By News Writing & Reporting (MAC 201) Group Six
The Dean, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, University of Jos, Professor Augustine Eziashi has called on the government and management to ensure even distribution of infrastructure in educational institutions.
This he said is to avoid making people feel that some faculties and departments get preferential treatment in the distribution of infrastructure.
In an interview with Unijos Echo Online, Eziashi, a two-term dean, lamented that preference is given to some faculties and departments over others in terms of distributing infrastructure.
Professor Eziashi highlighted the problems of the faculty to include scarcity of space for offices and lecture rooms, studios, laboratories, among others. He added that the faculty needs a boardroom for holding of faculty conferences, symposia, meetings, and other extra-curricular activities.
He also called for the provision of adequate academic staff to cater for the increasing academic workload of the faculty.
He sued for unity and cooperation among undergraduates of the faculty saying students should see themselves and the various departments as cooperating units rather than as diverging units.
To this end, he asked for the re-introduction of faculty courses to be offered by all students in the faculty to promote a feeling of ‘togetherness’.
Professor Eziashi admonished students to face their studies as that is their primary purpose in school and work hard to emerge the best in the university.
The faculty of environmental sciences in University of Jos started about 30 years ago with three functional departments – Architecture, Building and Geo-planning. Around last year, the departments increased to seven with the creation of the departments of Fine and Applied Arts, Urban and Regional Planning, Estate Management and Quantity Surveying.
