Prof. Dr. Masoom Yasinzai, Rector, IIU chaired a meeting attended by Vice-Presidents and other senior University officials to review the progress on the matters emphasized by the Chancellor, IIU/ President of Pakistan during the meeting when IIUI delegation headed by the Rector and President called upon H.E. Dr. Arif Alvi, President of Islamic Republic of Pakistan / Chancellor, IIUI at the Aiwan-e-Sadr.
The Rector advised the Vice-Presidents and Deans to ensure compliance of the instructions of the Worthy Chancellor and put up pilot projects for “Open and Distance Learning (ODL)” by the Faculty of Basic and Applied Sciences; Faculty of Engineering and Technology; Faculty of Management Sciences; Center for Advanced Electronics and Photovoltaic Engineering (CAEPE) and Sulaiman bin Abdullah Aba Al-Khail Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Basic Sciences (SA-CIRBS).
It was discussed that awareness campaign will be launched by the Deans of Faculties to orient students, alumni and staff of the University about contribution of the Government of Pakistan towards financial outlay of the University in terms of fixed assets, physical infrastructure, development grants and cost incurred on academic activities by the University. It was also decided that a facilitative and welcoming environment will be created to assist the students and alumni to contribute to the University materially and with ideas. Rector, IIU stressed that academic programs be revamped by keeping in view of market input and by involving business / industrial leaders in order to link academia and industry for socio economic development of the Country.