Kembara Sihat UIAM santuni komuniti Orang Asli- [Harian Metro]

SPECIAL MEETING AND TOUR of IIUM GOMBAK CAMPUS by THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE MINISTRY OF HIGHER EDUCATION

Gombak, 17 May – The Secretary General (KSU) of the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) who is also the Deputy Chairman and member of the Board of Governors (BOG), International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Dato’ Seri Ir. Dr. Zaini Ujang attended a Special University Finance Committee Meeting held at IIUM Gombak Campus.

After the meeting, Dato’ Seri Ir. Dr. Zaini Ujang spent almost two hours visiting several Departments, Mahallah and Kulliyyah at IIUM Gombak.

Among the venues visited were the IIUM Gallery, IIUM Academy, Kulliyyah of Engineering and Mahallah Aminah.

IIUM Gallery

During his visit to IIUM Academy, he was welcomed and briefed by its Dean, Associate Prof. Dr. Badri Najib Zubir.

IIUM Academy

Meanwhile, the KSU also visited the “Smart Class Room and Center for Unmanned Technologies (CUTe) to see Artificial Intelligence (AI) Equipment which is located in the Engineering Kulliyyah.

Smart Class Room Center for Unmanned Technologies (CUTe)

Before ending the tour, he also visited the IIUM Waqf Room located at Mahallah Aminah.

The IIUM Waqf Room

The IIUM Waqf Room is a student accommodation upgraded with new furnishings and paintwork donated on a one-off basis by individuals or organizations.

The first project offers 128 beds to IIUM students and is located at Block F, Mahallah Aminah.

The IIUM Waqf Room offers a conducive living and study environment with its minimalist concept and the new furnishings will make students feel at home.

The IIUM Waqf Room

Students residing in these rooms may remain in the same room throughout the study period, subject to terms and conditions.

Also present at the meeting and visit was from Undersecretary of the International Division, Ministry of Finance as well as Member of BOG IIUM, Mr. Abu Bakar @ Salleh bin Haji Jambol, Deputy Rector (Responsible Research And Innovation) IIUM, Prof. Dr. Amir Akramin bin Shafie, IIUM Executive Director of Finance, Mdm. Naaimah Binti Mat @ Ahmad Radzi, IIUM Executive Director (Management Services Department), Mdm. Zuraida Bt. Hassan, IIUM Legal Adviser, Y.M Raja Badrol Hisham Bin Raja Mohd. Ali, Covering Executive Director (Development) Dr. Rustam Khairi Bin Zahari and Head of Treasury and Business Development Department, Finance Division IIUM, Mr. Mohamad Nasir bin Kama.

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Harvard Students, Faculty Denounce Suspensions of Pro-Palestine Protesters

More than 1,100 undergraduates signed a petition urging Harvard College to overturn its decision to suspend five students and place more than 20 other students on probation for their participation in the 20-day pro-Palestine encampment in Harvard Yard, according to Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine.

HOOP, the coalition of pro-Palestine student groups that staged the encampment, organized the petition, which appeared to be exclusively accessible to students with a Harvard College email address and allowed students to sign anonymously.

The Crimson could not independently verify the number of students who signed onto the petition.

The number of signatures reported by HOOP represents roughly 15 percent of the College’s student body and reflects broad disapproval of the decision to discipline a significant number of undergraduates just days before Commencement, the University’s annual graduation ceremony.

The sanctions will prevent more than 12 graduating seniors from receiving their diplomas, including several Rhodes Scholar recipients.

Harvard affinity groups and faculty also slammed the College for taking disciplinary action, that many described as a “Palestine exception to free speech.”

At least a dozen student groups, including the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association and the Society of Arab Students, called for the reversal of the sanctions and claimed that students at Harvard historically received little or no disciplinary action for participating in protest movements, according to statements published to Instagram on Saturday.

On Sunday evening, the Harvard Institute of Politics Student Advisory Committee wrote in a statement that the group “strongly condemns” the disciplinary action taken by the Ad Board.

All of the SAC members present voted unanimously in favor of the statement twice.

Unlike some of the affinity groups, however, the IOP struck a line about a Palestine exception for free speech from the statement after at least two SAC members voted against it, according to a person familiar with the discussion.

