The Center for Gender Research, Advocacy and Documentation (CEGRAD), has organized a workshop for female administrators, both senior members and senior staff members, to build their capacities on gender issues.

It was also aimed at fulfilling the mission of CEGRAD in educating and training the University community to understand gender and sexual harassment issues.

The Director of the Directorate of Research,Innovation and Consultancy (DRIC), Prof. Samuel Anim, has urged female administrators to protect the image of the University of Cape Coast (UCC).

To this end, Prof. Anim charged them to inculcate the sense of professionalism in all their endeavours at the workplace.

A Professor from the Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, USA, has delivered a public lecture on the the topic “Caribbean Masculinity and Enslavement”. The Centre for International Education (CIE) in collaboration with the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Social Science organized the lecture. The lecture was to explain the issue of the construction and performance of masculinity in the context of slavery.

The Provost of the College of Health and Allied Sciences, Prof. Harold Amonoo- Kuofi, has re-echoed the importance of research in the forward march of any institution.

To this end, Prof. Amonoo- Kuofi has appealed to students and health professionals to show keen interest in research so as to enrich their knowledge and provide better services to their clients.

Prof. Amonoo said this at the 6th International Conference on Surgery organised by the Department of Surgery under the College of Health and Allied Sciences for medical professionals and students.

A lecturer at the Kennesaw State University, USA, Prof. Samuel Baidoo, has donated assorted books to the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. He appealed to the students at the Department to make judicious use of the books. Prof. Baidoo said the gesture was his personal social responsibility to facilitate teaching and learning at the Department. The Head of Department, Dr. Brempong Osei-Tutu, who received the donation, thanked Prof. Abaidoo for the kind gesture. Dr. Osei-Tutu said that the books would significantly help improve teaching and learning at the Department.

 The Managing Director of the Sasakawa Africa Fund for Extension Education (SAFE), Dr. Deola Naibakelo, has called on Prof. Joseph Ghartey Ampiah to congratulate him on his appointment as Vice-Chancellor.

Dr. Naibakelao, who is currently based in Addis Abba, Ethiopia, was on a routine visit to the Sasakawa Centre to assess their progress of work.

A delegation from the University of Electronic Science and Technology (UESTC), China, led by Prof. Zhao Shurong, has called on the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Joseph Ghartey Ampiah, at the University.

The Chinese University,which has an existing collaboration with the University of Cape Coast (UCC), is looking at the possibility of establishing a Centre of Excellence for West Africa in Ghana. Currently, two masters and one Ph.D student from UCC are studying in China with sponsorship from the UESTC. Efforts are now being made to expand the collaboration to include other areas.

The Sam Jonah Library (formerly called Main Library) has organised a Spelling Bee Competition for basic schools in some communities surrounding the University. The competition was aimed at encouraging school children to cultivate the habit of reading and building upon their vocabulary.The participating schools were the Imam Khomeni Basic School, Archbishop Amissah Catholic School, Towohofo Basic School, Kwaprow M.A Basic School, Amamoma Presbyterian Model School and St. Anthony Anglican School.

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