NUST Community Service Student represents Pakistan in Mexico at Talloires Network Leadership Conference

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Faizan Rashid, a student of SMME and active member of NUST Community Service Club , attended the Talloires Network Leadership Conference in Xalapa ,Veracruz , Mexico as a student fellow of their Elephant Initiative. He won a full scholarship to attend the conference in recognition of his community service efforts. The conference theme was about social responsibility and human dignity in higher education. There were various breakout sessions and plenary sessions on each respective day of the conference. Dialogue sessions were arranged in which the student delegates had to actively participate alongside the Rectors/VCs and faculty members from different universities.

He as a student fellow of the EI worked online with various mentors and five other students to prepare and facilitate an action-planning process at the conference for 11 weeks prior to the conference. At Xalapa, the student fellows prepared they’re own reflections and strategies, the results of the breakout sessions and notes of the dialogue sessions for their own student led plenary on the last day. They presented their findings , own reflections and the recommendations they all had for the academia leaders in how to make education more inclusive towards all kinds of people, enhance the civic responsibility of universities etc. One of the major aims was to provide a student perspective to all the matters discussed at the conference.