A “majority of the officers” of the Phillips Brooks House Association also posted a statement to Instagram on Sunday afternoon in which they wrote that the officers were “disappointed” by the University’s move.

“Harvard must prioritize calling in students to discussion rather than punishing students for their peaceful advocacy efforts,” the statement said.

College spokesperson Jonathan Palumbo referred to a Friday statement that said Harvard is “committed to applying all policies in a content-neutral manner and per existing regulations as outlined in college and university guidelines.”

Palumbo added that the College does not comment on “specific student matters.”

History professor Walter Johnson, who previously served as faculty adviser to the Palestine Solidarity Committee, wrote in an email that the disciplinary action is “an ethical, procedural, and institutional catastrophe” and that the charges brought against students are “based upon non-specific allegations, some of them presented in the passive voice, and undemonstrated insinuations of unspecified dangers and disruptions.”

“By the end of the encampment, representatives of the administration were IDing people at random in the Yard, and neither the University nor its various ad boards have ever bothered to actually sort out an account of what, exactly, any given student is being accused of doing,” Johnson added.

Classics professor Richard F. Thomas also suggested that Harvard’s response to the encampment differed from its historical approach to student demonstrations.

“Why would Harvard College, alone it seems of our schools, choose to prevent the graduation of these students when it took no action against five or six more serious breaches of conduct over recent decades, including the weeks-long occupation of administrative buildings which actually disrupted university business?” Thomas wrote in an email.

Students have mounted encampments in the Yard before, as in 1986, when students constructed shantytowns to protest Harvard’s investment in companies in apartheid South Africa, or 2011, when students built a tent city in the Yard as part of the Occupy Harvard movement.

In 2001, members of the Progressive Students Labor Movement staged a three week sit-in of Massachusetts Hall, where the president’s office is located, to campaign for a “living wage” for Harvard employees. Students also blockaded Mass. Hall in 2014 and 2015, calling for the University to divest from fossil fuels. In 2016, students staged a sit-in of an administrative building in support of striking Harvard University Dining Services workers.

Though one student was arrested in the 2014 Mass. Hall blockade, Harvard has generally been hesitant to widely issue severe disciplinary sanctions in response to student demonstrations.

University spokesperson Jonathan L. Swain referred The Crimson to an email from interim Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 to members of Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine, the coalition of student groups who organized the encampment.

Some student organizers facing disciplinary action said they were under the impression that Garber would be lenient with protesters — especially those slated to graduate in Harvard’s Commencement ceremonies Thursday, but Garber’s email contained no explicit promises of leniency.

Garber wrote in the May 14 email that he would “encourage the administrative boards or other disciplinary bodies within the schools to address cases expeditiously under existing precedent and practice (including taking into account where relevant the voluntary decision to leave the encampment), for all students, including those students eligible thereafter to graduate so that they may do so.”

The email “does not speak to the outcome of disciplinary processes, rather it indicates he would encourage disciplinary bodies to move their processes forward expeditiously, in line with their existing precedents and practices,” Swain wrote.

According to a statement co-signed by Black student groups — including the Black Students Association, Harvard African Students Association, Harvard Caribbean Club, Eritrean and Ethiopian Students Association, Dominican Students Association, Black Men’s Forum, and Black Arts Collective — five Black students, including a member of the unrecognized African and African American Resistance Organization, are being suspended.

“We stand with our peers and community members who have been targeted for standing up for basic human and political rights. An attack on them is an attack on all those who care about the right to protest,” the statement read.

Source: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/5/20/harvard-student-petition-disciplinary-action/

Yale graduates stage pro-Palestinian walkout of commencement

Scores of graduating students staged a walkout from Yale University’s commencement exercises yesterday, protesting the Israeli war in Gaza, Yale’s financial ties to weapons makers and its response to pro-Palestinian demonstrations on the Ivy League campus.

The walkout began as Yale President Peter Salovey started to announce the traditional college-by-college presentation of candidates for degrees on the grounds of Yale’s Old Campus, filled with thousands of graduates in their caps and gowns.

At least 150 students seated near the front of the audience stood up together, turned their backs to the stage and paraded out of the ceremony through Phelps Gate, retracing their steps during the processional into the yard.

