AMU team met the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, USA delegation at New Delhi

*ALIGARH March 31: *The AMU team led by the Vice Chancellor Prof. P. K.
Abdul Azis today met the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), USA
delegation at New Delhi and shared wide range discussion on collaboration
between American Universities and the Aligarh Muslim University.

The CIC consisted of America's top research universities consisting of
University of Wisconsin, Purdue University, Pennsylvania University, Ohio
University, University of Chicago, University of Illinois, Michigan State
University and University of Minnesota.

The discussion included facilitating more number of Master and doctoral
students to work in these Universities for short term periods, provision for
work for teachers is one to two years in the American Universities.

On the other hand, the American counterparts expressed interest in sending
American students for learning Persian, Urdu, Hindi, Arabic and other Indian
languages. They also showed interest in Indian history and culture and the
Unani system of medicine.

Another idea discussed was the scope of participants of these Universities
in the academic activities of special centres AMU plan to establish in West
Bengal and Kerala.

The idea of community colleges were also discussed that would encompass the
job oriented senior secondary and undergraduate programmes.

The seven-member CIC delegation included Prof. Tenneth Shatire, Director,
India Initiatives (Wisconsin University), Prof. Aseem Ansari, University of
Wisconsin, Wolfgang Schiloer, University of Illinois. AMU team included
Prof. M. Saleemuddin, Prof. Javed Akhtar and the Vice Chancellor Prof. P. K.
Abdul Azis.