The Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof. Sunday Elom, made this known when he received in audience members of Ebonyi State Chapter of the Association in his office.
Prof. Elom who was represented by the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Administration), Prof. Abel Ezeoha, commended the Association for its well spelt-out vision, mission as well as aims and objectives, adding that they all tilted towards producing well-balanced communicators in this era of digital technology and artificial intelligence.
Prof. Elom said that the university has reached advanced stages of preparation to unbundle the Mass Communication department in line with the directives of the National Universities Commission (NUC), adding that more human resources and infrastructure were being put in place to match the expected expansion that would be witnessed as soon as the action was carried out.
He described the move by the association to host its next workshop in
AE-FUNAI as a welcome development and assured them that the school would assist them within the limits of its resources because of the beneficial effects of the workshop.
Speaking earlier, the leader of the delegation and Deputy National President II of the Association, Prof. Ifeyinwa Nsude, said they were in the Vice Chancellor’s office to formally inform him that the Association in conjunction with the Department of Mass Communication of AE-FUNAI will host this year’s Empowerment Workshop Series.
She took time to brief the Vice Chancellor on the aims and objectives of the association, which she said was formed in 2012 with the aim of bringing all practitioners in the media industry, communication teachers in the classroom as well as students, together to ensure proper blending and enhanced productivity and improved teaching and learning.
Prof. Nsude said the Association has three distinctive programmes such as Eminent Persons Series, Empowerment Series and History Series, which are usually executed by inviting suitable personalities to give motivational talks to members and students in order to challenge them to greater heights. She said this year’s workshop, which would focus on Media, Security and Artificial Intelligence fell under the Eminent Persons Series and would be hosted in conjunction with the Department of Mass Communication of AE-FUNAI.
The Deputy National President used the occasion to solicit the assistance of the university in hosting the workshop and invited the Vice Chancellor to perform the opening ceremony.
Prof. Nsude commended the Vice Chancellor for the rapid infrastructural facilities recorded in the institution so far which she said had impacted positively on the academic programmes of the university. She said the association was in the forefront of the unbundling of Mass Communication and called on AE-FUNAI to embrace the change.
The ACSPN delegation included the Ebonyi State Coordinator of the Association, Dr. Joseph N. Chukwu who is also the Head of Department of Mass Communication, AE-FUNAI, the Secretary, Dr. Wealth Udoh of the Public Relations Unit, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, a well as staff of the Mass Communication Unit of AE-FUNAI.
Highlight of the occasion was the presentation of ACSPN books donated by the National body lead by the President, Prof Rotimi Olatunji.
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