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Request review at WP:AFCUniversity Community Transformation Centre (UCTC)
University Community Transformation Centre or UCTC is an effort to serve the communities through universities in Malaysia. The idea was first mooted during National Blue Ocean Strategy (NBOS) Summit on 21st November 2012 by the renowned management guru, Prof. Chan Kim. The idea was mobilizing the intellectual and physical resources of public universities to transform local communities. Lead by Ministry of Education, UCTC enabled a reconstruction of public universities and local community boundaries. UCTC serves as a community service centre within university campuses.

The reason why university is chosen to set up the centre was the intellectual and practical resources, large number of young and energetic students, highly educated faculty, very good infrastructure and campuses located throughout the country. Numerous benefits were expected such as:
 * engaging public universities in addressing local community issues
 * offering more research opportunities for faculty members
 * extracurricular activities and work experience for students

Basically there are five initiatives under UCTC, namely:
 * Helping faculty create the practical components for university courses
 * Connecting faculty and students to urban and rural transformation activities
 * Enabling local community members to access university courses and underutilized facilities
 * Engaging highly-qualified experts to teach short-term practical courses
 * Utilising intellectual & physical infrastructure of universities to promote entrepreneurship

The first university establishing UCTC is University Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM) namely on 12th March 2013. Up to December 2013, eight (8) Malaysian public university have set up its own UCTC.

The national level launch was made by YB Dato' Seri Idris Jusoh, Minister of Education II on the 30th November 2013 at Main Hall, Universiti Putra Malaysia.