The College of Security and Global Studies of the American University in the Emirates (CGSG) keeps working despite the negative effects of the global COVID19th Pandemic. Among the different efforts of the Faculty, the program was able to organise rapidly with the necessary procedures to adapt to the virtual classes, as well as to rearrange the assignments and schedules of the students to finish the semester with no inconveniences.
Amidst the circumstances, the College of Security and Global Studies aims to continue coordinating the activities to fulfil the requirements of the University in this complex period. It is important also to note that within the different challenges endured by the country, some students of the College continued with their working and academic activities, overcoming the challenges of the Pandemic, and combining successfully their time within the University and the public service.
The effects of the current COVID19 Pandemic over the systemic capacity of countries and institutions to deter the crisis, cannot be adequately forecasted. This is because no other previous biological threat has affected so much the current environmental, political, and economic interconnectedness of a globalised world. In this regard, the different efforts implemented within educational institutions to try to overcome a global state of emergency derived from the systemic effects of COVID19, can be considered part of a crisis management protocol, delivered different by each country eager to assess the implementation of measures that protect the economy and the health of the population.
This is how, along the American University, as well as the College, crisis management mitigation protocols have been developed to protect all the stakeholders of the organisation. Therefore, at the program and the University, the single most important priority has been to protect the students from the effects of the crisis, as well as the Faculty members in a process of virtualisation that has proved to be difficult but necessary and possible.
