It is announced for the information of the University community and the general public that at its Special Meeting held on 17th June, 2020, the University of Cape Coast Council took the following decisions:
Council appointed Professor Johnson Nyarko Boampong, currently the Provost of the College of Health and Allied Sciences as the new Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast for an initial 4-year term of office with effect from 1st August, 2020.
The University of Cape Coast has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and Affiliation Agreement with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-College of Science and Technology (CSIR-CST) to seal the relationship between the two institutions.
The Office of the Dean of Students, in conjunction with the Directorate of University Health Services, has organised an orientation on COVID-19 protocols for final year students who have returned to campus to complete their studies.
The programme formed part of measures the University had instituted to prevent the spread of the virus following the directive of President, His Excellency, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for universities, and other educational institutions to re-open for final year students.
UCC lecturers have been urged to support Management to implement the COVID-19 measures and protocols when the University re-opens for final-year students.
The Head of UCC COVID-19 Rapid Response Taskforce, Dr. James Prah, made the call when he gave a presentation on the theme “Return of Students to Campus in the Face of COVID-19: What Lecturers Should Know” at A Virtual Seminar organised by the University Teachers Association (UTAG), UCC branch.
Waste management company, Zoomlion Ghana Limited, has embarked on disinfection and fumigation exercise on campus as part of arrangements to re-open the University for final year students.
The team fumigated and disinfected all the halls of residence, lecture theatres, and other academic areas of the University.
The University Health Service has received personal protection equipment (PPE) from the Hunan City University, China, to help protect personnel working in the facility.
The items include 20 boxes of face masks and 10 protective clothing.
The School of Business has held its maiden e-seminar on the theme “Coronavirus Pandemic, and Household Financial Anxiety and Wellbeing”.
The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Alumni in the Central and Western Regions has presented 750 pieces of face masks to members of the Teachers and Education Workers' Union (TEWU) of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) at a short ceremony on campus.
The Association also distributed 250 masks to taxi drivers, passengers, and food vendors at the taxi ranks at both the South and North campuses of the University.
The University Health Service has received a donation of Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) and sanitary items from the Cape Coast Area of the Church of Pentecost at a short ceremony held at the forecourt of the Central Regional Health Directorate.
The items included Veronica buckets, gloves, face masks, protective boots, gallons of sanitizer, and detergent.
The UCC 1998 Alumni Year Group has donated sanitary items and medical equipment valued at GH ¢75, 000 to the University Health Services as part of efforts to fight COVID-19.
The items included gallons of detergents, hand sanitizers, and seven nebulizers.
