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Glendale Community College to offer more Armenian language courses

March 23, 2018 By administrator

Glendale Community College

Starting next fall, it will be possible to earn an Armenian language associate’s degree or an Armenian language certificate at Glendale Community College, Glendale News-Press reports.

Completion of either requires 18 units starting with a beginning Armenian I class or Armenian for the Armenian speaking I class. Outside of three grammatical courses, students will have electives from which to choose, consisting of ancient and medieval Armenian literature, Armenian literature in the Enlightenment Era, 20th- and 21st-century Armenian literature, Armenian history and the Armenian diaspora (which are currently available).

As of this spring, Glendale Community College offers only three language degree programs: an associate’s degree, an associate’s degree for transfer in English and an associate’s degree for transfer in Spanish. That is despite 31% of credit students attending the local college identifying with Armenian ethnicity, according to 2016 figures.

The new classes brought immediate praise from one local group.

“We wanted to let you know that we are very excited about the additions to your curriculum in regards to the certificate and the new associate degrees in languages,” said Ida Bobayan, board member of the Glendale chapter of the Armenian National Committee of America, “especially the Armenian language.”

In total, eleven new programs, 18 first-time courses, and 19 revisions have been unanimously voted to be added to the Glendale Community College 2018-19 curriculum.

Along those lines, there will be both new associate’s degrees and certificate programs in French, Japanese, Spanish and Italian.

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Glendale News-Press. New language courses to debut this fall at Glendale Community College

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: college, community, Glendale

Armenia: UWC Dilijan College hosts Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2016

August 26, 2016 By administrator

Dilijan-collegeOn 27–29 August UWC Dilijan College in Armenia will host the 5th annual meeting of the Central and Eastern Europe Wikimedia affiliates, Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2016 (#WMCEE2016), organized by Wikimedia Armenia and the Wikimedia Foundation and supported by the Scholae Mundi Armenia Foundation.

The meeting will bring together leading professionals from the most important fields of the Wikimedia movement, as well as officials from the Wikimedia Foundation led by the Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Katherine Maher who will take part in this conference for the first time.

Participants from 27 countries, including Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Iran, Israel, Latvia, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Turkey, Ukraine and the USA will gather at UWC Dilijan College in order to discuss topical issues in the Wiki movement.

During the three-day meeting, participants will present the activities undertaken in their Wikimedia affiliates, and the Wikimedia Foundation representatives will present free/open source software news, examining the social and technical aspects of the topics in relation to free knowledge and free content.

“Wikimedia CEE Meeting in Armenia became possible due to the hard work of the Armenian wiki-community. This conference is very significant both for Wikimedia Armenia and UWC Dilijan. I hope that after the conference the college students will also contribute to Wikipedia, editing in their native languages. I hope that our collaboration with the Scholae Mundi Armenia Foundation will continue with new initiatives”, said Susanna Mkrtchyan, the president and co-founder of Wikimedia Armenia.

The meeting is a unique opportunity for the Armenian Wiki community to learn more about the Wikimedia movement, to show what programmes are being implemented in Armenia and to exchange experience.

“It’s a great honour for us that UWC Dilijan College is hosting such a significant conference for Wikimedia, in which the technology of equal access to a quality education in Armenia will form part of the discussion. We hope that the cooperation of the Scholae Mundi Armenia and Wikimedia Armenia foundations will lay the groundwork for further disseminating the world’s best educational practices in the country”, said Veronika Zonabend, co-founder of Scholae Mundi Armenia

Filed Under: Articles, Events Tagged With: Armenia: UWC, college, Dilijan

California college students thank the soldiers of Artsakh

August 14, 2016 By administrator

Armenian Sitestudent-thanks soldiers Hetq published the drawings and thanks to American-Armenian schoolchildren fifth class given to young soldiers of Artsakh.

Dear soldiers, I wish you success. I hope you will defend our land. You spend your life for the country, so the Karabakh, Artsakh and Armenia are still with us. With love. Ani Mardirossian.

Dear fellow Armenian. You are doing a very important job because you are always fighting for us. You bring us happiness when we hear that you left your families to fight for us. With love. Eva Mansourian.

