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Dr. Manoucher Khosrowshahi

Dr. Manoucher R. Khosrowshahi (Dr. K.) is the Texas Professor of the year, a Piper Professor, Fulbright scholar, and the founder and director of the Middle East Center at Tyler Junior College. He serves as a board member and web master at the Middle East Outreach Council (Nationwide network of Middle East centers). He is also an adjunct faculty at the University of Texas at Tyler.

His fellow instructors, the administration, and his students regard him with the highest respect and admiration, as evidenced by his selection for the "Endowed Chair for Teaching Excellence" and "the Mattie Alice Scroggin Baker Excellence in Teaching Award." The city of Tyler awarded him the "Dr. Martin Luther King's Award for Non-Violent Social Change". Dr. Khosrowshahi has been recognized ten times as "Master Teacher" by the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) of the University of Texas at Austin. He has received “Excellence on Education” award twice and the “Best Advisor Award” from the student senate.

Dr. K. is an Internet veteran of 20 years and an e-learning expert. He has been offering the online courses since 1993 via cyber-learning.

As part of his research in international education, he has traveled to Turkey (since 1998 twenty four times and conducted travel/study projects overseas (Thailand, Turkey, Mexico, England and Japan). He is fluent in English, Azeri Turkish, Turkey Turkish (Modern), Farsi, and Arabic (reading, writing and some speaking).

He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Texas at Denton and received three post-doctoral fellowships from The University of Texas at Austin, Rice University and The United States Institute of peace. He has been teaching political science courses since 1983.

Bringing more than $500,000 of grant money to undergraduate education in the past ten years, Dr. Khosrowshahi is a recipient of numerous grants from the U.S. Department of Education (Funds for Improvement of Post-Secondary Education and Fulbright), Middle East Institute, Middle East Policy Council, United States Institute of Peace, Tyler Junior College's Student Enrichment Program (Global Education Projects and activities), Texas Commission on the Arts, Texas Council for the Humanities and many other private and public organizations. He has initiated a number of new projects through his grants to establish outreach programs, speaker's bureau, Travel and Study Projects, Faculty Exchange Programs, and International Day activities and programs to enrich students learning experience. He has taken over 1500 students and faculty to the overseas for educational projects in the past fifteen years.