LUMS Blog

The "homecoming date debate" has been going on for around 2 years now. Basically the alumni abroad come to Pakistan typically in the dates between Dec 15th and Jan 15th and most people come for 2-3 weeks. Last year (2006) the homecoming was in November and most Alumni abroad missed it and then LUMS had to host a separate (small) event for them.

This year the situation is ironic as the date has (finally) been shifted to the appropriate time (Dec 15th - Jan 15th) but it is EXACTLY on Dec 15th and most of alumni abroad will land in Pakistan some days after Dec 15th.

LUMS side of the story is that keeping the homecoming in December provides a lot of operational problems (wedding season, internal clash with convocation) and this year Eid complicated things as well. We understand that the people at the homecoming department try their best to accommodate all of us and they get a lot of emails with each group stating their convenience, but maybe more importance should be given to the alumni abroad. The local alumni get to see each other more often to begin with and LUMS needs to foster it's international relations - for which the alumni abroad play a crucial role. Maybe from next year the alumni department can conduct a simple online survey before deciding on the date.

In any case the program for the evening sounds exciting (you know the drill) and is as follows:

We hope the homecoming is a success regardless of the date debate!