University of Liberia
Current Status of the University of Liberia
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The strategic mission of the University of Liberia is to prepare well qualified leaders for
teaching, research and public service, and to contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals for sustainable human development.
The University started the first trimester of its 2007-2008 academic year in April. About 15,000 students are currently enrolled. The 86th Commencement Convocation took place on April 4 2007 at the Fendall Campus. US. Ambassador Donald E. Boothdelivered the commencement address. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who is the Visitor of the University, led an array of government officials and other luminaries to the colorful program. Academic activities are ongoing on three campuses : the Capitol Hill (down town) in Monrovia, the A.M. Dogliotti School of Medicine in Sinkor, Monrovia, and the Fendall Campus - 14 miles northeast of Monrovia.
The University administration is now implementing many new initiatives based on a new Strategic Plan (2006-2011), including a US$ 25 million capital campaign to set up a reconstruction/endowment fund.
Short to medium term plans of the University include relocating the Colleges of Science and Technology, and Agriculture to its Fendall Campus located about 14 miles northeast of Monrovia. These two colleges have now moved to Fendall. The University buses agriculture and science students between the main and Fendall campuses. The governments of the United States and the People's Republic of China will renovate, and construct new buildings at the Fendall Campus respectively. Interested donations of new or used school buses in good running condition would be highly welcome.
As a post-war institution, the University has many additional needs, including faculty development, replacement of equipment and furniture, updated textbooks in strategic fields, for example, medicine, agriculture, law, educational administration, business and public administration, research methods in the social and natural sciences, and international studies. There is also a dire need for information technology, including the Internet, CD-ROMs, and web-ready computers.
If you would like to donate books and other needed items to the University, and you are located in the United States, please send items to:
Arhur Garbla / A & H Shipping
4610 Ingraham Street
Hyattsville, MD 20781
Tel: (301) 536-0486.
Donors outside of the U.S. should call Arthur Garbla / A & H Shipping in Liberia at 011-231-6-522-002 or 011-231-6-519-854 to make arrangements for shipment. They may also contact the Office of the President at 011-231-7-700-2379.
Mission of the University of Liberia
• To inculcate character, honesty, fair play, thrift and self-reliance, sense of responsibility and the love of God and of people.
• To encourage and develop in students the basic intellectual powers and tools that will prepare them effectively to live in a democratic society.
• To guide students into habits of critical and logical thinking and in the choice of vocation.
• To expose the students into problems of urban and rural areas, and a sympathetic understanding of agricultural life, and to stress the need for trained agriculturists.
• To emphasize the dignity of labor as an effective means of inducing every student to master a vocation while in school, regardless of future professional aspiration.
• To shift teaching and learning goals from academic or verbal aptitudes to other dimensions of human nature - artistic ability, mechanical aptitude and ingenuity, master skill and dexterity, social sensitivity and resourcefulness.
Given these goals, the University of Liberia must be;
• an institution where groups and individuals may actively enjoy Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Action.
• A center of learning where men and women of all races, classes and nations are given an equal chance to learn and achieve, and that learning and that achievement must be judged purely on the basis of merit.
• The leader in destroying the myths, fears and insecurities that destroy men and women and their relationship with one another. In this respect, knowledge, skill and deep abiding spirituality must be acquired in order to transform society for the betterment of all who comprise it.
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