Malaysian Delegation Visits NIU

Honorable Minister of Higher Education for Malaysia, Dato' Seri Mohamed Khaled bin Nordin visited NIU on May 20, 2011, with Vice Chancellor Dato' Daign Mohd. Nasir bin Daing Ibrahim and other dignitaries.

Provost Raymond W. Alden III and Vie Chancellor Dato' Daing Mohd. Nasir bin Daing Ibrahim sign a second-level Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on curricular matters in engineering technology.

Provost Alden and Vice Chancellor Daing exchange signed MOUs, as the Honorable Minister of Higher Education for Malaysia, Dato' Seri Mohamed Khaled bin Nordin, looks on -- along with Promod Vohra, Dean of Engineering & Engineering Technology, and Deborah Pierce, Associate Provost, International Programs

Vice Chancellor Daing presents a commemorative plaque to Provost Alden.

Group photo after signing and exchanging the Memorandum of Understanding. Left to Right: Promod Vohra, Dean of the College of Engineering & Engineering Technology; Omar Ghrayeb, Associate Dean of College of Engineering & Engineering Technology; Badhrulhisham Abdul Aziz, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Universiti Malaysia Pahang; Christopher McCord, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences; Raymond W. Alden III, Executive Vice President & Provost; the Honorable Dato' Seri Mohamed Khaled bin Nordin, Minister of Higher Education; Deborah Pierce, Associate Provost, Division of International Programs; Dato' Daing Mohamed Nasir bin Daing Ibrahim, Vice Chancellor of UMP; Morshidi bin Sirat, Deputy Director-General of Higher Education, Minisiter of Higher Education; and Roslan bin Jamaludin, Director, Education Malaysia Chicago.

NIU, UMP and the Ministry of Higher Education celebrate with a luncheon in the University Suite of the Holmes Student Center. Those attending posed later for a group photo.

For more photos from the visit please click here.

May 2011