Medina Orana

Head of Academic Services and Adjunct Faculty

RIT Kosovo

mxocad1@rit.edu

Office Location

Main Building-405

Medina Orana

Head of Academic Services and Adjunct Faculty

RIT Kosovo

Bio

With over 10 years of experience in project and change management, Medina is currently a lecturer in the Management Unit and Head of Academic Services at RIT Kosovo. She has also lectured at the University of Sussex, UCLA, and the University of Prishtina, and teaches the International Project Management Preparatory Program.

Medina has significant experience, including overseeing the transposition of European nuclear safety directives in Kosovo, chairing a regional conference on nuclear security, and founding the eco-tourism enterprise "Ambienturë." The ROAMING Erasmus Project in Western Balkans, which she was running, has been successfully completed.

Medina, who holds degrees from RIT Kosovo, the University of Sussex (MSc in Economics), and UCLA (post-graduate studies in Entrepreneurship and Human Element in Leadership) and is a certified PMP, is now in charge of establishing the academic services at the new RIT Tirana campus.

Her achievements include the RIT Provost’s Award for Excellence in Advising (2021) and the Kosovo US Alumni Association's Emerging Leader Award (2022) for community initiatives like the Community Greenhouse and the Girl Power Science Fair.

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Currently Teaching

PROF-510

Project Management

3 Credits

This course addresses project management from a multidisciplinary perspective, covering the fundamental nature of and techniques for managing a broad range of projects. Topics cover the Project Management Life Cycle from Planning to Termination. It also addresses the behavioral and quantitative facets of project management, as well as the use of methods, tools and techniques for the initiation, planning, and execution of projects. Introduces the standard framework, processes and knowledge areas of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®Guide) as defined by the Project Management Institute (PMI). Project Management is available in on campus and online formats. *Note: BUSI-510 may not be substituted for BUSI-710 in a SOIS graduate concentration or the SOIS advanced certificate in project management. Additionally, a student may not register for and receive credit for both BUSI-510 and BUSI-710, whether taken as an undergraduate or graduate student.*

SOIS-432

Managing Organizational Change

3 Credits

Sooner or later all organizations change in certain to many respects and for several reasons. This is true for organizations in profit, non-profit and government sectors which all have many things common. Ongoing organizational success frequently depends on how well change is managed given new opportunities, challenges or threats faced by organizations. Managing organizational change requires knowledge of things in an organization that may need to be changed including an organization’s mission, goals, fiscal health, budget, operations and/or production/service capabilities, facilities, unit structure, personnel, culture, technology and other resources. Effective management of organizational change also requires knowledge of and skills in ways to introduce, guide, support, monitor and evaluate changes once they are implemented. This course takes an interdisciplinary applied approach to managing organizational change teaching SOAR-based strategic planning, SWOT analysis, total quality management (TQM) and continuous quality improvement (CQI) among other change models and methods.

In the News

March 30, 2023

RIT Kosovo Partners with Six Institutions to Increase International Mobility Opportunities for Less Privileged Students

RIT Kosovo, along with six other higher education institutions from the Western Balkans, has embarked on a partnership to strengthen staff and student mobility internationally. The goal of this collaboration is to increase the number of less privileged students, staff, and faculty involved in international mobilities.
November 18, 2021

RIT Kosovo (A.U.K) and Global Entrepreneurship Week 2021

RIT K (A.U.K) faculty and students were part of the many events organized during the Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) 2021. RIT K (A.U.K) faculty and students were part of the many events organized during the Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) 2021.
June 15, 2021

Policy Making in Uncertain Times

The Department of Economic Policy, Public Policy and International Financial Cooperation - Macroeconomics Division held a lecture with students of the Summer Group at RIT Kosovo, on the topic "Policy Making in Uncertain Times".

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