Sam Kaye
The second Vice Chancellor (VC)of the Borno State University (BOSU) Professor Babagana Gutti has said that he would hit the ground running by placing all academic activities in the University on auto governance.
Prof Gutti said during a recent briefing with newsmen that it was his desire for the University community and the general public to be able to see what their wards were doing on campus at each time.
“Marks will be uploaded in real time and all parents and guardians will have access to them without waiting to hear from their wards.
“We shall work with partners and the media to achieve this because the media is part of the University and it is my intention to ensure that this University is one of the best in this country by the time my tenure ends.
“We will use the auto governance system to monitor what the students or members of the University community are doing at every time. I will ensure that technology, research and learning go together at all times.
” I expect students to register real time for their programs from any part of the country or the world. The truth is that most Universities do not have such facilities which makes the work very easy to handle for both management and the community.
“We shall present minute by minute development in the campus for the whole world to see as a Mark of transparency.” Said Gutti shortly after taking over the reigns of activities from the former acting VC Prof Haruna Dlakawa.
Earlier Acting Vice Chancellor Professor Haruna Dlakawa had said that he was excited and grateful to the visitor for giving him the opportunity to have served the University in an acting capacity on the exit of the pioneer VC Professor Umar Sandabe.
He asked the University community to forgive him wherever he had offended any of them during the period of acting capacity as the Vice Chancellor.
Unveiling his report card just before handing over, he said that the young University which started with just 30 programs have graduated it’s first set of graduates cutting across all the facilities..
“As at today, we have 835 staff employed directly by BOSU while 270 were absorbed from the Kashim Ibrahim College of Education. And because of the memorandum of understanding (MOU)we have signed with the University of Maiduguri 193 staff are on visiting appointments.
” Also, the University now has 19 professors on sabbaticals while the student population has risen up to 7,398 in the campus.
” I want to report to you that 26 physical development project has been executed so far on campus while some of them have been stalled temporarily and I will be calling on the second Vice chancellor to look into these projects.”
Highlights of the occasion was the handing over process which took place at the Senate chambers of the University in the presence of a cross section of Dons and the University community.