Badiul Alam

Muhammad Badiul Alam (born 28 February 1949) is a Bangladeshi academic who served as the 13th vice chancellor of the University of Chittagong.

Early life and education Alam was born in Maheshkhali, Cox's Bazar district, in 1949. He completed his undergraduate degree at the Chittagong Government College and his M.A. in political science at the University of Dhaka in 1969. He obtained a second M.A. in political science at the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 1977. He did his PhD in political science at the University of Delhi, India, in 1986.

Alam served as dean and head of the Department of Political Science at the University of Chittagong and was the president of the Bangladesh Political Science Association. incorporating new technologies in education in order to "survive in the competitive world". He was replaced by Yusuf Alam in 2009, before completing a four-year tenure.

Alam was president of the Bangladesh Political Science Association from 1990 to 1992. He has served as executive editor of Chittagong University Studies, as a member of the editorial board of Bangladesh Political Studies, and as a member of the advisory board of the Bangladesh Research Foundation Journal. In 1984, he was a fellow at the International Centre for Asian Studies in Hong Kong. He had previously been a visiting fellow at the Indian Council of Social Science Research in New Delhi, India.

His areas of study include governance in South and Southeast Asia, social change and development, comparative political systems, democracy and authoritarianism, and globalization.

2009 University of Chittagong strike In 2009, the Bangladesh Chhatra League demanded Badiul's resignation as vice-chancellor, stating that the VC had "failed to ensure the co-existence of all student bodies and their security on campus". BCL-affiliated students also accused him of patronizing Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir and of corruption, to enforce disciplinary measures.

Awards and accolades Alam received a gold medal for Bangladesh in 2006 and an Order of International Ambassadors (OIA) Medal in 2008 from the now-defunct vanity award publisher American Biographical Institute for his contributions to social and educational development in Bangladesh.

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