University of Phoenix<\/a>. He worked in various positions while studying at UMaine Fort Kent, which helped shape his future in academia. Khoury learned how many people in how many departments it takes to make a college run smoothly. He has worked for several different colleges and universities, making sure to better each one along the way. He has been with Unity College since 2012, starting as the SVP for External Affairs, to Executive VP, to Chief Academic Officer before stepping in as the Interim President, filling the shoes of Dr. Stephen Mulkey, who left in 2015.<\/p>\nSince joining Unity College, the school has seen more than twenty percent increase in enrollment, a 35% increase in the operating budget, recorded the second highest solicited gift in the college’s history, and increased the annual fund by more than 300%. Khoury believes there is a “quiet revolution” happening among small colleges. Schools, like Unity, are trying to figure out how to be different and stand out against similar small schools. Khoury’s work at Unity has helped the college differentiate themselves, truly live up to their claim as America’s Environmental College and graduate students he calls “guardians of our [natural] resources.”<\/p>\n
Khoury also spoke about types of education. He received his DBA online at the University of Phoenix and he believes that the future of education is going to include more online learning. While online education and “regular education” seem to be seen as two different options, Khoury says that one should enhance the other. The resources should be presented together in order to prepare someone to be a productive member of society.<\/p>\n
To hear more about Dr. Khoury and Unity College, please listen to the interview below or visit unity.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr. Melik Peter Khoury (pronounced like “Corey”) became Unity College’s 11th President earlier this year and recently joined us in-studio for an update about America’s Environmental College. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}