Many of the protesters carried small banners with such slogans as “Books not bombs” and “Divest from war.” Some wore red-coloured latex gloves symbolizing bloodied hands.

Other signs read: “Drop the charges” and “Protect free speech” in reference to 45 people arrested in a police crackdown last month on demonstrations in and around the New Haven, Connecticut, campus.

The walkout drew a chorus of cheers from fellow students in the crowd, but the protest was otherwise peaceful, without disruption. No mention of it was made from the stage.

Yale is one of dozens of US campuses roiled by protests over the mounting Palestinian humanitarian crisis stemming from Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip following the bloody October 7 cross-border attack on Jewish settlements by Hamas.

The University of Southern California cancelled its main graduation ceremony altogether, and dozens of students walked out of Duke University’s commencement last week to protest its guest speaker, comedian Jerry Seinfeld, who has supported Israel throughout the war in Gaza.Graduates protest the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, during the commencement at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut May 20, 2024. — Reuters pic

Academic workers strike UC Santa Cruz

Fallout from a violent attack weeks ago on pro-Palestinian activists encamped at the University of California, Los Angeles, reverberated on the UC Santa Cruz campus yesterday as academic workers there staged a protest strike organised by their union.

Also yesterday, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Dartmouth College, an Ivy League university in New Hampshire, narrowly voted to censure president Sian Beilock, according to a college spokesperson, for her decision to call in police to dismantle a pro-Palestinian encampment on May 1. The censure vote does not directly endanger Beilock’s job.

The police action resulted in the arrest of 89 people and some injuries.

Much of the student activism has been aimed at academic institutions’ financial ties with Israel and US military programmes benefiting the Jewish state.

Protests in sympathy with Palestinians have in turn been branded by pro-Israel supporters as antisemitic, testing the boundaries between freedom of expression and hate speech. Many schools have called in police to quell the demonstrations.

At UC Santa Cruz on Monday, hundreds of unionized academic researchers, graduate teaching assistants and post-doctoral scholars went on strike to protest what they said were the university’s unfair labour practices in its handling of pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

The strikers are members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 4811, which represents some 2,000 grad students and other academic workers at UC Santa Cruz, and about 48,000 total across all 10 University of California campuses and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Last week, the UAW 4811 rank-and-file voted to authorise union leaders to organise a series of “standup” strikes through the end of June on individual or groups of UC campuses rather than across the entire university.

The Santa Cruz strike marked the first union-backed protest in solidarity with the recent wave of pro-Palestinian student activists, whose numbers, according to the UAW, include graduate students arrested at several University of California campuses.

Union leaders said a major impetus for the strike was the arrest of 210 people at the scene of a pro-Palestinian protest camp torn down by police at UCLA on May 2.

The night before, a group of pro-Israel supporters physically attacked the encampment and its occupiers in a melee that went on for at least three hours before police moved in to quell the disturbance. The university has since opened an investigation of the incident.

The strikers also are demanding amnesty for grad students who were arrested or face discipline for their involvement in the protests.

UC Santa Cruz issued a statement saying campus entrances were briefly blocked in the morning by demonstrators, prompting the school to switch to remote instruction for the day.

The University of California has filed its own unfair labour practice complaint with the state Public Employee Relations Board asking the state to order a halt to the strike.

Source: https://www.malaymail.com/news/world/2024/05/21/yale-graduates-stage-pro-palestinian-walkout-of-commencement/135606

Putrajaya faces mounting condemnation for letting firm owned by ‘genocide-tainted’ BlackRock to manage local airports

More than a dozen civil society movements have come together to condemn the government’s decision to allow a company owned by a global investment firm known for its close military ties to Israel to be involved in the management of 39 Malaysian airports.

In the strongest statement yet by local pro-Palestinian groups against Putrajaya’s apparent shift from a policy of zero tolerance towards Israel’s current military assault, the groups called on the government to reverse its decision to allow Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a company owned by controversial US asset manager BlackRock, to participate as part of a consortium in the takeover of Malaysia Airports (MAHB), the state-controlled company that operates 39 airports nationwide.

