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Sadeka Halim

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Sadeka Halim
সাদেকা হালিম
Halim in 2017
Vice-Chancellor of Jagannath University
In office
30 November 2023 – 11 August 2024
Preceded byMd. Imdadul Hoque
Personal details
NationalityBangladeshi
Parent
EducationPhD
Alma mater

Sadeka Halim is an academic. She is the former and first female vice-chancellor of Jagannath University, appointed by the President of Bangladesh since November 2023.[1] She was a professor at Dhaka University and the first female dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the university.[2] She is the first female to be the Information Commissioner of Bangladesh.[3][4][5][6]

Early life and education

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Halim's father, Fazlul Halim Chowdhury, was a vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka. She passed the SSC exam from Udyon High School and the HSC exam from Holy Cross High School and College in Dhaka. She graduated from the University of Dhaka.[7]

Career

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Halim at a discussion program at Dhaka Lit Fest 2017

In 1988, Halim was appointed as a teacher in the Department of Social Sciences at University of Dhaka. Later, she received a second postgraduate and PhD degree from McGill University of Canada with Commonwealth Scholarship in 2000.[8] She then completed the post-doctorate of the Commonwealth Staff Fellowship from the University of Bath of the United Kingdom. From July 2009 to June 2014, she served as the first woman information commissioner. Besides, she served as a syndicate member of the University of Dhaka from 2004 to 2009, and she was a member of the executive council of the Teachers' Association and three times a member of the Senate. She was a member of the National Education Policy Committee-18 of 2009 special educationists committee. About 50 research articles have been published in national and international journals. Issues related to gender equality, forest and land, development, indigenous issues, rights of human rights and information.[9][10][11][12]

In September 2022, the government broke the trustee board of Manarat International University and created a new board which included Halim.[13] In 2022, she became a member of Awami League Advisory Council.[14]

She resigned as a VC of JnU on 11 August 2024, amid student protests.[15][16]

Controversy

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Different public universities teacher have raised allegations of plagiarism in a research paper produced by Halim.[17] Later, she issued legal notice against a Dhaka University (DU) reporter along with four others for publishing news of allegedly plagiarism in her research paper.[18]

Published books

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  • Chetonayonei Unnayun : Bangladeshi Nijera Kori'r Obhiggota
  • Development as Conscientization : The Case of Nijera Kori in Bangladesh
  • Life and Land of Adibashis : Land Dispossession and Alienation of Adibshis in the plain Districts of Bangladesh

References

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  1. ^ "Professor Sadeka Halim appointed as JnU VC". newagebd.net. 30 November 2023.
  2. ^ ঢাবি সামাজিক বিজ্ঞান অনুষদের প্রথম নারী ডিন সাদেকা হালিম. bdnews24.com (in Bengali). 13 December 2017. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  3. ^ "University of Dhaka -- the highest echelon of academic excellence". du.ac.bd.
  4. ^ "Dr. Sadeka Halim – ITHS Bangla Olympiad". banglaolympiad.org.
  5. ^ ঢাবি সামাজিক বিজ্ঞানের ভারপ্রাপ্ত ডিন সাদেকা হালিম. bdnews24.com (in Bengali).
  6. ^ প্রফেসর ড সাদেকা হালিম - ঢাকা জেলা - ঢাকা জেলা. dhaka.gov.bd (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 4 October 2017. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  7. ^ সাদেকা হালিম - মতামত. bdnews24.com (Opinion) (in Bengali). 27 September 2014. Archived from the original on 29 September 2017. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  8. ^ "JnU gets first female VC". The Daily Star. 30 November 2023. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  9. ^ ড. সাদেকা হালিম - Golden Femina
  10. ^ সাদেকা হালিম - মাল্টিমিডিয়া (in Bengali). Deutsche Welle. 29 February 2016.
  11. ^ রাজনৈতিক ক্ষমতা ছাড়া এ ধরনের পরিস্থতি তৈরি সম্ভব না: সাদেকা হালিম. Bangla Tribune (in Bengali).
  12. ^ কাজপাগল সাদেকা (in Bengali). 12 July 2016.
  13. ^ Rahaman, Arafat (9 September 2022). "Manarat University: Govt reconstitutes trustee board over 'militancy links'". The Daily Star. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  14. ^ "Sadeka Halim, Farzana Islam made AL Advisory Council members". The Daily Observer. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  15. ^ "JnU VC Dr Sadeka resigns". The Daily Observer. 11 August 2024. Archived from the original on 11 August 2024.
  16. ^ "JnU students give 24-hr ultimatum to VC, proctorial body, provosts to resign". unb.com.bd. 11 August 2024.
  17. ^ "DU indifferent to plagiarism". New Age. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  18. ^ Uddin, Minhaj. "Journo gets legal notice for news of plagiarism in research". The Report (in Bengali). Retrieved 2 January 2023.
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