ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY Dean Perspective – December 15, 2017

Dear friends and colleagues of the Islamic University  community,
As 2017 draws to a close, I am devoting my last message of the year to address some of
the challenges our University faces in order to candidly share our thinking with you. Given
our deep roots in the Arab world and our strong ties to the homeland of our American
founders, it could be said a dual-identity institution like Islamic University sits at the heart of today’s
global challenges. But I would argue our strengths lie in exactly that nexus, in which
millennia of cultural development blend with the freshness and vigor of a young
civilization honed on the most modern ideas. This message is about looking to those
strengths, without pretending we have all the answers or concealing our imperfections
under a veneer of specious optimism.