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Leaders With Heart: Meet Moustafa Ezz of Huron University at Western The PilotEd Podcast
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Welcome back listeners! Series 2, Ep1 opens with Moustafa Ezz, Director of International Recruitment & Strategy at Huron at Western University in Ontario, Canada.
I met Moustafa a little in pre-COVID times at the 2019 CIS Conference in Bilbao, when PilotEd was a nascent idea that had not been fully formed yet. In Moustafa’s conference session he spoke passionately about access to international education for those without the means to attend elite universities, and the need for this to be an institutional priority for other colleges like his own. I was impressed back then by the financial support that Huron were offering to their successful high -achieving, low -income students. A recent piece of amazing news about his work to extend opportunity to the brightest and best can be found here: https://vimeo.com/548966471
Moustafa’s perspective is one that has been informed by both his own international school experience and his first hand understanding of inequality and deep injustices he witnessed growing up in the Gulf. Knowing more about his past and what it means for the non-traditional students recruited by his team, we can ensure that in lesser-seen, or lesser-visited parts of their world, innovation and adaptation in a post-COVID world can continue. Admissions conversations can and must remain global despite flights being largely grounded, because talent is still evenly distributed even if opportunities are not. We may however have to re-imagine what college looks like, at least in the short term. Leaders like Moustafa help to lay down the gauntlet for colleagues in international recruitment. Huron’s website says that their liberal arts and ethics curriculum aims to give personalized learning experiences to students while also developing their character, and that the result is students who are formidable Leaders with Heart who care about the people and world around them. With Leaders like Moustafa at the helm, they are sure to fulfill that mission.
You can follow Moustafa on Twitter @MoustafaHuronUC and on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/moustafaezz/
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Welcome back listeners! Series 2, Ep1 opens with Moustafa Ezz, Director of International Recruitment & Strategy at Huron at Western University in Ontario, Canada.
I met Moustafa a little in pre-COVID times at the 2019 CIS Conference in Bilbao, when PilotEd was a nascent idea that had not been fully formed yet. In Moustafa’s conference session he spoke passionately about access to international education for those without the means to attend elite universities, and the need for this to be an institutional priority for other colleges like his own. I was impressed back then by the financial support that Huron were offering to their successful high -achieving, low -income students. A recent piece of amazing news about his work to extend opportunity to the brightest and best can be found here: https://vimeo.com/548966471
Moustafa’s perspective is one that has been informed by both his own international school experience and his first hand understanding of inequality and deep injustices he witnessed growing up in the Gulf. Knowing more about his past and what it means for the non-traditional students recruited by his team, we can ensure that in lesser-seen, or lesser-visited parts of their world, innovation and adaptation in a post-COVID world can continue. Admissions conversations can and must remain global despite flights being largely grounded, because talent is still evenly distributed even if opportunities are not. We may however have to re-imagine what college looks like, at least in the short term. Leaders like Moustafa help to lay down the gauntlet for colleagues in international recruitment. Huron’s website says that their liberal arts and ethics curriculum aims to give personalized learning experiences to students while also developing their character, and that the result is students who are formidable Leaders with Heart who care about the people and world around them. With Leaders like Moustafa at the helm, they are sure to fulfill that mission.
You can follow Moustafa on Twitter @MoustafaHuronUC and on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/moustafaezz/
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