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Rahmat Shoureshi
American university administrator
Rahmat Allah Shoureshi (Persian: رحمتالله شورشی) is an Iranian American former university administrator, most prominently at Portland State University (PSU) from to In January , Shoureshi began serving as interim president of New York Institute of Technology,[1] where he had previously served as provost and professor.
On May 15, in an email to students, he was officially named as president of Portland State University and took office in August of that year. In March , The Oregonian reported that ethical issues and staff mistreatment caused his future as PSU's president to be uncertain.[2] He was pressured to resign two months later, days before a university board legislative session was scheduled to assemble to discuss his continued employment.[3]
Career
For eight years, Shoureshi served as dean of the School of Engineering and Computing Science at the University of Denver.
He also taught mechanical engineering and conducted research at Wayne State University, Purdue University and the Colorado School of Mines. He received his B.S. degree from Sharif University of Technology,[4][5][6] and his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and completed a program in Marketing and Industrial Dynamics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.[7][8][9][10][11][12]
References
- ^"Rahmat Shoureshi, Ph.D., Begins Role as Interim President of New York Institute of Technology".
- ^"Ethical issues, staff mistreatment leads to uncertain future for PSU president". Portland State University President Rahmat Shoureshi, shown here touring the campus shortly after he started the job in August , is under fire after the university's board of trustees informed him they were dissatisfied with his performance. They now say they will reduce the 4 percent raise to 2. PSU owned a presidential mansion in the exclusive Dunthorpe neighborhood that Shoureshi could have lived in for free. If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation.
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Rahmat shoureshi biography of william hill Support WW's journalism today. Nevertheless, after days of working the phone, she managed to find the correct components, records show. All the while, university records show, Shoureshi has made lavish demands of the financially strapped institution while its students faced steep tuition hikes. Some trustees are convinced they were misled.Retrieved March 31,
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- ^"Researcher, engineer is new NYIT provost". Newsday. August 19, Retrieved March 31,
- ^"University of Denver MagazineRahmat Shoureshi University of Denver Magazine". Some of the Saudis were glad to do so, but others professed not to know Shoureshi. A few months later, Shoureshi fired Flynn as associate vice president, and after eight years her time at Portland State was over. He launched a two-week tour of the Middle East last February, telling his staff that the trip would help him court potential donors and visit with alumni. Records indicate he actively involved himself in the decision-making about the mansion, rejecting one purchase offer as insufficient.
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