- Prof. Seidu Al-hassan and members of Convocation of the UDS met for the first time since he assumed office as Vice-Chancellor on September 1, 2022.
- Below is as written by Abdul Hayi Moomen (University Relations) and published on uds.edu.gh with a few edits.
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On Friday, July 28, 2023, members of Convocation attended their very first meeting with Prof. Seidu Al-hassan since he took office as Vice-Chancellor on September 1, 2022, despite the torrential rains that visited Tamale, the Northern Regional Capital, the location of the Tamale Campus of the University for Development Studies, UDS, and the Central Administration Block of the University.
The venue was the Multipurpose Auditorium on the Tamale Campus. By the time the clock hit 9:00 am, the advertised time for the commencement of the meeting, the Vice-Chancellor and his Management team made up of the Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Felix Kofi Abagale, the Registrar, Mr. Nurudeen Issah Abubakar, the Director of Finance, Dr. Mohammed Hardi Shaibu, the Director of Internal Audit, Mr. Abukari Abdulai, the Director of Works and Physical Development, Ing. Kwame Debrah, and the University Librarian, Mr. Edwin Thompson had already arrived at the venue.
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Executives from a number of the Unions within the University Community, including UTAG, GAUA, FUSSAG, TEWU-TUC, TEWU-GH, and SSAUG-UDS, were present at the meeting.
The entire procedure was initiated by the Registrar, Mr. Nurudeen Issah Abubakar. In his opening remarks, he explained that the meeting had been planned to offer Prof. Seidu Al-hassan the chance to share his vision for the university with Convocation members and to hear their feedback, complaints, and ideas for how to carry it out.
When the Vice-chancellor was invited to speak, he chose to use the power of a PowerPoint presentation to put across his message. And he did so in his eloquent best, touching on issues affecting Academic Affairs, Human Resource, Physical Development, Finance, ICT, External Relations and Affiliations, Students’ Affairs, the UDS Guest House Ltd, Sports and Plans for the future.
The Vice-Chancellor informed members of convocation his preparedness to lead them to continue to be the platform that encourages rich intellectual discourse free of acrimony and mediocrity to formulate ideas that could accelerate the development of the university. He informed members that during his familiarization tour of the university he noticed the general passion, excellence and zeal with which members and the entire staff exhibited in contributing to the development of UDS.
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Prof. Seidu Al-hassan expressed confidence in Management’s intention to create workable plans to advance the strategic goals for UDS. He said there would be external engagement to solicit funding opportunities.
Prof. Seidu said he had already started an aggressive infrastructure drive to augment teaching and learning activities on the various campuses. He said if all members of the University Community, particularly, members of convocation carry out their duties with a touch of excellence, his vision of drawing on the energies of hard work, creativity and innovation to take UDS onto the global stage would soon become a reality.
After his address, some members of convocation expressed their views regarding how best they could contribute to the success of the University and also how their needs could be met. Genrally, the interactive session focused on sanitation on the various campuses, security, the lack of facilities for teaching and learning among others.
Story by:
Abdul Hayi Moomen (University Relations)
