{"id":2153,"date":"2021-09-02T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=2153"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:28:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T07:28:37","slug":"chancellor-welcomes-students-back-to-hybrid-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2021\/09\/02\/chancellor-welcomes-students-back-to-hybrid-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Chancellor welcomes students back to &#8220;hybrid&#8221; environment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Haidy Abdelazim<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 Newly installed American University of Sharjah Chancellor Dr. Susan Mumm welcomed students and faculty in a Sept. 1 email, thanking the community for a successful beginning to the academic year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mumm welcomed the return of activity to campus while acknowledging the unusual atmosphere of hybrid teaching, citing \u201cthe unique blend of new and familiar that the academic year brings.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She added that while AUS\u2019s annual pattern is new to her, she is appreciative of the university\u2019s traditions and history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The chancellor said that her goal is \u201cto knit together our priorities and our aspirations with the vision of our Founder [University President and Sharjah Ruler His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi] in order to lift this unique university to even greater heights.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the AUS website, Mumm received a bachelor\u2019s degree in English and history and a master\u2019s degree in history from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, and a doctorate in history from the University of Sussex, UK. Prior to joining AUS, she worked as dean of arts and science at Queen\u2019s University in Kingston, UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Haidy Abdelazim UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 Newly installed American University of Sharjah Chancellor Dr. Susan Mumm welcomed students and faculty in a Sept. 1 email, thanking the community for a successful beginning to the academic year. Mumm welcomed the return of activity to campus while acknowledging the unusual atmosphere of hybrid teaching, citing \u201cthe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-2153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-aus","9":"tag-community"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}