The administration of the VC Prof UU Chukwumaeze SAN upon assumption of office as the substantive VC, thought of the need to re-invigorate and re-strategise the University Endowment sector with a new DIRECTOR to afford the directorate the opportunity to play an active role in helping the administration attain the vision of our founding fathers.
By content and desires, ENDOWMENT is a strategy to raise funds for scholarship, visibility and collaborations with individuals, corporate bodies and institutions across the globe to increase excellence in scholarship and research in the State, Nigeria and the global community at large. Since Imo State, is the human resource CAPITAL base of NIGERIA , attempts to sustain this enviable positions requires the contributions of all and sundry.
The directorate provides juicy avenues for public spirited individuals, corporate bodies and institutions within and in diaspora to grow our staff and students skills, infrastructure and research output to compete with the very best in the world.
Areas of critical needs of the University include:
Building Endowment
Here the University seeks support from philanthropic individuals and organisations to help finance buildings for immediate academic and administrative use, since the University is grossly deficient in these areas. This has severely limited our drive for excellence with comparable Universities.
Infrastructural Endowments
This specific area challenges our benefactors to help fill the gaps in infrastructure including: equipments, chemicals, pews, campus Beautification and landscaping, street lights and resource materials - to name but a few - to enable staff and students maximise our potentials in intellectual and academic excellence to the fullest.
Research Endowment CHAIR
This is conceived for Benefactors to institute a research Endowment for solving immediate problems affecting the society/service outfits/industrial concerns for political, economic and industrial quantum leap forward to Imo State, SouthEast,vNigerians at large and the international community.
Best Graduating Students Endowment
This is meant to reward hardwork, scholarship and academic excellence by placing a monetary rewards of ₦1m and award certificate with our Donor s name to all Best graduating students in Departments
The target is to have sponsors for a term period of 10yearr for each Department/Faculty to entrench academic competition at the highest levels.
Disease/Health Endowment
Here provides opportunities for well meaning Nigerians whose interest is in funding works or projects on specific disease plaguing our population in terms of occurrence, management strategies and prevention in age groups. This will put the University in the forefront of disease epidemiological map in Nigeria and beyond
Staff/Student Exchange Endowment
This seeks to facilitate 3 months, 6 months, 9 months and or 12 months exchange programme to encourage skill development, technical and cultural collaborations between academic, administrative personnel and students of our University and others institutions of higher learnings across the globe. Such exchange programme are facilitated by the hosting University, Alumni, public spirited individuals and organisations within and in diaspora
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Conclusion
The directorate of University Endowment has largely been in coma or at best have diverted interest in the past to areas that were largely unproductive.
With the deft touch of the Vice Chancellor, it is now motivated to garner public interest into funding vast areas of interventions, since government, cannot fund Imo State University in all ramifications even with the best of intentions.
The Directorate of University Endowment seeks to meet these shortfalls by mobilising public spirited individuals and organisations to come to our aid. Indeed help is very much on the way.
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