Agricultural Education for Development in the Arab Countries

Mohamed M. Samy earned his doctorate in International Agricultural Development at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Samy is an academic and administrator with over 30 years of experience designing and managing educational and institutional capacity-building projects and higher education and technical agricultural training programs in the United States, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Egypt. Dr. Samy served as the Chief of Party for two leading educational and agricultural development projects for the United States Agency for International Development in Egypt with a total budget of US$ 20 million. He directed the University of Illinois and the Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities’ efforts to support six Egyptian universities and the Ministries of Education and Agriculture in modernizing educational programs and implementing effective technical training that prepared thousands of students for careers in global agriculture. Dr. Samy previously served as coordinator for the University of Illinois project “Increasing Farm Income through the Production of Value-Added Products. He worked with Illinois producers to increase their income.(72229948-7ef2-4e63-a254-aacc97d87c82)

R. Kirby Barrick began his career as a high school teacher of vocational agriculture. After serving as an assistant state supervisor with the Ohio Department of Education, he earned the Ph.D. in Agricultural Education from The Ohio State University and joined the faculty where he taught courses in teaching and learning. He was awarded the OSU Distinguished Teaching Award, the Gamma Sigma Delta Teaching Award, and the NACTA Distinguished Educator Award. His research interests include teaching and learning theory and practice in domestic and international settings. He has authored/presented more than 275 articles, papers, posters and workshops, and served as principal investigator for more than $8 million in grants. He is a Fellow in the AAAE and is a Fulbright Senior Specialist. Barrick was a department chair Ohio State, Associate Dean for Academic Programs at the University of Illinois, and Dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Florida. He has taught graduate-level courses in teacher education, instructional design, and university governance, and conducted professional development activities for practicing educators. He has worked extensively internationally, conducting teaching and learning and curriculum development workshops for university and technical school faculty.