“The Malaysian government’s commendable support for the Palestinian cause will be seen to be merely hollow words, apart from allowing strategic and national assets such as our airports to be run by parties highly sympathetic to the Zionists,” said a joint statement by 15 groups including BDS Malaysia, the local chapter of the global movement to boycott Israel.

Under the plan confirmed this week, the government’s investment fund Khazanah Nasional and Employees Provident Fund (EPF) will be part of a consortium to take over MAHB, in which GIP will hold a 30% share.

Putrajaya warned against allowing a company owned by controversial US-based BlackRock to become a stakeholder in a consortium that will manage Malaysia’s 39 airports.

The groups warned that if the consortium materialised, Khazanah and EPF would be doing business with the “genocide-tainted and Zionist-supporting BlackRock”.

In January, New York-based BlackRock bought GIP for US$12.5 billion, adding a company with extensive experience in managing airports around the world to its list of global investments.

BlackRock’s involvement in greasing the Israeli war machine is well documented, and its New York headquarters has been the scene of protests by pro-Palestinian groups accusing the company of profiting from genocide.

The ongoing protests at US universities also targeted BlackRock, where students are demanding their universities to stop all dealings with the company because it is involved in strengthening Israel’s military might, which has been used in the bombardment of Gaza that has so far killed at least 30,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children.

Among the companies in which BlackRock has invested is Lockheed Martin, in which it holds a 7.4% stake.

Lockheed Martin, a US-based defence contractor with multi-billion dollar investments in the Israeli arms and aerospace industry, also recently hit the headlines in Malaysia after pro-Palestinian groups protested against its participation in Defence Services Asia (DSA) and National Security (Natsec) Asia in Kuala Lumpur last week.

Anwar dismisses protests

But just as Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has dismissed concerns over the involvement of Lockheed Martin and other defence contractors, he has also dismissed opposition politicians’ protests over BlackRock’s involvement in MAHB.

“There is nothing positive from them, only inciting hatred and envy,” the prime minister was quoted as saying today.

In their joint statement, the 15 groups said that BlackRock will have access to Malaysia’s strategic assets through GIP’s involvement.

“No ownership should be handed over to a foreign entity, much less one that has a bloody reputation like BlackRock,” they said, adding that BlackRock holds massive stakes in defence companies that are part of the US military-industrial complex.

“These are the companies that make the weapons Israel uses to murder Palestinians. BlackRock has also been heavily invested in Israel, with operations there since 2016,” the statement continued.

BlackRock’s continued investments in Israel make the company complicit in Israel’s genocidal policies against the Palestinians, it said.

“BlackRock has rightly been the target of Palestinian solidarity campaigns worldwide.

“In solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for justice and freedom, we demand the Malaysian government immediately reverse the decision to include genocide-supporting BlackRock in any business arrangement for MAHB.”

Source: https://www.malaysianow.com/news/2024/05/17/putrajaya-faces-mounting-condemnation-for-letting-firm-owned-by-genocide-tainted-blackrock-to-manage-local-airports

Harvard Faculty Overwhelmingly Vote to Allow Seniors Disciplined Over Encampment to Graduate

Members of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences overwhelmingly voted to add 13 students back to the list of degrees recommended for conferral in May after the students were initially barred from graduating at Commencement over their participation in the pro-Palestine encampment.

The vote, which took place at the FAS’ degree meeting Monday afternoon, amounted to a stunning rebuke of the Harvard College Administrative Board’s decision to suspend five students and place at least 20 more on probation for violating University policies during the 20-day encampment in Harvard Yard.

In total, 15 seniors were barred from graduating this spring by the Ad Board for their involvement in the encampment. Two of them were slated to graduate after the fall 2024 semester, however, so their degrees were not discussed at Monday’s meeting.

Six faculty members who were in attendance were granted anonymity to discuss the meeting, as the FAS’ degree meetings are not open to the press.

The matter will now be passed along to Harvard’s governing boards: the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers. According to the University’s governing statutes, following faculty approval, degrees are conferred “by vote of the Corporation, with the consent of the Overseers.”

A final decision on the seniors’ graduation statuses is expected to be made on Wednesday, as the boards convene each year on the day before Commencement.

