Last Thursday, 13 July 2017, 40 IQAC Directors, Additional Directors and UGC-QAU visited the American International University-Bangladesh(AIUB) in connection with the training of these officials from 18 public and private universities. The organizers of this training, headed by Prof. Sanjoy, for these newly designated IQAC Directors and Additional Directors selected AIUB representing the private university and Dhaka University on behalf of the public university for the needed orientation on how AIUB operates its Institutional Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) in promoting Quality Assurance at the university level. The Honorable Vice Chancellor, Dr. Carmen Z. Lamagna, warmly welcomed all the visitors cum participants in the university’s Conference Room of the permanent campus. This was followed by individual introduction of the visitors and all those present in the Conference Room. The three Deans were also on hand to welcome the visitors and introduced themselves, namely: Prof. Dr. Tafazzal Hossain, VP Academics and Dean, FSIT, Prof. Dr. Siddique Hossain, Dean FE and Prof. Dr. Tazul Islam, Dean, FASS. Ms. Farheen Hasan, and Dr. ABM Ramatullah both additional Directors of AIUB IQAC. The IQAC orientation was conducted by Prof. Dr. Charles C. Villanueva, Pro Vice Chancellor, Director, IQAC through a video presentation of the AIUB Journey’s in QA which started in 2007, brief power pt. presentation on the utilization of data generated from the self-assessment activities of the program entities based on the 9 areas assessed by the 5 stakeholders: students, faculty, alumni, nonacademic and employers. The orientation was followed with open forum where some participants raised questions on how specific areas are being assessed like research, student’s performance, partnership with foreign universities and management support to faculty development including capacity building of both academic and nonacademic staff. The orientation ended with a vote of thanks and the presentation of souvenirs to the visitors.
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