MU GAINS UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT MEMBERSHIP

MU GAINS UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT MEMBERSHIP

Unprecedented local and regional achievement accomplished by MU by gaining the United Nations Academic Membership (UNAI). With this membership, MU becomes one of 1500 academic and research institutions in over 145 state members to join this program.

The United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) is an initiative that aligns institutions of higher education with the United Nations in supporting and contributing to the realization of United Nations goals and mandates via implementing the ten UNAI principles:

1. A commitment to the principles inherent in the United Nations Charter as values that education seeks to promote and help fulfill;
2. A commitment to human rights, among them freedom of inquiry, opinion, and speech;
3. A commitment to educational opportunity for all people regardless of gender, race, religion or ethnicity;
4. A commitment to the opportunity for every interested individual to acquire the skills and knowledge necessary for the pursuit of higher education;
5. A commitment to building capacity in higher education systems across the world;
6. A commitment to encouraging global citizenship through education;
7. A commitment to advancing peace and conflict resolution through education;
8. A commitment to addressing issues of poverty through education;
9. A commitment to promoting sustainability through education;
10. A commitment to promoting inter-cultural dialogue and understanding, and the "unlearning" of intolerance, through education.

The membership was gained based on MU’s efforts in promoting the positive concepts of UN’s goals among the university staff and community members – an act that was recommended by the Committee of Rectors and Directors of Universities & Higher Education at GCC Countries.

MU rector, Dr. Khalid al-Muqren commended this accomplishment and attributed it to the cooperation of the university’s different sectors.