The approved motion gave a harsh reality check to the Ad Board and its chair, Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana, saying that under Harvard’s governing statutes, the FAS “is the ultimate disciplinary body” for the College.

Citing the statutes, the motion also described the FAS as “the ultimate authority” on academic probation policies and degree conferral for Harvard College students — in effect, an assertion that the buck stops with the faculty.

Harvard’s Fifth Statute grants each faculty the ability to “delegate any of its powers relating to ordinary matters of administration and discipline,” and the Eleventh Statute assigns that power to an Administrative Board or similar body. However, the statutes assert that disciplinary committees remain “subject to the authority” of the faculties.

FAS spokesperson Holly J. Jensen and University spokesperson Jonathan L. Swain did not immediately comment for this article.

In a May 14 email to Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine organizers, interim Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 noted that the authority to administer disciplinary measures was “within the jurisdictions of the several faculties.” That email came days before the Ad Board announced its penalties — which student protesters interpreted as a reversal of their agreement with Garber, though he never explicitly promised leniency.

At Monday’s meeting, it was made clear to attendees that the motion did not, in fact, reverse Ad Board sanctions levied against students. Rather, it treated the question of whether their degrees would be granted as an independent matter.

Before the motion came up for a vote, one attendee spoke to ask a procedural question but all other speakers were in favor of the proposed action. Of the FAS’ 888 voting faculty members, FAS spokesperson Holly J. Jensen wrote that 115 attended the meeting — an unusually high turnout for proceedings that are usually pro forma.

Following the motion’s approval, Khurana spoke to “set the record straight” and defend the Ad Board’s decision, according to one of the faculty members who attended. He said the body had done its best under tough circumstances and that it had acted responsibly.

A faculty member spoke after the motion to argue that the procedure for changing the degree list had been rushed and speculated that — had more faculty been present — a higher proportion would have voted against the motion.

Nonetheless, many faculty across the University have expressed their disapproval of the Ad Board’s sanctions, including more than 350 who signed an open letter to Garber, FAS Dean Hopi E. Hoekstra, and Khurana.

The Monday letter slammed the penalties as “unprecedented, disproportionate, and arbitrary” and called on Harvard to reverse the Ad Board’s decision to sanction graduating seniors.

Source: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/5/21/faculty-vote-allow-suspended-seniors-graduate/

Tengku Mahkota Pahang opens UIAM’s Kuliyyah of Sustainable Tourism and Contemporary Languages

The Tengku Mahkota of Pahang, Tengku Hassanal Ibrahim Alam Shah Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah today officiated the opening of Kuliyyah of Sustainable Tourism and Contemporary Languages (KSTCL) of the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) Pagoh Campus here today (May 27).

The arrival of Tengku Hasanal Ibrahim at about 10.45am was received by IIUM president Tan Sri Samsudin Osman, IIUM rector Prof Emeritus Tan Sri Dzulkifli Abdul Razak and Muar district officer Hasrin Kamal Hashim.

Meanwhile, Samsudin said that today’s technology industry is very challenging, so it needs to be given attention by the team at the kuliyyah.

“Today, we are worried when we mention the Industrial Revolution. We are worried that this industry will dispose of human values or better known as the dehumanisation of men.

“Therefore, we should maintain good values and foundations so that we do not produce robots who are only good at talking but devoid of values, manners and morals,” he said.

He said that apart from the aspect of value, sustainability should also be given attention in order to maintain the sustainability of the environment in line with what the university has been fighting for all this time.

“If the focus is only on ways to develop tourism sites which leads to letting hills to be leveled and logs cut down without control, then it is very contrary to the meaning of sustainability that we have been fighting for all this time.

“Therefore, I also hope that the lecturers can play a role not only as instructors but also as mentors to ensure that students have the skills required by the industry and the community as well as noble values that can guide them in the increasingly challenging world of artificial intelligence ,” he said.

He said the balance between competence and integrity is the key to the country’s success today and in the future.

“Let’s not forget the earth when we reach for the sky but stay rooted so that we are always aware and remember about values, morals and identity,” he said.

In the meantime, the Communication, Advocacy and Promotion Office of UIAM in a statement said that KSTCL was previously known as Kuliyyah of Languages and Management (KLM) located at UIA Gombak Campus before moving to the Higher Education Hub, Bandar Pagoh University in 2017.

