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In the first week of December 2013, the Anatolia School of Business devoted organized the “Creativity Week” which was a series of seminar events and workshops on the topic of creativity that took place in Thessaloniki and Athens.
On Wednesday, November 27th, Popi Asteriadou, Head of the News Department at TV100, the Municipal Television of Thessaloniki, gave a lecture entitled "Documenting an elusive presence: A film on Auschwictz-Birkenau," for the benefit of NUin, Study Abroad, and degree students at ACT. The event was co-organised by ACT professors Nikos Dimitriadis and Maria Kyriakidou under the auspices of the Michael and Kitty Dukakis Center for Public and Humanitarian Service.
"Getting up early for my teaching internship and being at my best gave me a sense of responsibility... Teaching is my calling and I feel I should be in a classroom all the time, doing something related to that...My family does not have a lot of money. My parent always valued education. I would not be here if I didn't have great teachers pushing me and encouraging me... My favorite part in volunteering was working one on one with Konstantinos. He becomes very distracted in class and benefits from individual attention.
In September 2013, for the second year in a row, ACT held the Scholarship Competition in the Bissell Library by providing 3 full scholarships for the academic year 2013-2014 (2 scholarships for undergraduate and 1 for MBA studies). In this way, ACT provides an educational opportunity for exceptional students who want to study at ACT and pursue a globally recognized degree which is both US and EU validated. The test was an aptitude test, not a knowledge test, and therefore, no special preparation was required. It assessed the students’ abilitiy to do well in pursuing a degree at ACT.
As part of the Service Learning Program at ACT, on two consecutive Saturdays, the 28th of September and 5th October, a group of 80 ACT students helped clean up the Gardens of Pasa in Ano Poli, Thessaloniki.
This projects was organized by the YMCA as part of their «Είμαι Πολίτης και Όχι Απλά Κάτοικος» (I'm a citizen, not only a resident) project, in collaboration with the offices of the Municipality of Thessaloniki in charge of the urban environment.
Το Ελληνο-Αμερικανικό Εμπορικό Επιμελητήριο και το Anatolia School of Business, σας προσκαλούν στο 3ο MIW Forum που θα πραγματοποιηθεί στη βιβλιοθήκη Bissell του American College of Thessaloniki (ACT), την Πέμπτη 10 Οκτωβρίου 2013 από τις 15.00 έως τις 20.00.
Η διοργάνωση του forum αποτελεί μέρος μίας σειράς ενεργειών που λαμβάνουν χώρα με πρωτοβουλία της Επιτροπής Καινοτομίας, Εκπαίδευσης και Επιχειρηματικότητας του Ελληνο-Αμερικανικού Εμπορικού Επιμελητηρίου, με στόχο την προώθηση και επιχειρηματική ανάπτυξη της καινοτομίας στην Ελλάδα.
For the second summer in a row, the Birthright Program that is run by the Panhellenic Scholarship Foundation, based in Chicago, allocated 20 full scholarships, to Greek Heritage students of high academic standing, giving them the opportunity to study for 5weeks in Thessaloniki at ACT.These students took part in the Pella Projcet, a study abroad program which offers a combination of studies and intensive travel.
You may have glimpsed him wandering around the campus this past year, tall, bearded, looking more like an ancient philosopher than an expert in European integration.
Simon Bensasson, Anatolia Class of 1963, recently retired from a senior position at the European Commission, has spent 2012-13 as the Dukakis Visiting Professor in Public Policy, responsible for teaching senior seminars in advanced journalism and European politics, and representing ACT and the Dukakis Center at public functions.
During the ACT commencement ceremony that took place on July 2nd , graduates celebrated the end of an exciting academic life at ACT, the turning of a page and the opening of a new chapter in their life.
Keynote remarks were delivered by Vasilis Tsamis, Chief Operating & Co-Chief Investment Officer of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation who underlined the exciting task the graduates have ahead of them, the task of doing things better, faster and smarter than were ever done before.
The Dukakis Center hosted a variety of events and developed new capacities during the spring 2013 semester at ACT. Building on the success of the December 2012 Business and Politics Forum, and the November 2011 Dukakis International Symposium, the Center hosted a trio of distinguished seminar series lecturers on the theme of reform in Greek politics.
