Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar celebrates 10 years
Above: VCUQatar Founding Director and inaugural faculty.
Doha (Qatar) - Today, in celebration of its 10 year anniversary, Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, an Icograda Education member and organiser of the upcoming Icograda Design Week in Qatar 2009, hosted a special presentation, entitled "VCUQatar in the Beginning."
For this event, the Founding Director and inaugural faculty were brought from around the world to Doha, Qatar, to speak about the partnership with the Qatar Foundation in 1997 and the initial challenges they overcame when they began classes in 1998.
In August 1997, representatives of the Qatar Foundation visited Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), in Richmond, United States, with an invitation to open a design school in Doha, Qatar. A VCU delegation came to Qatar in November to meet with Sheikha Mozah and an agreement was made to establish the Shaqab College of Design Arts (SCODA) in December of 1998.
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