The President of Yarmouk University, Dr. Islam Massad, met with the U.S. Ambassador to Jordan Henry T. Wooster, during his visit to the university to discuss ways to enhance cooperation between Yarmouk and various American higher education institutions.
At the beginning of the meeting, Massad affirmed Yarmouk's keenness to strengthen the prospects for joint cooperation between Yarmouk and the U.S. Embassy in Amman, which would create opportunities for scientific, research and academic cooperation with American universities and educational institutes in various fields, pointing to the deep interest of the university administration in consolidating ways of cooperation with the American educational authorities, given the university students' interest to complete their academic studies in prestigious American universities, noting that a large percentage of the university's faculty members are graduates of the United States of America.
He pointed out that Yarmouk is ready to receive students from the United States of America who wish to learn Arabic for non-native speakers, through a program dedicated to that offered by the Language Center at the university, which includes competencies capable of teaching Arabic using modern methods that ensure students' mastery of the basic skills of the Arabic language.
The U.S. Ambassador Wooster stressed the Embassy's keenness to strengthen the ties of American-Jordanian cooperation in many fields, the most important of which are scientific, academic, and cultural, pointing out that cooperation and communication with Yarmouk University would provide opportunities for students and faculty members at the university to obtain scholarships to complete their academic studies or make scientific visits to various American universities and institutes, in addition to the possibility of cooperation between the embassy and Yarmouk in implementing a range of cultural and linguistic activities inside the university campus.
