{"id":277794,"date":"2026-02-10T00:25:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=277794"},"modified":"2026-02-10T00:25:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:55:40","slug":"hu-vc-honoured-with-iconic-leadership-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/hu-vc-honoured-with-iconic-leadership-award\/","title":{"rendered":"HU VC honoured with &#8216;Iconic Leadership award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>GUWAHATI, 9 Feb:<\/strong> Himalayan University (HU) Vice-Chancellor Prof Prakash Divakaran was conferred the &#8216;Iconic Leadership in Higher Education-2026&#8217; award at the Education Leadership Summit and Awards-2026 event held in Guwahati, Assam.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The award was presented in recognition of Prof Divakaran&#8217;s &#8220;exemplary leadership, academic vision, and significant contributions to the advancement of higher education in India,&#8221; the HU informed in a release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The honour acknowledges his sustained efforts in strengthening institutional governance, promoting academic excellence, fostering research culture, and encouraging innovation-driven, student-centric education, it said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Education Leadership Summit &amp; Awards was organised by ArdorComm Media Group and witnessed participation of education leaders, policymakers, academicians, and industry stakeholders from across the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prof Divakaran dedicated the award to the collective efforts of faculty members, researchers, staff, and students of the HU.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He reaffirmed his commitment to building &#8220;inclusive, future-ready higher education institutions, aligned with national and global academic standards,&#8221; the release stated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUWAHATI, 9 Feb: Himalayan University (HU) Vice-Chancellor Prof Prakash Divakaran was conferred the &#8216;Iconic Leadership in Higher Education-2026&#8217; award at the Education Leadership Summit and Awards-2026 event held in Guwahati, Assam. The award was presented in recognition of Prof Divakaran&#8217;s &#8220;exemplary leadership, academic vision, and significant contributions to the advancement of higher education in India,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-277794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277796,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277794\/revisions\/277796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}