The naming ceremony of the recently-completed building of the Seeta Majeed School of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences (SLASS) was held at the Beaconhouse National University (BNU) on Thursday at its Tarogil Campus. Accomplished London-based investor and philanthropist Izzat Majeed was the chief guest while Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Asma Jahangir was the guest of honour at the occasion. Majeed, Asma, BNU Foundation Chairperson Nasreen Kasuri, former foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, BNUF Board of Directors members, along with Vice-Chancellor Sartaj Aziz, SLASS Dean Dr Hafiz A Pasha and renowned architect Nayyar Ali Dada unveiled the plaque bearing the name of the building, which is named after Majeed’s mother and finished with his generous donation to the cause of higher education in Pakistan.
The SLASS building was the second to be inaugurated at the fully-operational Tarogil Campus after the Mariam Dawood School of Visual Arts & Design (SVAD), which was inaugurated last year and caters to SVAD and BNU School of Architecture (BNUSA). The centrally air-conditioned building of SLASS was spread on a built-up area of 56,000 square feet. The block includes 18 classrooms, 10 state-of-the art computer labs and the BNU Data and Communication Centre to support 600-node computing capacity, video-conferencing and seminar/project rooms and an auditorium with a seating capacity of 170 people besides offices of faculty and staff.
The building will accommodate the recently shifted departments of liberal arts and economics under SLASS. The building was a recent addition to the world-class infrastructural edifice at the new campus designed by Dada.