In March, the university received the approval for the rebranding of KLM to KSSTCL by the Higher Education Department, Higher Education Ministry and was approved in the IIUM Senate Meeting as well as the IIUM Board of Governors Meeting.

Source: https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2024/05/1055912/tengku-mahkota-pahang-opens-uiams-kuliyyah-sustainable-tourism-and

Hats off to our youths for standing against genocide

I HAVE a very good friend who lives in Gaza. She and her daughter once stayed in Malaysia for a few years because her husband studied at a university in Kuala Lumpur. I was also in Malaysia during those years, and we became friends.

On October 14, 2023, as the current scourge of genocidal mass killings began to ravage Gaza, I became desperate to know their condition. I sent her a message: ‘Sister, please tell me how you are. I am worried.’ Her reply was, ‘Thank God. I’m still alive. We are moving to Khan Younis.’ In the initial days of the ongoing genocide, Khan Younis was dubbed a ‘safe zone’ so I was relieved to hear that she and her family were moving there. At least they would be safe for the time being. We communicated with each other until November 21, 2023.

In December 2023, news broke that Israel had begun shelling Khan Younis after destroying much of the Gaza Strip. I sent her another message on December 2, 2023 and to my utter dismay, there was no reply. My message was not even delivered. Subsequent attempts to reach her went futile. I then tried to message another number, which I knew belonged to her daughter. Still, no reply. To this day, I do not know if they are alive or dead. Perhaps I will never find out.

As the days went by, I watched in horror the continuous brutality and arrogance of the Israeli apartheid regime, mass-murdering Palestinian children, women and men. Seismic images and recordings of mothers holding their dead babies, children screaming in pain and wounded all over, children being operated on without anaesthesia, and frantic men searching for family members under the rubble have become daily scenes for the global audience. At one point, I stopped watching or reading news, not because I stopped caring. It was too much to bear and the news was taking a toll on my mental health. I tried to channel my frustration by engaging in discussions with my academic and activist friends from other countries and organising online talks and discussions to solidify support for the Palestinian cause.

Each day, the same questions kept coming back: What can I really do? What is it that I can best do? I had once been outspoken about the Rohingya genocide and humanitarian crisis in Myanmar, the political suppression and human rights abuses in the Arab world (particularly Egypt), and other calamities that hit people across the globe, all stemming from political and economic injustices. I had once visited Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon in 2007 to learn about the Sabra and Shatila massacres that happened in 1982. I toured the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg in 2019 to explore the history of colonial and segregationist oppression in South Africa.

But this time, I felt paralysed witnessing the atrocities and cruelties inflicted upon the Palestinians, especially those in Gaza. There was, somewhere deep in my heart, a sense of despair. My inner voice whispered to me that dismantling the Israeli regime is an impossible task, and fighting the superpowers behind Israel is out of the question. Still, I dragged myself anyway to continue the work I was doing, but with much pessimism. Every moment felt like torture, and all I saw was darkness.

In such moments of despair, on April 17, New York Columbia University’s students began pitching tents on their campus, after which 108 students were arrested. What initially seemed like an isolated, sporadic event quickly transformed into a global movement. This time, I watched in awe as the encampment movement grew in speed, momentum and courage. My sense of hope got rejuvenated and my dying spirit was energized. It is becoming obvious now that the tide will continue to grow, and suppression will only cause more resistance. As I cry for the brave souls who were handcuffed and arrested and threatened and expelled with each episode of oppression and violence by the police that appears in the news, my conviction only grows stronger that we — everyone of us — need to speak the truth to power no matter what and despite the consequences

Scenes across the universities in the US are now becoming like those in Egypt. I lived in Egypt’s Alexandria for six years in the early 2000s and witnessed countless peaceful student demonstrations demanding for greater democracy, transparency and better governance, only to be met with suppression and outright brutality by the police and special forces. Some of those protesters were my friends and classmates, who were among the most brilliant students on campus. They had nothing but love for their country and concern for justice. If there’s anything I learn from these unfolding events and my past experiences, it is this: The youths are an incredible source of strength for our community. They are our biggest asset and our greatest hope.

