Nigeria, July 7 -- My name is Professor DeWayne P. Frazier and I serve as the President/ Vice Chancellor of the American University of Nigeria (AUN). For over 25 years I have worked in international education in the United States context. AUN employs the American liberal arts style programmes with highly engaged teaching pedagogy that helps develop the whole person. We also focus on competency-based learning where students are evaluated on more than rote memorisation but more precisely on important outcomes that will make them entrepreneurs with integrity.

Many of our students complete their undergraduate degree with AUN and move on to the United States to obtain their masters and PhD programmes. Because of this, I have been asked many t...