SUST’s 3rd Convocation: A 12-year wait ends today

Shahjalal University of Science and Technology’s third convocation is today, 12 years after its last convocation.

Marking the auspicious event, the university authority has made grand preparations.

President Abdul Hamid, also chancellor of the university, will preside over the convocation while eminent scholar and writer Dr Syed Manzoorul Islam will address the graduates as convocation speaker.

A total of 6,750 students, who earned their honours, masters, MBBS, nursing, MS, MD and PhD degrees between the academic sessions of 2001-02 and 2010-11 from the university, have signed up for the convocation.

So far there are 4,617 students who earned their honours, 1,127 masters, 878 MBBS, 120 nursing, 6 MS and MD, and 2 PhD.

At the convocation, 20 students will receive President’s Gold Medal, while 89 students will receive Vice Chancellor’s Award.

The main event will be held at the university’s central field. The whole campus is decorated beautifully with lights, banners and festoons.

Shah Md Ashraf Siddiky, a student of sociology from 2000-2001 batch who is about to receive his masters degree, said, “It’s another opportunity to rejuvenate old memories of the campus after a very long period of waiting for the convocation.”

After starting academic activities in 1991, the university’s first convocation was arranged on April 29, 1998. The second convocation was held on December 6, 2007.

For last 12 years, it was a challenge for the university to organise the third convocation. Several attempts failed due to various reasons.

Vice Chancellor Professor Farid Uddin Ahmed said, “It was a great challenge to organise the convocation by overcoming a lot of hurdles and it’s a relief to arrange it after 12 years.”

“[I] hope the convocation is a huge success. We are now determined to organise convocations regularly, by arranging the 4th convocation within December this year,” he said.