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tariq sapi nangarhar university enigneering student. The Nangarhar University is one of the largest universities in all of Afghanistan. It has about 3,500 students, 250 faculty. Some of the Departments include Agriculture, Engineering, Education, Medicine, Theology, Pedagogy, Political Science and Veterinary Medicine.

The university has no computers for faculty, students or administration. They have no textbooks for classroom use. Professors teach from lecture notes. Most of the library books are in Arabic and only the Theology Department can use Arabic. Project Needs and Beneficiaries: As the second largest university in Afghanistan, Nangarhar University prepares students in nine content “faculties” – but does so with few senior faculty (6 of 250 faculty have doctorates), geographic and curricular isolation, little internet capability (the university’s one lab of 10 computers is a little over one year old), little to no classroom or lab equipment (projectors, screens, white boards, equipment, charts or models), and few texts relevant to immediate educational needs (eg, English as a Foreign Language texts).

Nangarhar University faculty and students, and Jalalabad residents in the local community, want to reconstruct and stabilize their quality of life and their country. However, without significant intervention to postsecondary education, university students and graduates are underemployed, unable to enter the workforce with sufficient English literacy, confidence in the robustness of their degrees, and workplace readiness.

This project targets classroom pedagogy for 250 faculty and 3500 students of Nangarhar University in Jalalabad. Needs assessments over the past few years – and the report of the faculty themselves -- confirm the need to a) equip classrooms and teaching labs for effective pedagogy, b) “train the trainers” – offer current, relevant faculty development on site through visiting scholars, and c) sufficient classroom equipment for effective pedagogy relevant to each discipline.