Education

UNIPORT gets 65 new professors

The management of the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) in Rivers State has promoted 42 senior academics to the rank of professors and 23 others to associate professors.

The UNIPORT spokesperson, Dr Sam Kpenu, disclosed this in a statement issued on Tuesday, December 12, 2023.

Kpenu stated that the new UNIPORT professors passed through stringent selection criteria set up by the university.

He said: “The promotions followed approval by the Minister of Education on December 8.

“The academics were promoted following the recommendations of the Central A&PC Academic meeting of UNIPORT held on November 23.

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“The university hereby announces the promotion of 42 staff nominated as professors of their various disciplines and 23 others as associate professors (Readers).”

A breakdown of the promotion showed the professors’ category has 10 new professors from the Faculty of Education; Faculty of Science got 10, Faculty of Humanities has eight; College of Health Sciences, eight; Faculty of Agriculture, three; Faculty of Engineering, one; Faculty of Social Science, one, and Faculty of Management Sciences,  one new professor.

In the associate professors’ category, Faculty of Education produced seven new readers; Faculty of Humanities, five; and Faculty of Science, three.

Others are Faculty of Engineering, two; Faculty of Science, two; College of Health Sciences, two; Faculty of Agriculture, one; and Faculty of Computing, one.

The Star

Segun Ojo

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