The 3rd ACD-MBA Working Committee Meeting held on 18 December, 2018.

The meeting was

hosted by Our Lady of Fatima University, Philippines. Prof Dr Caroline S. Enriquez, President of
Our Lady of Fatima University along with Prof Dr Ignacio Cordova, Prof Dr Rodehlia Macaspac
and team arranged this working committee meeting as a member country University of ACD-
MBA. The working committee meeting was facilitated by Prof Dato’ Dr Ansary Ahmed,
President of Asia e University. Representative from all the member country Universities were
also attend this workshop. In this workshop several decisions were made regarding some
academic and administrative matters that include the selection ACD-MBA Programme
Coordinators for each of the member countries where Dr. Mohammed Masum Iqbal was elected
as Coordinator from Daffodil International University. New student applications link also
developed as: https://acd-un.aeu.edu.my. They asked to develop a Microsite at each member
country University Portal. The entry requirements for this program were also finalized. It was
also decided whether there is any English proficiency requirement by member universities. It
was mentioned that language of delivery for all participating universities is English. Documents
required for application to ACD-MBA Programme will be according to the standards of each
university. No documents are required for students to apply for selective courses (single course)
to any other partner university of ACD-MBA Programme. With the consent of all participating
members some academic issues were agreed that includes Academic Calendar, number of
learning weeks, Number of Learning hours, same principle in calculating Learning Hours, Target
date for the ACD-MBA to commence, Modes of Delivery , Learning and assessment modes, etc.
Their target is to make the programme different by using Key Opinion Leader (KOL) approaches
like: include Asian centric-ness in the courses, multimode of campus, engage business
community, and invent new courses under ACD umbrella and so on. Moreover the fees structure,
regulations for dual certificate also settled in that session. In almost all the academic and
administrative issues stated above, it was decided to follow member universities own policy and
guidelines respectively. At last it was also agreed by the ACD member universities that there
should be a common brochure for ACD-MBA programme for all member universities.