LAHORE: The Emerson University Multan (EUM) academic council has approved the establishment of six new faculties and 35 new departments in the campus.

Vice Chancellor Dr Shaukat Malik chaired the first meeting of the council held four days ago in the campus near Gol Bagh. The university was formed last year by the Punjab government by elevating the historic Emerson College.

The council unanimously approved all agenda items of the meeting, including laws of the council, rules of the semester system, finance and planning committees.

The council also approved establishment of six faculties in the campus including arts and social sciences, sciences, languages, Islamic studies, business administration, commerce, law and pharmacy.

The members of the council also approved establishing 35 departments under these faculties, admission rules for 2022, semester rules, discipline rules, and code of conduct and scholarships.

The council also nominated members of the discipline committee comprising Dr Zia Ahmad as member of English, finance and planning, Dr Ibrar of Urdu and Jam Mukhtar of botany.

The council also approved admission for different bachelor programmes on the basis of intermediate part-1 results.

Prof Shaukat Malik told Dawn though the university was established in 2021, no rules were made to run the institution.

He said since the EUM was facing shortage of teachers, the recruitment process would start soon.

Mr Malik said that the government had recently approved Rs 350 million for the development of the university.

He said Rs 110 million had been released so far.Besides the VC, other members of the academic council area Allama Iqbal Open University (Islamabad) VC Prof Ziaul Qayyum, Kohsar University (Murree) VC Dr Syed Habib Bukhari, Mihaj University School of English Dean Shafaat Yar Khan, Higher Education Department (HED) deputy secretary Asifa Sohail, Prof Dr Anwaar Ahmed, EUM registrar Prof Muhammad Nawaz, Botany Department president Prof Jam Mukhtar Hussain, Prof Zia Ahmed and EUM controller Dr Muhsmmad Ibrar.

Published in Dawn, July 26th, 2022