Arizona Scholars Link Up With Armenia

ARIZONA SCHOLARS LINK UP WITH ARMENIA

Published: Wednesday June 20, 2012

ASU students listen an Armenian student via Skype.

Tempe, Ariz. – Scholars from Arizona State University’s Leadership
Scholar Program and Yerevan’s Leadership School in Armenia held a
joint teleconference.

On May 16, thousands of miles and hours apart, a group of American and
Armenian scholars conversed about civic responsibility and leadership.

The teleconference was organized by ASU sophomore Tro Panosian and
Samvel Movsisyan of LS Armenia. The event was moderated by Assistant
Dean to the WP Carey School of Business at ASU, Tim Desch, and Anush
Kostanyan of Armenia’s Leadership School.

Panosian, a student of Arizona State University, was contacted through
the professional networking site LinkedIn (by way of mutual contacts)
by Movsisyan, who is the founder of the Leadership School in Armenia.

The Leadership School Foundation is a non-political, non-religiously
affiliated organization that gathers university-level students and
teaches skills in leadership and civic responsibility in a hope to
better educate and involve Armenian youth in creating a bright future
for the country. The Leadership School has had regular teleconferences
in the past with prominent Armenian leaders, such as Ken Hachikian, and
additional prestigious schools such as the London School of Economics.

After deciding that a teleconference would be beneficial and
enlightening for students in the United States and in Armenia,
both Panosian and Movsisyan coordinated, gathered students
involved in leadership in their respective schools, and arranged
the teleconference. There was an approximate total of 30 students
represented at the virtual summit.

During the hour-long session, arranged through Skype, the students
engaged in a fruitful dialogue about leadership, educated one another
in their corresponding perspectives of leadership, and discussed
exemplary leaders, trends in leadership, how to lead in a constantly
evolving world, and the role of education in developing leaders and
building an economy.

Students in Arizona and Armenia hope to continue the relationship
between schools, and to host future teleconferences on a wide array
of topics that relate to civic responsibility, leadership, economic
growth, and the role of education in the modern world.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress