{"id":4706,"date":"2023-10-16T10:29:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T06:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=4706"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:46:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:46:51","slug":"ixo-welcomes-29-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2023\/10\/16\/ixo-welcomes-29-students\/","title":{"rendered":"IXO welcomes 29 students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Emmy Yacoub<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 American University of Sharjah\u2019s International Exchange Office currently has 29 students, which is nine more than the previous semester, said IXO Director Colby Seay.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said more people have been participating in the program as life is returning to normal after the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u201cTo date, we have had over 930&nbsp;students&nbsp;study abroad at AUS,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The director added that IXO will \u201chost social events regularly and are always finding ways for the study abroad students to engage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seay said the students\u2019 nationalities vary from countries such as the United States, Hong Kong, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and others. The program participants tend to come from institutions in Europe and the U.S., he said. Seay added that IXO\u2019s partners are located in those areas and East Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Dea Dycaj, a Catholic University of Milan exchange student, her experience at AUS has been different from Italy where students listen to the professor lecture but not participate. She said although she isn\u2019t used to this active and participatory environment, she adapted to it quickly and enjoys it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI really like the people here,\u201d Dycaj added. \u201cI feel like here is way easier to make friends.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Emmy Yacoub UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 American University of Sharjah\u2019s International Exchange Office currently has 29 students, which is nine more than the previous semester, said IXO Director Colby Seay.&nbsp; He said more people have been participating in the program as life is returning to normal after the COVID-19 pandemic. &nbsp;\u201cTo date, we have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,32,17,27],"class_list":["post-4706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-campus-news","tag-aus","tag-campus","tag-community","tag-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}