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The School of General Education offers a va-riety of courses in different fields, ensuring that undergraduate students receive a broad knowl-edge base as part of their degree course.

Dean: Kathy Parkison. Nationality: USA. Edu-cation: Ph.D. in Industrial Organization, Econo-metrics and International Economics, Purdue University, IA, USA.

The College of Social Sciences is divided into four departments, offering degrees in Journal-ism and Mass Communication, Political Sci-ence and International Relations, Economics, and Public Administration. The Department of Public Administration is a member of NASPAA - The National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration, and the Department of Political Science is a Member of APSA – The American Political Science Association.

Acting Dean: Mostafa Golam. National-ity: Canada. Education:Ph.D. in Political Sci-ence and International Relations, Karleton University,Ottawa, Canada

The Bang College of Business is divided into four departments offering degrees in Business Administration with specializations in Finance, Accounting, Management and Marketing, and Operations Management and Information Sys-tems. The College is a member of AACSB - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. www.aacsb.edu/about/

Dean: Sang Hoon Lee. Nationality: Korea / USA. Education: Ph.D. in Financial Economics, The University of New Orleans, LA, USA.

The Language Center offers a Master program in Teaching English to Speakers of Foreign Lan-guages and non-degree courses in a variety of

world languages including English and Russian for foreigners.

Director: Kenneth Saycell. Nationality: South Africa. Education: MA in English, Rhodes Uni-versity, Grahamstown, South Africa.

The School of Law offers a minor in law for undergraduate students and, pending licens-ing, will offer an LLM in International Business Law starting in Spring 2009.

Director: John Wright. Nationality: USA. Edu-cation: Ph.D. in Public School Administration (ABD), University of Mississippi, MS, USA.

The College of Continuing Education offers programs to prepare students to sit university entrance exams and to be successful in their university studies. It also provides certificate programs for working professionals hoping to hone specific business skills and increase the contribution they make to their organization.

Dean: Albert Lang. Nationality: Canada. Edu-cation: MBA, University of British Columbia, Canada

Computer and Information Systems Center (CISC) executes the technical support and im-plementation of new technologies into the edu-cational process, research and administrative operations of KIMEP.

The program of information technologies cours-es helps students to master the knowledge in the sphere of IT, to enhance their effective un-derstanding and further use.

Director: Galina Stepanova. Citizenship: Ka-zakhstan. Education: Diploma in the sphere of the computer sciences. Kazakh National Tech-nical University named after K.I. Satpayev.

COLLEGES AND DEPARTMENTSKIMEP is divided into six distinct academic units. Academics are overseen by a Vice-President for Academic Affairs and an Associate Vice-President for Academic Affairs.

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Dana Stevens, Ph.D.,

Vice-President for Academic Affairs

John Knarr, Ph.D.,

Acting Associate Vice-President for Academ-ic Affairs

Kathy Parkison, Ph.D.,

Dean of the School of General Education

Kenneth Saycell, MA,

Director of the Lan-guage Center

John Wright, J.D.,

Director of the School of Law

Sang Hoon Lee, Ph.D.,

Dean of the Bang Col-lege of Business

Albert Lang, MBA,

Dean of the College of Continuing Educa-tion

Galina Stepanova,

Director of the Com-puter and Information Systems Center

Mostafa Golam

Acting Dean of the College of Social Sci-ences