The spirit of justice among the young protesters at US universities and their struggle for a better world have set examples for us to emulate. It made me realise two things: First, this is what we can do best: invest in the young people. Second, these students are, in fact, not students. They are our teachers because they are showing us what it means and how to be transformative. They are giving us real lessons that cannot be conveyed in the classroom setting by the most brilliant professors. This is what education is all about.

To the police force assaulting and harassing our young people and the cowardly authority hiding in their ivory towers, where is our freedom of expression? Will there be any accountability for these unwarranted arrests and brutality against the innocent?

Source: https://www.newagebd.net/post/opinion/235645/hats-off-to-our-youths-for-standing-against-genocide

Tengku Mahkota Pahang rasmi Kuliyyah Pelancongan UIAM

engku Mahkota Pahang Tengku Hassanal Ibrahim Alam Shah Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah berkenan berangkat ke Majlis Perasmian Kuliyyah Pelancongan Mampan dan Bahasa Kontemporari (KSTCL) Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia (UIAM) Kampus Pagoh, di sini, hari ini.

Keberangkatan tiba baginda kira-kira 10.45 pagi disambut Presiden UIAM Tan Sri Samsudin Osman, Rektor UIAM Prof Emeritus Tan Sri Dzulkifli Abdul Razak dan Pegawai Daerah Muar Hasrin Kamal Hashim.

Samsudin dalam ucapannya berkata, asakan industri teknologi sangat mencabar, justeru perlu diberi perhatian oleh warga kuliyyah.

“Pada hari ini, kita perlu merasa bimbang apabila menyebut tentang Revolusi Perindustrian. Kita bimbang industri ini akan melupuskan nilai kemanusiaan atau dikenali dengan istilah ‘dehumanisation of men’.

“Justeru pertahankanlah nilai dan asas yang baik supaya kita tidak melahirkan robot yang hanya pandai berkata-kata, namun kosong dengan nilai, adab dan akhlak,” katanya.

Beliau berkata, di samping aspek nilai, kemampanan juga perlu diberikan perhatian bagi menjaga kelestarian alam sekitar sekali gus selari dengan apa yang diperjuangkan universiti itu selama ini.

“Jika tumpuan hanya diberikan kepada cara untuk membangunkan kawasan pelancongan, namun amat menyedihkan apabila bukit-bukau dibiarkan ditarah dan balak ditebang tanpa kawalan, maka hal itu amat bertentangan dengan maksud kemampanan yang kita perjuangkan selama ini,” katanya.

Sementara itu, Pejabat Komunikasi, Advokasi dan Promosi UIAM dalam kenyataan memaklumkan KSTCL sebelum ini dikenali dengan nama Kuliyyah Bahasa dan Pengurusan (KLM) terletak di UIA Kampus Gombak, sebelum berpindah ke Hab Pendidikan Tinggi, Bandar Universiti Pagoh pada 2017.

Pada Mac lalu, universiti itu menerima kelulusan penjenamaan semula KLM kepada KSSTCL oleh Jabatan Pendidikan Tinggi, Kementerian Pendidikan Tinggi dan diluluskan dalam Mesyuarat Senat UIAM serta Mesyuarat Ahli Lembaga Gabenor UIAM.

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Kembara Sihat UIAM santuni komuniti Orang Asli- [Harian Metro]

SPECIAL MEETING AND TOUR of IIUM GOMBAK CAMPUS by THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE MINISTRY OF HIGHER EDUCATION

Harvard Students, Faculty Denounce Suspensions of Pro-Palestine Protesters

Yale graduates stage pro-Palestinian walkout of commencement

Putrajaya faces mounting condemnation for letting firm owned by ‘genocide-tainted’ BlackRock to manage local airports

More questions greet BlackRock’s landing at Malaysian airports

Harvard Faculty Overwhelmingly Vote to Allow Seniors Disciplined Over Encampment to Graduate

Tengku Mahkota Pahang opens UIAM’s Kuliyyah of Sustainable Tourism and Contemporary Languages

Hats off to our youths for standing against genocide

Tengku Mahkota Pahang rasmi Kuliyyah Pelancongan UIAM

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