AMU appoints advisory panel of alumni seeking their help for new campuses
Submitted by admin3 on 7 October 2009 - 9:16pm
By TwoCircles.net news desk,
Patna: Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University Prof. P. K. Abdul Azis has appointed an advisory committee consisting prominent alumni of the university seeking their help for five off-campus centres. The alumni had appreciated the decision of the university to open the centres in five different places in the country and also expressed their desire to contribute their lot in making those centres of world class excellence.
The committee of AMU old boys comprises Dr. Masood Akhtar of Middletown, USA, Engineer Nadeem Akhtar Tareen, Riyadh (KSA), Mr. Zaigham Khan, KSA, Mr. Ameer Ahmad, Group Managing Director of Teejan Group of Companies, Sultanate of Oman, Mr. Faisal Saleem, USA, Mr. Ali Rizvi, President, Federation of AMU Alumni Associations of USA, Mr. M A A Fatmi, former Minister of State for HRD, Mr. Khwaja Mohammad Shahid, New Delhi, Mr. Safdar H. Khan, Senior General Manager, Trade Fair Authority of India, New Delhi, Mr. Syed Hasan Kamal of USA, Mr. Frank Islam, Chairman and CEO, FI Investment Group, LLC, USA and Prof. Javed Musarrat of DNA Research Chair of King Saud University, Riyadh (KSA).
The committee will collect suggestions from AMU alumni from across the world through various networks for establishing the centres and preparing a framework for academic activities there.
It has also been given responsibility to approve courses that AMU should offer at these new centres and identify potential mentors and collaborators for various programs.
Vice Chancellor, Prof. Azis expressed hope that the committee would submit its report by December 15, 2009 and AMU would organize a national level brain storming session in New Delhi to discuss this report. The university would give its best of consideration to the emerging ideas and would be placing it before the statutory bodies of the University for taking a final view and develop a vision plan for new campuses.
The members of Advisory Committee will meet on October 14, 2009 in a program to be held at India Islamic Cultural Centre, New Delhi to make a plan to carry out the responsibilities that have been given to them.
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Selection of Advisory Panel
Dear Friends,
Somehow its is perceived in Aligarh and specially by our beloved Vice-Chancellor and his team that his entire trip to USA in 2008 was sponsored by one individual. This perception is totally wrong. The International Economy ticket was paid by two individuals and was upgraded to Business class by President of The Federation and another indidual with the help of an AMU Alumni in Air India. All the local domestic travel of Mr. Vice-Chancellor was paid by the local host organisations/Alumni Associations.
This is our humble request to our beloved seniors and fellow Alumni to stop doing self promotion at the cost of AMU progress and help and support of AMU Alumni community. I am avoiding to write the names to avoid name calling in the larger interest of AMU and fellow Alumni community.
AMU appoints advisory panel of alumni seeking their help for new
This is a positive development. At least AMU Administration realized to utilize and tap the resource it has in the form of passionate and caring Alumni. But the judgment of selection of people is very poor. Barring couple, mostly it looks like a favoritism.
When you talk about new courses and new curriculum, you need to have a mixture of people from Academia and Industries where as the existing list is even not close to the reality.
AMU has alumni like (in India) Dr. Shahid Jameel (Scientist), Dr. Obaid Siddiqi(Scientist), Prof. Mushirul Hasan(Academician-Administrator), Mr. Naved Masood (IAS), Mr. Ishrat Aziz (IFS), Mr. Salman Haider(IFS), Prof. Saleem Kidwai (Academician) and many more. In the Western world or North America, Prof. Asad Ahmad, Prof. Tariq Haqqi, Prof. Tariq Rizvi, Prof. Muzaffar Alam, Prof. Abdul Qayyum (all Professors in USA/Canada) and Dr. Kohkan Shamsi, Drs. Hasan and Talat Kamil, Dr. Abdus Salam Quraishi and many more in Academia and Industry or have their own enterprise in USA and have love for AMU.
There are many more in middle east too like Dr. Mohsin Raza and of his likes.
second thing, its not necessary to go for AMU Alumni only. Even outsiders should have been included in the list.
But....
I wish good luck to the team.
Selection ofAdvisory Panel
yes, i am also agree that selection of advisory panel is not good enough, i think this selection is on the basis of alumni meeting held in last october in AMU, Where these people offerd financial support for this pupose. if AMU is seeking financial support from these pepople then in future they can interfere in the admission process also that would be very very harmfull to the repute of AMU.
Selection ofAdvisory Panel
Dear Friends,
From the list of members, only 2 of them pledged to donate/raise 1 crore rupees. Rest of them had not donated or pledged anything as far as we know. Most of the people in the list were hosts of Mr. Vice Chancellor in his foreign visits. This is not a healthy proposition for any institution or head of the institution to honor their hosts. The merit of the candidates should be primary focus.
If you anylyze the list carefully, there are 5 people from US, 3 from middle east (2 KSA and 1 from Oman), 3 from New Delhi and 1 from Aligarh (a faculty and presently in middle east).
Alumni of rest of the world and specially from India were totally ignored in a similar fashion as it was done in First Alumni Summit.
Once again I would like to request the AMU Administration to adopt the criterion of Merit for selection of any team either Advisory or Executive.
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