My Dear
Colleagues:
I am excited about bringing you up to speed on
Academic City’s journey. Nested at the
intersection of two roads, Academic City’s Tower silently reaches into the
skies and its logo is proudly affixed.
Two years ago, its current spot was empty. Every single day, we see
construction coming to an end with every new milestone achieved, its prospects for
greatness glares. Academic City is
upward bound!
We have recently directed our admission offices
in both Nigeria and Ghana in order to reach out to a broad spectrum of institutions
that are producing the types of students we seek and to intimately engage our
core stakeholders: Parents, Teachers, Counsellors, and Students on our mission. Our admission officers got to an early head
start this year with over 120 visits to high schools across Ghana and
Nigeria. Our marketing team continues to
strengthen our online presence. With a
coordinated effort between our marketing team and admissions we are poised to
source great talent this year.
While we worked to source students, we are
also sourcing and developing faculty and staff.
Most of our heads of department are in place and student advisory
services are being initiated. At
Academic city College, our students are the critical part of what we do. We understand that a positive experience of current
students will encourage others to want to experience same. Our Student Services ensures that we have our
pulse on our students and are responding in the best and timely fashion to
their needs.
We are in the final stages of revamping our
curricula for reaccreditation as well as broadening our academic portfolio to
attract leading students to our programs.
Our Electrical and Electronics Program as well as the Industrial
engineering programs have been submitted for Affiliation Review.
On curricula deployment,
we have defined our approach around three core pillars: Experiential Learning,
Contextual Learning and Unified Learning. With experiential learning, we are
aligning the students at the early stages of their academic experience to applied
learned concepts to projects. With our
unified learning approach, we attempt to reconfigure our students to mimic real
world approaches to problem solving where multiple teams are converged on the same
programs. Solving grass-root problems in the
classroom exposes students to the local context and helps them develop a sense
of empathy towards continental as well as global challenges.
We are enjoying favorable headwinds from the local and international
communities. Our Teachers’ and Counsellors’
conference was well-attended by over hundred heads and counsellors of high
schools. We plan to do the same in
Nigeria. Our career fair was represented
by the topmost core of corporate Ghana.
We have recently reconstituted our governing council that is well-represented
by industry and academia.
I was lately invited to join a Team of Experts from the World Bank to
assess the readiness of selected institutions in East and Central Africa to
host Centers of Excellence in multiple thematic areas: health care,
agro-business, industry and energy systems.
This journey has taken me to the University of Addis Ababa School of
Health Sciences and College of Engineering, Egerton University and Moi
University in Kenya and the African Institute of Science and Technology in
Arusha, Tanzania.
The Ghana institutions of engineering (GHIE) as
part of its effort to foster engineering education in Ghana and the sub-region,
has invited us to present our model and philosophy on engineering education at
the upcoming conference of The Western African Federation of Engineering Organizations
(WAFEO) at Royal Senchi Akosombo. The
future looks for positive for Academic City College and we look forward to your
guidance, input, and support.
