“Developing a liberal arts capacity will not only fulfil AKU’s founding vision, but it will also follow in the tradition of the great Islamic universities of past centuries, and their effort to expand, and to integrate a wide array of knowledge,” said Mawlana Hazar Imam, addressing the 26th Convocation of the Aga Khan University. “The liberal arts, I believe, can provide an ideal context for fostering interdisciplinary learning, nurturing critical thinking, inculcating ethical values, and helping students to learn how to go on learning about our ever-evolving universe.”
Marking several key milestones — including 30 years since it received its charter to become Pakistan’s first private international university — the AKU Convocation was presided over by its founder and Chancellor, Mawlana Hazar Imam. The Imam also announced the creation of seven graduate schools to be spread across countries in two continents that will complement existing programmes in education, medicine and nursing, as well as the two Faculties of Arts and Sciences being planned for Karachi and Arusha, Tanzania.
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