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Author: Roshada Hashim

ISBN: 9789670001708

Publication Year: 2023

Price: RM 75.00

Pages: 150 pp.

Language: English

Presented with an opportunity to become part of an exciting venture in an emerging university, Roshada Hashim took up the challenge of establishing Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia's (USIM) Internationalisation plan in 2013. 

What was suppose to be a two-year secondment eventually ended up with an uprooting from Penang to Negeri Sembilan.

With less than a decade to retirement, she decided to burn bridges and left Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) to join USIM, leaving behind her family, rewarding job and lifelong friends.

Finally, Solace is an account of an account of an academic's strive for career and spiritual fulfillment as she approached the last leg of her service with a passion for making a difference in the Higher Education landscape. 

She brought along the values and the educational philosophy espoused by the Accelerated Program for Excellence (APEX) agenda in USM to underpin it with Islam as the underlying principle.

She shares how she put together teams without the benefits of prior collegial relationships and initiatives that align the values of Islam with the current global agenda, such as Globalisation, the 4th Industrial Revolution (IR) and the sustainable Development Goals (SDG), to move Internationalisation as as Research and Innovation.

The narration is interspersed with reflections of past events, personal experiences an individuals, giving the book a personalised touch, some of which could well resonate with the reader.

We can only make our plans. but she revealed how her journey in USIM took an unprecedented twist which unfolded neatly as she reached the end of her illustrious career. For He planned, and there was finally, solace.