More campuses for UCC

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04-08-08

THE University of Cape Coast (UCC) is making efforts to set up campuses in other regions of the country, the outgoing Vice Chancellor of UCC, Rev Prof. Emmanuel Adow Obeng, has announced.
In line with this, he said the university had secured plots of lands in Tamale, Sunyani, Kumasi and Koforidua.
Although there was a comprehensive plan to that effect with the Centre for Continuing Education at the university, the only problem was financing, he noted.
Rev Prof. Adow Obeng made this known at the maiden meeting of the alumni of the UCC School of Business in Accra and said "we want to put up classrooms and other structures so that we can have a campus in each region".
The outgoing Vice Chancellor, who was happy with the turnout of the alumni at the meeting, said he had for the past seven years been trying to get the support of the alumni.
He regretted that some of the old students had vowed not to have anything to do with the university because of the bad experiences they had while on campus, and advised them to put that behind them and endeavour to support the university.
Rev Prof. Adow Obeng said even though some lecturers could be difficult and might frustrate and victimise students, whenever such issues came to the attention of the authorities, steps were taken to address them.
"Whenever such things come to our attention, we take action to address them. That should not make you have bad memories of the university," he appealed, saying that the university was now a "university of choice".
The Dean of the UCC School of Business, Mr Edward Marfo-Yiadom, said the vision of the school was to be the foremost business school in Africa as it was committed to being the leader in business.
He said the school was initiating the entrepreneurship programme to provide technical assistance to small and micro enterprises and that the alumni should become the backbone of whatever the school did.
He said the School of Business was in the process of creating a database of alumni which would be updated annually.
The Registrar of the university, Mr Kofi Ohene, who chaired the function, urged the alumni to help provide an opportunity through which students could do their internship.
He commended the alumni for the high turnout at the meeting.
A five-member task force was picked to plan the formal inauguration of the alumni.
The school was established out of the Department of Business Studies in the 2003/2004 academic year. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in Business.
It has two departments, namely the Department of Accounting and Finance and the Department of Management Studies.