Message from the Vice Chancellor

As we begin a new year, I extend warm greetings to our students, faculty, and staff, and a special welcome to those newly joining the University of Global Village. For our new students, this marks the beginning of an important academic journey—one that will shape skills, deepen understanding, and prepare you for responsible engagement with society. You are now part of a community committed to learning, integrity, and thoughtful inquiry. I encourage you to approach your studies with curiosity guided by discipline, and ambition grounded in respect for the academic environment.

This academic beginning unfolds at a time when our nation is undergoing visible transitions. In these circumstances, UGV students have shown commendable awareness and engagement, for which I express my sincere appreciation. Yet periods of transition also require reflection. Universities exist not to amplify immediacy, but to temper it with understanding. I therefore urge our students to help preserve UGV as a space for calm reflection and purposeful learning. The time you spend here—shaping judgment, refining skills, and cultivating intellectual habits—is precious and should not be diminished by haste or distraction.

Let our classrooms remain places where ideas are carefully examined rather than used for persuasion, and let our campus remain devoted to disciplined inquiry rather than diverted attention. Education requires a measured distance from urgency so that understanding may mature rather than fragment. This moment calls above all for focus, patience, and thoughtful engagement. It is equally important to recognize that when the academic environment is disrupted, it is often general students who bear the greatest cost—many of whom pursue their education through significant personal and family sacrifice. Interruptions to orderly teaching, learning, and research risk undermining their time, effort, and financial commitment, and may invite stricter regulatory responses. Safeguarding academic continuity and institutional stability is therefore a shared responsibility, essential to protecting students and sustaining the university’s core mission.

A serious commitment to study remains among the most meaningful contributions one can make to the country. Knowledge pursued with care and integrity becomes capacity—the capacity to serve, to lead, and to respond wisely to uncertainty. Learning, in this sense, is both a personal discipline and a civic responsibility. Many young people hold a hopeful vision of a Bangladesh that is confident, just, and humane. Such a vision is sustained not by urgency alone, but by patience, ethical restraint, and sustained effort. Universities exist to transform aspiration into competence, and conviction into wisdom. UGV remains committed to nurturing knowledge and skills that meet global standards while remaining rooted in independence of thought. A good university becomes great through sustained commitment to teaching, research, and collaboration. I commend UGV’s efforts to produce relevant research and meaningful academic publications. Guided by our motto, Excellence without Compromise, we must remember that good is often the enemy of great. Our collective task is to establish UGV as a beacon of quality education—not only in the Barisal region, but across the nation. This requires creativity, discipline, and shared purpose. No single individual can steer a university alone; progress depends on an academic community working together toward a common goal.

I offer my sincere gratitude to the Board of Trustees for their continued guidance and support. I am honoured to serve as Vice Chancellor of this university and to uphold its mission. Let us remain committed to work that values depth over display, patience over haste, and understanding over immediacy. Through such commitment, the University of Global Village will continue to contribute—quietly, responsibly, and enduringly—to the future of Bangladesh.