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Simmons College undergrad students visit Raja Easa Al-Gurg in Easa Saleh Al-Gurg Tower

  • United Arab Emirates: Sunday, June 03 - 2007 at 14:41
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Mrs. Raja Al-Gurg, President of Dubai & UAE Business Women Council and Managing Director of the Easa Saleh Al-Gurg Group on Sunday May 27th met with nineteen international undergraduate students from Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts, at her Deira offices.

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  • Mrs. Raja Al-Gurg and the American students of Simmons College.
    Mrs. Raja Al-Gurg and the American students of Simmons College.
The group represents seven countries and their visit is being hosted by Zayed University. Professors Lynda Moore and Vipin Gupta accompanied the group as faculty advisors.

Simmons College is an all-female undergraduate institution. It offers several coeducational graduate programs. Its management program is the only all-female undergraduate and graduate management program in the U.S.

Mrs. Al-Gurg shared information with the group about her life journey that brought her to her current position, the choices she made, and the way she managed challenges and opportunities. She also talked on how she has grown into a leadership position, her own leadership style, as well as her vision for the way she believes organizations should be managed and led.

She discussed with the group the larger cultural issues that impact on all women as they move into leadership positions in the UAE. She shared what it has been like for her to be an Arab woman in the context of global business. One of her goals is to change the perceptions of leadership by Arab women in the world, she said.

She also discussed her guiding role within the UAE, which is to promote awareness of issues that help advance women in business within the UAE.
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About the Dubai Business Women Council
Its mission is to proactively encourage business and professional women in Dubai to participate in a variety of business segments in order to enhance the contribution, productivity and activity of business and professional women locally and internationally.

Its objectives are the following:
1. To represent the DBWC at Arab and international conferences and forums related to business and professional women.
2. To cooperate with local and international institutions to increase awareness about the council and to share and contribute business ideas between the business women and different organizations.
3. To negotiate problems that face women at the work place and find solutions and recommendations to solve these problems.
4. Providing facilities and introducing business women to the Dubai Chambers of Commerce and Industry (DCCI), its services and activities.
5. Organizing networking opportunities by inviting business women to participate in a variety of events organized by the Dubai Chambers of Commerce and Industry.

About Simmons College
Simmons College is a nationally distinguished university in the heart of Boston . Its undergraduate women's college provides exceptional liberal arts education integrated with career preparation. The college also offers coed graduate programs in health studies, education, communications management, social work, library and information science, and liberal arts, plus an MBA program designed for women.

What's great about Simmons? The great about Simmons is its collaborative community that inspires personal and professional growth, its distinguished professors who know each student's name and cares about his or her success and the way they supplement Boston 's rich intellectual, cultural, and professional resources complement the curriculum and social life on and off campus.
Simmons upholds an educational contract that places students first. This means the focus is on student careers and life goals. If anyone has doubts about attending a women's college and want to know the advantages of a women's college, or to determine whether Simmons knows what it is talking about, they are most welcome to take a peek at its history and experience and evaluate news and events.

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