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Leading with Purpose
Messages of the Vice Chancellor MESSAGES OF THE VICE CHANCELLOR

01 Important Message by the
MESSAGE NO.
Vice Chancellor

Dear Campus Community,
31 DECEMBER 2023
Wishing all of you the best of health.
As we near the end of 2023 and await the dawn of the new year of 2024, new challenges
and opportunities abound.
My return to the university as the Vice Chancellor has been a great honour, and as I
approach my first 60 days in leading the university, I would like to express my thanks
and gratitude to all of you in working together with steadfast and unyielding support
and dedication as we strive to achieve more.
My main message and focus moving forward is to transform the university into a world
class institution that is pillared by a future driven workforce and a capable and united
pool of talents in charting new frontiers of eminence.

Throughout my first 60 days, my core message has always been clear, unwavering
and consistent, that is to seek a renewed strategic pathway of forward-looking
transformation both in systemic and structural settings in building resilience and
agility in facing a new spectrum of challenges and demands of the future, and to
tackle our deep-rooted incompetencies and practices that have made us our own
2 biggest enemy.

Under my leadership, we will ensure that we will not be complacent in our policy
planning and implementation.
1. In all the engagements and meetings with the campus community ranging from
official Mesyuarat Jawatankuasa Pengurusan and official meetings with the
departments and deans, to informal visits and interactions with the staff and
students, I have been carrying the same and consistent message: our critical
need to transform and break away from the past and for UM to be the main driver
of change for the nation and the world, with the audacity to lead and create the
bold new changes for humanity.
2. We are not in the position to be trapped in the dogma and trapping of the past.
Shifting trends of the higher education industry, demographic outlines and
geopolitical essence have been rapid and ferocious.
3. We cannot and will not be limited by our conventional systems of the past and
the trap of our ingrained fixed mindset and practices that have at times hampered
our true potential.
4. Universiti Malaya must not be confined only to the physical boundary of being in
the Klang Valley alone. The core essence of our knowledge and research creation
and capacity that has produced global leaders and revolutionised the realm of
intellectualism must be well resonated and represented throughout the diverse
geographical parts of the world.
5. What is important is our culture and celebration of knowledge cultivation and
our brand of top quality academic and research excellence that must be truly
expanded and felt throughout the world.
6. This is only made possible with the right and dedicated human capital that we
will have, and in ensuring that we export our brand of world class education and