NEW IÉSEG Partner: Western New England University, USA
03/06/2012
IESEG is proud to announce a new partnership for undergraduate student exchanges with Western New England University, USA. The prestigious university was founded in 1919 and is located in Springfield, Massachusetts. 3700 students study in undergraduate, graduate, and professional programmes, offered through Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business, Engineering, Pharmacy, and School of Law. The Business School is AACSB accredited.
Dr. Richard S. Keating, Western New England’s Vice President for strategic initiatives,came to France to visit their new partner, IESEG. He saw our locations in Lille and Paris and was impressed by the facilities as well as our “French way of life”. At that occasion we learned about his long-life passion for American literature and his background as an Air Force Officer.
Visiting IESEG
Dr. Richard S. KEATING, Vice President, Strategic Initiatives, Western New England College, USA
“A passion for Faulkner”
- Short presentation: “I am Vice President for Strategic Initiatives at Western New England College with the mission is to improve international recruitment of students.”
- My background: “In my first career I was an Air Force officer, having served more than 20 years as faculty for English literature in Colorado at the U.S. Air Force Academy. I hold a PhD in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MBA from the University of South Dakota.”
- My favorite authors: “I am passionate about literature. My favorite is William Faulkner, but I also like Ernest Hemingway and I am especially fascinated by American authors from the south.”
- Our partnership with IESEG: “At Western New England our aim is to create a global campus. We are proud to already welcome a great number of Chinese and Indian students and we would now like to enlargen the student numbers and create more diversity by inviting European students.”
- IESEG Lille and Paris: “Lille has for me the perfect size of a city. It’s perfect to discover the life in France. The short distance to London, Brussels and Paris makes it really attractive. The Paris Campus will attract our students easily.
