CHATTOGRAM, BANGLADESH – Media OutReach – After a three-year hiatus due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 1,500 people including graduates from the classes of 2020, 2021 and 2022, faculty and staff, and Bangladeshi and international guests will gather at the event. an outdoor venue on the campus of the Asian University for Women (AUW) in Chittagong’s Baizid Area to celebrate the 10th class graduation ceremony.
Flags of all 19 countries where students study at AUW will adorn the path leading to the site and passages of each country’s national anthem will be sung by the AUW Choir in a symbolic appeal. symbol of unity. The ceremony will be held within one hundred meters of the new Campus Center building, designed by renowned architect Moshe Safdie and under construction.
John Edward Sexton, President Emeritus of New York University (NYU), former President of NYU Law School and Director of the Global University Network will be the keynote speaker at the graduation ceremony. 10 by AUW.
486 students from Afghanistan; Bangladesh; Bhutan; Cambodia; Chinese mainland; Indonesia; Myanmar; Nepal; Pakistan; Palestine; Senegal; Sri Lanka; Syria; and Vietnam will be awarded a university degree. Dr. Rubana Huq Vice-Chancellor will chair the awarding.
Chaired by Ms. Cherie Blair, Chancellor, international human rights lawyer and wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Chairman of the Board Dr. Dipu Moni (also Bangladeshi Minister of Education) , Professor John Edward Sexton, President Emeritus of New York University (NYU); The former NYU Law School dean will be awarded an honorary Doctor of Humanities and Social Sciences in recognition of his extraordinary contributions to global higher education as an architect, spearheaded and witnessed the construction of new NYU centers in Abu Dhabi, Shanghai and many other parts of the world.
Professors Sunil Amrith, Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History at Yale University in the US and Professor Rupa Viswanath, Professor of Indian Religion at the University of Göttingen (Germany) will also be named Distinguished Professor Emeritus. by AUW
Also at its 10th class graduation ceremony, AUW will announce a number of new key initiatives, which are:
School of Apparel and Retail Management, OW (OW School of Apparel & Retail Management) – HSBC. Charitably funded by Shanghai Hong Kong Banking Corporation (HSBC), the new AUW Retail & Apparel Management School – HSBC will offer a Master of Science in Retail and Apparel Management in a year. Led by the Global Academic Committee chaired by Dr. Dipak Jain, former Dean of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management (who also served as Dean of INSEAD in Fontainbleau, France), this new Master’s Program will prepare young female professionals with expertise in fashion, merchandising, supply chain management, brand management, and occupational health and safety issues.
The school aims to help the burgeoning ready-to-wear industry attract more female talent in management roles. This new initiative builds on an ongoing program at AUW, originally created with funding from the Ikea Foundation, to academically prepare and attract talented industry employees. enrolled in an undergraduate program at AUW.
Dalit . Education and Empowerment Program (Dalit Education & Empowerment Program). OW committed to starting a decade-long special initiative to support the education and empowerment of 600 young women from Dalit families across the globe. throughout South Asia.
New majors in (i) Humanities and Social Sciences and (ii) Computer Science. In the fall of 2023, AUW will introduce two new undergraduate majors. The Humanities and Social Sciences major will include the study of Literature, History, Religion and Philosophy. The Computer Science major will follow the curriculum structure and content from leading undergraduate computer science programs and will be taught in a hybrid (face-to-face-online) format, with participation of both permanent and non-resident faculty.
The President of Mathematics named after Mariam Mirzakhani. AUW will establish a mathematics privileged position in the name of Mariam Mirzakhani, an Iranian mathematician trained at Sharif University in Iran and Harvard University in the US, who won the Fields Medal before her death for the cause. cancer.
Following the graduation ceremony of the 10th class of AUW will be a two-day international conference with the theme “Can Universities Shape Society? Reflections, Ideas, and Dreams” Can universities shape society? Reflections, Ideas and Dreams. The conference was dedicated to the memory of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Iranian woman who was murdered while in the custody of the State authorities in the Islamic Republic of Iran on September 22, 2022 after being detained by the Ethics Police of Iran. The country arrested her for lack of a full headscarf. The AUW leadership hopes that, by dedicating the conference to Mahsa Amini, more people will be inspired to fight against the unbearable injustice against women everywhere. Let’s promote the idea “Women, Life, Freedom!”.
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Information about Asian University for Women (AUW)
Founded in 2008 and located in Chittagong, Bangladesh, AUW is the first of its kind: a regional organization dedicated to educating and developing women’s leadership, through faculty education studies and the liberal arts. It is an international perspective but rooted in the context and aspirations of the Asian people. Administered by the Parliament of Bangladesh, AUW exists solely to support a growing network of women leaders, entrepreneurs and changemakers from across the region. AUW looks for women who demonstrate significant academic achievement and potential, demonstrate courage and a sense of outrage at injustice, and empathize with the difficult circumstances of others.
1322 students currently studying at AUW come from 18 countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Syria, Timor Leste, Vietnam South and Yemen. More than 85% of AUW students are on full or near-full scholarships funded by individuals and organizations from around the world. To date, the school has more than 1,000 graduates. The majority of AUW graduates find employment in the private and public sectors in their home countries, while around 25% go on to pursue graduate studies at tertiary institutions. world famous including Oxford, Cambridge, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, Columbia, Duke, Brandeis, Tufts….
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