The LUMS female swimming team secured the 2^nd position at the 12^th Women Intervarsity, HEC. Simrah Nasir (BSc ’24) was recognised as the Best Player. The male team achieved the 4^th position in the 43^rd Men Intervarsity, HEC.

At the 59^th National Table Tennis Championships 2023, the women’s team clinched the bronze medal, with Fatima Khan ranking in the top 4 nationally in women’s table tennis.

Amani Jannat (BSc ’25) made history as the first female sports climber to represent Pakistan on the international stage.

Sara Tariq (BSc ’24) led her team to win the title at the Prime Minister’s Talent Hunt Squash Provincial League.

The Office of Co-Curricular Activities (CCA) at LUMS plays a crucial role in facilitating student engagement and growth beyond the classroom.

LUMS also encourages students to participate in international competitions such as international moot courts, Harvard Model United Nations (MUN), Turkish MUN, and others. These competitions provide students with a platform to showcase their talents on a global stage, interact with peers from different cultures, and gain a deeper understanding of international issues.

• New website https://caps.lums.edu.pk launched; a rich repository of resources tailored for students, faculty, and parents
• Provided mental health first aid training for faculty, staff, and advising units through skill-building workshops and sessions
• Introduced monthly on-campus psychiatric consultations for students, along with case conferences for counsellors
• Introduced data and research analysis to support policy-making processes

• Developed manuals for counselling, emergencis, psychological assessments, and operations
• Introduced quality assurance measures including monthly feedback from students
• Received Certificate of Appreciation from Monash University, Australia for being a placement provider for their Master’s in Counselling programme

This year, the Student Council focused on campus development, and improving the campus experience for students at LUMS. This included holding awareness events and activities such as open mic events, art therapy activities, a bingo night, support groups, a PCOS awareness session, a Meet and Greet with the CAPS team, and talks on critical issues of mental health and emotional wellbeing.

Campus development initiatives included renovation of the female side of the LUMS mosque, renovation of the female and male gyms, and establishing snooker rooms in the male and female hostels.

The Disciplinary Committee (DC) ensured student representation in academic and non-academic DC cases. The Mental Health Committee ensured that feedback was promptly shared with CAPS and helped students with appointments and emergency cases. The Food and Pricing Committee held regular meetings to ensure fair pricing and quality of food on campus eateries. The Diversity and Inclusion Committee held meetings with each school and the Office of Accessibility and Inclusion to improve the mechanism for academic accommodations and address the need for menstrual petitions.

To address the genocide in Palestine, the Council, alongside the Student Action Committee, held a solidarity walk on campus, as well as carrying out a fundraiser in collaboration with Al-Khidmat. During Ramadan, the Council collaborated with the LUMS Community Service Society to conduct iftar drives.

95% students were placed – out of which 71% of graduating batch was placed on jobs, while

9% pursued higher education. 6% prepared for tests (CSS, GRE etc.) and

5% opted for entrepreneurship as their careers.

• Collaborated with the MGSHSS Career Centre to conduct 13 in-class career readiness and exploration sessions in various courses for 1st and 4th year students from MGSHSS
• Launched a bi-weekly newsletter which compiles relevant job/internships opportunities, recruitment drives, career readiness workshops and other relevant announcements

• Launched the CSO helpdesk, to ensure all queries from students, LUMS community and external partners are addressed timely and appropriately
• Shared over 728 job and internship announcements through email and Connect Job Portal

• 200 new recruiters added to the CSO database, resulting in 2,000 hiring partners
• Facilitated 45 on-campus visits for employment with recruiting partners such as McKinsey, Kearney, Acasus, and many more

Student Success

The Student Success unit of the Office has the following objectives:

• Creating targeted programming for various student populations coming from different demographics/vulnerabilities at LUMS, so that all students can thrive irrespective of their background, resources or circumstances. The Student Success unit of OAASS has a joint partnership with the NOP Centre, called the Student Success Initiative, which currently runs 20+ different programmes under 3 diverse domains.
• Serving as an incubator to identify effective programmes that can be scaled from a limited target population to the entire LUMS community. This year the team focused on expanding peer tutoring support. Other initiatives have focused on identifying, tracking, and monitoring of vulnerable students through the Campus Case Manager and collaborating on Alumni Mentorship with the Office of Advancement.

In addition, the unit also serves as an internal institutional think tank by developing best practice research/guidelines to support other departments where SS may not be involved operationally.

Academic Advising

Delivery of Academic Advising remains the responsibility of each school where respective faculty, staff, and peer advisers work with students directly. The focus of the central advising unit is to strengthen undergraduate advising by working as a partner. It helps set university-wide standards and build capacity within the school’s current advising system to improve student support, experience and outcomes.

The Academic Advising unit spearheaded some central, cross-school initiatives including the following:

LUMS Advising Website was launched as a repository of resources for LUMS and beyond, containing handouts and 28 tipsheets on frequent concerns brought up by students, 19 major exploration guidebooks to guide declared and undeclared students, 21 industry-specific guides mentioning academic and non-academic requirements for different careers, and 16 graduate study handouts with input from 70 faculty and 120+ alumni. It also contained a designated page for academic leadership at other universities to refer to as an initiative of inter- university resource-sharing and mobilisation.

The Student Experience Survey was launched last year to gather data on advising-related questions and expanded this year to contain questions on campus resources, facilities, and well-being. This expansion allows us to gather data on the overall quality of student life on campus.

Coordination among schools and cross- pollination of ideas was strengthened by planning strategic planning committee (SPC) meetings/ retreats outside of the university every semester with all advising staff. Additionally, short meetings were conducted throughout the year with individual advisors/ schools as needed.

Alumni Mentorship Programme was launched in collaboration with Advancement. 70 seniors were matched with different mentors for guidance on career-related options, higher education, and entrepreneurship.