MOUAU VC’s Advice to Students during the 2018/2019 Orientation

MOUAU VC’s Advice to Students during the 2018/2019 Orientation Programme.

The Vice Chancellor of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike (MOUAU), Professor Francis O. Otunta, during the 2018/2019 orientation programme has adviced fresh students to maximize their studentship as they will achieve only the goal they set.

The Below is part of the Vice Chancellor’s speech during the orientation programme: 

It is with great delight that I welcome you all to the 24^th Orientation Programme for Fresh Students of this University. On behalf of the Governing Council, Management, Senate, Staff and the older Students of this University, I welcome you heartily to this great citadel of learning.

I also congratulate you for scaling all  the hurdles to secure admission into this University. Many other qualified candidates were not so fortunate. This immediately confers a heavy responsibility on you right from the onset, to settle down quickly and make the best out of this opportunity to acquire sound University education.

In the course of your studentship, we shall ensure that you are exposed to all the skills that you will require to function productively in an acutely competitive and challenging global environment.

How much you take away and the success you make out of this learning enterprise depends entirely on how clearly you have articulated your goals in life and the degree of your commitment and dedication to the achievement of these goals. Every season has its people, and every person has his/her own time. You are the people of this season. How you make use of this season is what history shall record for you.

The choice is clear: success or failure. Every generation has its own stock of successful and unsuccessful people, men and women who utilized or failed to utilize the opportunities before them. For the one group, life has so much to offer; for the other group, life after the University is full of frustration, regrets, bitterness and decline. If you are wise, you shall choose today, the path of success which is travelled by only disciplined and hardworking individuals.

This brings me to the other component of your training  here. This University insists on the character component that accompanies learning in order to make man a decent and moral being. The problems of this country are caused and exacerbated by the educated elite who are without character and who are driven by base, primordial, selfish and self-serving motives.

It is the determination of this University not to contribute this stock of deleterious manpower to this nation. We insist on wholesome, civilized behavior here, conduct that takes into account the greatest good for the greatest number at all times. Our University Anthem clearly states where we draw our strength from, and the ideals that drive us as an institution.

We have  zero tolerance for anti-social behaviours and tendencies as a University. As a consequence, cultism, examination malpractice, indecent dressing, extortion, violent behavior of any description, sexual harassment, prostitution and other manifestations of anti – social behavior have no place in this University.

Senate will deal decisively at all times with any student involved in such acts.

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