Dr. Ali Akbar Alikhani, Scientific Secretary of Moralist University congress, speaks in opening ceremony

The national congress on “Moralist University” was held in Allameh Amini Hall of University of Tehran on December 11 and 12, 2017. Dr. Sarsangi, Cultural Affairs Deputy of University of Tehran, and Dr. Ali Akbar Alikhani, Director of the Department of West Asia and North Africa Studies of the Faculty of World Studies, organized the congress.

Dr. Ali Akbar ALikhani was the speaker of the opening ceremony. “Morality is part of the human nature. Moralism is and executing moralist ideas in life is a responsibility for university. University is the place for educating the society’s administrators and elite. If university undergoes crisis, we will see ten times more difficult crises in the society, he said.

Eight meetings were held at the congress on “Moralist University” where scholars discussed principles of moralist university, organizational solutions to morals in higher education, research morals, challenges of moralist university, university’s social responsibility and morals in cyberspace, moralism in education and teacher-student relationship, university’s social-moral responsibility and student morality, and associations and cultural activities.