Renaming UiTM after its first director could improve mindset of Malays: IIUM professor

PETALING JAYA: Should Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) be renamed Arshad Ayub University? Some believe it should, since the late Tun Arshad Ayub, who passed away on June 14, was not only one of the country’s revered educationists but also its first director.

International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilisation professor at International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Prof Datuk Dr Ahmad Murad Merican, said renaming UiTM could achieve the objective of changing the mindset of many that the institution is “keramat” (sacred).