Editorial: USM Apex University Status: Transforming Higher Education For A Sustainable Tomorrow

This special editorial for the month of January 2009 is “THE” interview with Professor Tan SriDato’ Dzulkifli Abdul Razak, Vice Chancellor of the Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). He talked to usabout the Apex University status that was conferred on 3rd September 2008. While most newspapersand the rest of the media were in frenzy interviewing him that month, MJMS decided to catch up withhim on Monday 15th December 2008 just before the celebration at the Dewan Utama, Universiti SainsMalaysia Health Sciences Campus to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the establishment of theHospital University Sains Malaysia by Yang Berhormat, Minister of Higher Education Datuk SeriMohamed Khaled Nordin. References to USM as an APEX University are included at the end of thiseditorial especially for non-USM readers