U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings
at NYIT-Abu Dhabi

U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings is welcomed to NYIT's Abu Dhabi campus on Nov. 3.

NYIT President Edward Guiliano and Secretary Spellings tour the NYIT-Abu Dhabi campus.

Secretary Spellings and two third-year NYIT-Abu Dhabi students review a display of interior design projects.

Secretary Spellings chats with NYIT-Abu Dhabi interior design students in the interior design computer lab.

Dr. Tayeb Kamali, president and CEO of the Centre of Excellence for Applied Research and Training (CERT) and Vice Chancellor of the Higher Colleges of Technology in Abu Dhabi with U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings and NYIT President Edward Guiliano.

President Guiliano and Secretary Spellings with Faisal Mohamed Al Ali, senior scholarship officer for the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company.

U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings tells audience members, "Your students are blessed with enormous opportunities. A world of information at your fingertips. An economy that moves as fast as you can think."

In his Presidential Lecture Series introduction, NYIT President Edward Guiliano speaks about globalization, collaboration, and NYIT’s role in the 21st century.

U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings delivers the first-ever NYIT Presidential Lecture at a campus outside the United States.

NYIT-Abu Dhabi Dean Timothy Keating welcomes the U.S. Secretary of Education, NYIT President Guiliano, and 170 students, faculty, staff and invited guests to the Nov. 3 Presidential Lecture Series.