By Precious D Freeman
The United Methodist University (UMU) has embarked on a faculty housing unit which will enhance the relocation and the construction of the Graduation Pavilion on the Doemah Town Campus of the university in Margibi County.
Addressing a press conference in Monrovia yesterday, the president of the United Methodist University, Yar Donlah Gonway-Gono explained that in one year, they have implemented some infrastructural undertakings which include the renovated Science and Technology College, the construction of faculty housing unit on the Doemah Town Campus of the UMU, and it is also their plan to start Adult Professional Undergraduate Education (APUE).
According to her, they have succeeded in diversifying the curriculum of the United Methodist University from the traditional courses to globally realistic courses that do not only prepare the students but help to protect the world from climate change while enabling the graduates to create jobs.
Madam Gono added that Programs like the School of Marine Sciences and ICT College that will now include studies on telecommunications are just few of what they have achieved together as an institution.
“Though not new in Liberia, our graduate school is conducting classes online with professors around the world including a students’ focused exchanges between the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (OST) and the United Methodist University,” she boasted.
“Let me remind all of us including our stakeholders and partners that the wind of change that started blowing across the five campuses of the United Methodist University since June 22, 2021 and consummated in October 2021, has gotten stronger and fierce,” she maintained.
She stated further that the challenge from Bishop Samuel J. Quire, Jr. urging her not to be a “weak leader but at the same time not to be a wicked leader” during her investiture/induction has been tested over the last 365 days.
She noted that the task ahead is great and it would require the united efforts of the Board of Directors, Administration, Faculty, Staff, and Students at the United Methodist University.
“Prime among the many things that we must accomplish in the coming months is the completion of the faculty housing unit which will enhance our relocation and the construction of the Graduation Pavilion on the Doemah Town Campus of the university in Margibi County,” Dr. Gono reaffirmed.
Meanwhile, she is calling on the Board of Directors, Administration, Faculty, Staff, and Students of the UMU, especially the stakeholders and partners at home and abroad to join the leadership of the United Methodist University in moving the university forward, adding that their obligation to the university is settled and will ensure that quality education is delivered to the students.
