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Meet Murad Hazhibaev – Opportunity Funds recipient and outstanding EducationUSA college-prep program alumni from Turkmenistan. Murad is an ambitious Business major student and a recipient of full-tuition Pillars Scholarship award from Waldorf University (IA). Murad’s strong dedication and enthusiasm is shown through his active involvement in volunteering and multiple student clubs, such as Warriors Writing Club. Murad’s outstanding academic performance helped him to get into Honors Leadership program, and included into Dean’s List at Waldorf University within his freshman year. Moreover, his active involvement as a Telemarketer for the Alumni Relations Phone-a-thon Room at Waldorf helped to contribute a raise of $20,000 for the Waldorf Lutheran College Foundation. Recently, Murad has connected with dozens of students from Turkmenistan through the EducationUSA Scholar Talk virtual series, and shared his experience of financing education in the US. This motivated and inspired many prospective students to apply and go to college in the US. Keep up an active work and commitment to academics and community, Murad.

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Six EducationUSA cohorts’ alumni from Turkmenistan are completing their Associates degree at Snow College and successfully transferring to 4-year institutions to complete their Bachelor’s degree in the US. In fact, the “2+2” pathway is very popular in Turkmenistan and both students and parents find it to be the most affordable and viable way in getting a US degree. As a result, four of these cohorts’ alumni are going to pursue their Bachelor’s degree at Northwest Missouri State University (NMSU), whereas others are going into Dixie State University, Southern Utah University and Utah Valley University in Fall 2020 with generous scholarship awards.

Further, Dr. Phillip Hull, Director at International Involvement Center notes that the NMSU “has a transfer agreement with Snow College”, and shares this as a great example of a successful collaboration and partnership between the US HEIs and EducationUSA. Snow College and Northwest Missouri State University were both among participating institutions at the EducationUSA Fall 2019 Central Asia Tour.

EducationUSA Turkmenistan Opportunity Funds Alumna, Zarina Davletova graduated from Garden City Community College in Kansas and attended virtual graduation of the 100th Commencement Ceremony on May 9, 2020.

Furthermore, Zarina was chosen as a commencement speaker and also was announced as an Outstanding Female Graduate of the Class of 2020 for her academic excellence and extraordinary commitment to community service.
She received the Associate of Science degree and completed the program with 4.0 GPA. During her academic studies, Zarina has demonstrated her leadership by becoming a member of many student club organizations and served as the Residential Life Adviser, Math and Economics Tutor in the College Comprehensive Learning Center.

In addition, she has been named PTK All-Kansas Academic team along with the 50 other Scholars in the state too.

Currently, Zarina is transferring to the Mississippi State University to pursue her Bachelor’s degree in Math and Economics major

To view virtual commencement ceremony and Zarina’s commencement speech, please follow the link: https://youtu.be/b_vt6oB12wY