I am grateful because you defend our country so well. You are very brave because you sacrifice your life for us. I love you all. Lucy Gouljian

Hello, my name is Garen and I appreciate that you protect the Armenians. I think about you all the time soldiers and pray that you stay safe. Garen Minassian

Thank you to fight for us and our country and against the Azeris. Love, Alex Kechedjian.

Photos: Hakob Poghosyan

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Erdogan May Have to Resign If His College Diploma is Fake

June 22, 2016 By administrator

Harut Sassounian

Harut Sassounian

BY HARUT SASSOUNIAN,

As if Turkish President Recep Erdogan did not have enough headaches, he now faces a new accusation that he may have forged his college diploma. If true, he would be forced to resign from his presidential seat and possibly go to jail or into exile.

Rumors have been circulating for some time that Erdogan may not have a college degree which would disqualify him from his presidential position according to Article 101 of the Turkish constitution which requires that presidential candidates “have completed higher education.”

Journalist Cengis Candar, in an Al-Monitor.com June 15 article titled: “Is Erdogan’s university diploma forged?” exposes the serious suspicions regarding the validity of the Turkish President’s college diploma.

As Candar explains, “Erdogan went to an imam-hatip school, a high school-level institution that educates religious preachers. During the 1970’s and 1980’s, graduates of those schools could pursue their higher education only in theology.” Nonetheless, when Erdogan ran for President in August 2014, he presented to the Higher Electoral Board a photocopy of his diploma claiming to have received a college degree in 1981 from the Dept. of Economic and Administrative Sciences of Marmara University.

The problem here is that Marmara University was founded only in 1982, making it impossible for Erdogan to have graduated a year before the University came into existence. Since the Dept. of Economics was established only in 1983, Erdogan could not have graduated from that department in 1981, as he claimed. Unfortunately, none of these suspected allegations can be thoroughly investigated in Turkey by the media or civil society in view of the dictatorial nature of the Erdogan regime which routinely shuts down newspapers and prosecutes all opponents.

The President’s aides are adamant that the accusations against Erdogan are not valid, as they emanate from members of opposition parties. The first complaint came from former judge Omer Faruk Eminagaoglu who presented to the Higher Electoral Board his suspicion that Erdogan did have a college degree because of the existing discrepancies in the photocopy of his diploma. The Electoral Board promptly rejected the judge’s appeal.

A second challenge was mounted by extreme Turkish nationalist Gokce Firat who presented detailed arguments to support the claim that Erdogan’s diploma is a forgery. Firat demanded to see Erdogan’s original diploma rather than the photocopy he had submitted to the Higher Electoral Board. The Turkish nationalist accused the President and Dean of Marmara University of aiding and abetting in the crime of forging Erdogan’s diploma. He claimed that the signatures of the President and Dean of Marmara University seen on the copy of Erdogan’s diploma do not match the ones on Firat’s own diploma from the same university. He also questioned the validity of the sequence of the number found on Erdogan’s diploma. Finally, Firat claimed that even the design of the Turkish President’s diploma is different from the ones held by other graduates.

Earlier this month, the pro-Kurdish HDP Party submitted an official parliamentary inquiry, asking Education Minister Ismet Yilmaz “to clarify the mystery surrounding the validity” of Erdogan’s university diploma. In response to a similar request to the Higher Electoral Board, the HDP received a notarized copy of the Turkish President’s diploma. However, the HDP announced that it will continue to challenge the validity of the diploma.

In his article, Cengiz Candar raised serious concerns about Erdogan’s legitimacy as President of Turkey should it be proven that his diploma is forged: “If taken seriously, the follow-up to the controversy could create monumental legal questions in Turkey. If it turns out Erdogan was never qualified to be elected president, whatever he has signed or implemented would have to be considered null and void from a purely legal point of view. Politically, it would provide an armory of ammunition to his critics whose numbers abroad are rapidly increasing. And if Erdogan’s university diploma proves to be a forgery, that would naturally provide ammunition to his international opponents to bring up the argument of whether his title is legitimate.”

While President Erdogan is demanding a DNA test to verify the ethnic origins of the 11 Turkish members of the German Parliament who voted to recognize the Armenian Genocide, it may be more appropriate to carry out a chemical analysis of his diploma. Erdogan should also undergo a psychological examination to evaluate his persistently irrational psychotic behavior!

Filed Under: News Tagged With: college, deploma, Erdogan, fake

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