on literature created since 1948.

 Communications ministers and regulators, and CEOs of communications companies from around the world participated in the 'Communications in the Cyber Era Global Program for Regulators' in conjunction with Cybertech 2020

A new school was established for Electrical and Computer Engineering , which offers three study programs for bachelor’s degrees: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Communications Systems Engineering. For the first time in Israeli academia, BGU’s Dept. of Middle East Studies introduced a new approach to teaching Arabic in Arabic , which integrates spoken and literary Arabic. The Council for Higher Education recently approved an increase in the number of students to be accepted for nursing studies at BGU, adding an extra 50 places each year. The Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management received EQUIS accreditation .