Stratford University and K. K. Modi Group signed a joint venture agreement on the university’s main campus in Falls Church, Virginia on Oct. 1 to establish one campus and two learning sites in India.
The Modi Group’s vision for education, in terms of helping individuals achieve their career goals through competence-based education, and their vision of using education to help achieve the goals of industry and the economic development.
Dr. Richard R. Shurtz, II, the President of Stratford University, indicated that in the next 25 years, 45 million additional individuals in India will enter the workforce, and during the same period, the world will incur a labor shortage of about an equal number of people.
K. K. Modi, the chairman of K. K. Modi Investment and Financial Services, said the three months that he spent at Harvard in 1984, when he did an advanced management program, was the most interesting period for him. Then he discovered a unique method of education.
Dr. Richard R. Shurtz, II and Mr. K. K. Modi shake hands at Stratford University’s main campus in Falls Church, Virginia on Oct. 1. (Courtesy of Stratford University)
