OU International Academic Advisory Committee meeting held

Hyderabad: The Osmania Foundation held its first International Academic Advisory Committee meeting on Monday. The participants included eminent alumni of the OU, including academicians from the USA, Deans of all Faculties and Principals from the campus and constituent colleges of Osmania University. Osmania University Vice-Chancellor Prof D Ravinder presided over the meeting.

The participating alumni reiterated and committed to contributing to their alma mater.

According to OU officials during the meeting, Professor Bhiksha Raj, School of Computer Science, CMU, Pittsburgh, USA, expressed interest in coming as a visiting faculty. Also, to offer to contribute, giving a three-credit course in Artificial Intelligence will be introduced at the University College of Engineering and will be mentoring the students.

The academia from the USA resolved to contribute to Osmania University, their alma mater, in a few areas, including –

upgrading the teaching-learning methods to global standards; collaborating for research and raising funds; facilitating

visiting faculty to float courses in the regular academics; conducting workshops to faculty and students during their visits to Hyderabad,

and acting as mentors to faculty and students using the web platform created by the Osmania Foundation.

Prof D Ravinder said similar exercises will be taken up with alumni from academia from the UK and other parts of the world. He also appealed to the deans and principals to fully utilise the services of the alumni to augment the teaching-learning process on par with global standards.