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Kamilya Kadyrova

Director, Assistant Professor

New Generation Academy

Preparatory Programs

 

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Phone: +996 (312) 915000 ext. 485

Room: 420

 

Kamilya Kadyrova is an Assistant Professor and Director of the New Generation Academy at the American University of Central Asia. She is a Program Director of the AUCA Freshman Academic Orientation and Language and Thinking Program and a Project Director of the “Study With US” program at AUCA sponsored by the US Department of State and Family Health International (FHI) 360 (since August 2023). She holds a Master of Business Administration in Talent Management and Human Potential Development (summa cum laude) from the American University of Central Asia (2022, Kyrgyzstan), a Master of Education in Higher Education Leadership (summa cum laude) from University of Arkansas (2010, USA), and a specialized degree from the Department of World Languages, majoring in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) and minoring in Teaching French as a Foreign Language (summa cum laude) from Osh State University (1999, Kyrgyzstan). Kamilya was a non-degree program visiting student of the Graduate School of Linguistics from Osh State University (2005, Kyrgyzstan). 

Kamilya joined AUCA in 2005 as an Instructor in the Preparatory Program and worked until 2007. She rejoined AUCA in 2012 as an Assistant Professor of the First Year Seminar Program at the General Education program where she currently teaches First Year Seminar (FYS): English for Liberal Arts, Philosophy, English Composition, and an OSUN Network Collaborative Course of FYS. In 2015, Kamilya became the Academic Director of New Generation Academy and in 2017 the Director of this preparatory program. 

Kamilya is an active member of the AUCA Faculty Senate (since 2014), a member of the AUCA Academic Affairs Committee (since September 2023), a co-chair of the OSUN Access Programs Working Group (since December 2022), a member of the OSUN Strengthening the Core Committee (since 2021), a member of the Freshman Orientation Anthology Development Committee (since 2013), and a member and a co-chair of the Student Intellectual Life Committee (SILC) at AUCA (since 2012). She actively served as a member of the OSUN Access Programs Working Group (2021-2022) and a board member of the Volunteer Action Center at the Center for Leadership and Community Engagement of the University of Arkansas (2008-2010, USA). 

  • US Department of State Grant Awardee of 140000 USD for provision of the Study With US project in Kyrgyzstan – August 2023-July 2024
  • AUCA Best Master Thesis 2022 Awardee –Diploma and monetary award, June 2022
  • Edmund Muskie Graduate Fellowship Awardee by US Department of State – May 2010
  • Female Roles and Work-Life Balance among Working Women of Kyrgyzstan
  • Higher Education Policy in Kyrgyzstan: Provision of Education to Socially-disadvantaged Children, International Education
  • Writing and Thinking through Technology
  • Planned and ongoing research: Early intervention: Introducing Information Literacy to College Students at the Preparatory Level; Women in Academia: Female Faculty Attrition in Kyrgyzstan’s Universities; Digital Tools in Literary Analysis.
  • Shein D., Kaufman, E., Kadyrova, K. Terziev, L. (October 2023). AAC&U Conference Excerpts. Pedagogy for a connected world: the OSUN Center for Liberal Arts and Sciences Pedagogy. Washington DC, USA.
  • Kadyrova, K. K. (September, 2022). Master’s Thesis Excerpts. Multiple shifts for working females: Work-life balance and work motivation during COVID-19 lockdown. Working Paper. Westminster University in Tashkent. Tashkent, Uzbekistan
  • Kadyrova, K. K., Kadyrov, K. P. (April, 2018). Verbal aggression in pedagogical discourse, Arabaev Kyrgyz State University Herald, Philological Sciences, Issue I, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. 
  • Kadyrova, K. K., Kadyrov, K. P. (April, 2018). Perlocutive Effect of the Instructor’s Discourse at the Lessons of English. Arabaev Kyrgyz State University Herald, Philological Sciences, Issue I, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. 
  • Kadyrova, K. K. (November, 2012). Why is American Education Unique? Lessons to Be Learned. Arabaev Kyrgyz State University Herald, Philological Sciences, Issue V, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. 
  • Kadyrova, K.K. (June, 2002). Euphemisms as a Source of Synonyms. Osh State University Herald. Philological Sciences, Issue 2, Osh, Kyrgyzstan.
  • Kadyrova, K.K. (April, 2002). Periphrasis and Euphemism: Their Peculiarities. Osh State University Herald. Philological Sciences, Issue 1, Osh, Kyrgyzstan.
  • English Composition I, II
  • First Year Seminar: English for Liberal Arts I, II
  • Introduction to Digital Humanities
  • Philosophy I, II

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