Registrar of the University of Ghana, Emelia Agyei-Mensah has encouraged the alumni community to broaden its membership and extend support to younger graduates of the University.
She was speaking at the University of Ghana Alumni Homecoming. The two-day event was filled with exciting activities, including a bonfire night and a torch procession on Friday, March 31st, 2023. The event also featured the unveiling of the garden of fame by Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo, his excellency the president of Ghana.
Mrs. Emelia Agyei-Mensah praised the efforts of the Alumni Association in expanding its membership and including the younger generation of alumni.
“We applaud the efforts of the Alumni Association to expand its membership, and especially to bring on board more of the younger generation of alumni. During our recent congregation ceremonies, we made a concerted effort to encourage the fresh graduates to sign up to join the Alumni Association. The Office of Institutional Advancement is also stepping up its efforts to revive alumni groups in various parts of the world. We are hopeful that these efforts will start using food soon, and we look forward to an expanded, more vibrant, even more vibrant alumni assist.”
Mrs. Agyei-Mensah expressed her satisfaction with the university’s conscious effort to include younger generations of alumni. She revealed that there are advances in reviving alumni groups all over the world.
“During our recent congregation ceremonies, we made a concerted effort to encourage the fresh graduates to sign up to join the Alumni Association. The Office of Institutional Advancement is also stepping up its efforts to revive alumni groups in various parts of the world. We are hopeful that these efforts will start using food soon, and we look forward to an expanded, more vibrant, even more vibrant alumni assist.”
The Registrar also highlighted on the drop out of brilliant students each year due to their inability to afford fees charged by the university.
She made an appeal to the alumni towards the support of students with special needs at the University.
“There are so many students who are brilliant, but then they are needy. We have so many students each year dropping out of school because they can not pay even the very general fees that we charge here in the university. We have so many of them deferring, having to stop their academic wake, to try to raise funds, to pay their fees to for their upkeep. I urge those of you gathered here today to give generously to a needy student fund, which is administered by the students’ financial aid office. You find details of this on the investor website, but I urge all of you to go there. It doesn’t take that much to see a student from the University of Ghana through a year. I urge all of you to also go back to your network and urge your friends, your colleagues, your organizations to give generously so that as you students can stay in school and complete their program.”
