We Demand Curtin University (WA, Australia) to Revoke Rosmah Mansor's Honorary Doctorate

- sign now
Goal : 3594 / 50000

Calling all Malaysians, Australians, Curtin and WAIT (former name of Curtin) current students and alumni from Curtin's campuses in Australia, Singapore and Malaysia to sign this petition to demand Curtin University revoke Rosmah Mansor's honorary doctorate.

Rosmah Mansor, the wife of current Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters for "her dedication to early education" and the "advancement of women" by Curtin University. Further details can be found at Curtin's media release: http://news.curtin.edu.au/media-releases/curtin-award-recognises-wife-of-malaysian-prime-minister/

We strongly disagree with Rosmah being given this distinguished award. We want Curtin Univerity to revoke Rosmah's doctorate, as per Section 5.3 in its Honorary Awards and Procedures Guidelines.

We deem Curtin's reply on 16 Feb as unsatisfactory (found here https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=341479882562770). It does not explain or convince us why Rosmah is worthy of such an award. We would like Curtin to revoke Rosmah's honorary doctorate on the basis that there's insufficient evidence as to how she was found worthy in the first place.

Curtin's Honorary Awards Policy and Procedures: http://policies.curtin.edu.au/policies/viewpolicy.cfm?id=33040871-ffc3-11dc-b853-253dc30d60f2

In Section 5:3 Revocation of Award: The Council may, at its sole discretion, revoke an Honorary Award if the recipient has engaged in activities which have brought disrepute to the University; or whose continued association with the University would bring disrepute to the University.

Further info on our page: https://www.facebook.com/BoycottCurtin

sign the petition

Sign with Sign with Sign with
OR

If you already have an account please sign in, otherwise register an account for free then sign the petition filling the fields below.
Email and the password will be your account data, you will be able to sign other petitions after logging in.

Privacy in the search engines? You can use a nickname:

Attention, the email address you supply must be valid in order to validate the signature, otherwise it will be deleted.

donate

Help keep Petition Online - Australia free!
Please consider making a small donation today. This will allow us to keep We Demand Curtin University (WA, Australia) to Revoke Rosmah Mansor's Honorary Doctorate alive and available to a wide audience.


Every cent you give goes toward maintaining the website and the petitions. Even a small contributions helps!
Support the Cause

information

2012-02-17 06:31:37Added on:

3 months ago 

CurtinAlumnus By:

People and Organizations In:


Petition target:
Curtin University


Petition community:
Malaysians, Australians, Curtin and WAIT (former name of Curtin) current students and alumni from Curtin's campuses in Australia, Singapore and Malaysia

 

tags

boycott, curtin, doctorate, honorary, malaysia, mansor, revoke, rosmah, university

 

share

Invite friends from your address book

 

embed codes

direct link

link for html

link for forum without title

link for forum with title

 

Widgets

728x90

 

468x60

 

336x280

 

125x125

 

 

 

 

 

latest signatures

browse all the signatures

related petitions

shoutbox

Referers

all sites linking this petition