AUN Matriculates New Students into Public Health, Civil Engineering, Other Programs

At a colorful Convocation and Pledge Ceremony held within the main bowl of the Lamido Musdafa Commencement Hall, newly enrolled students were led through their induction and the traditional AUN Community pledge by the President, Dr. DeWayne Frazier, who later decorated them with their class sashes.

The highlight of the ceremony was the acceptance of new students into some of the latest programs recently approved by the National Universities Commission (NUC) for the Yola-based university.

Some of the courses and concentrations include Public Health, Biomedical Science, Conservation Biology, and other related programs offered by the School of Basic Medical and Health Sciences. In the School of Engineering, Civil Engineering is offered alongside Chemical, Telecommunications, Electrical/Electronic, Computer Engineering, and Data Science and Analytics, which is offered alongside Software Engineering, Computer Science, and Information Systems is in the School of Information Technology and Computing.

Dr. Frazier, participating in his first Convocation ceremony as President since his summer appointment, urged incoming students to embrace the golden opportunity to study at the prestigious institution.

“I am a firm believer in God’s words as there are no divine accidents. That each of us have made it here to this little part of the world for this particular day together.  You could be anywhere today, but you are not, you are here on this world-class campus in the middle of Adamawa state in the great country of Nigeria.   It is not by accident that God brought each of here today, we are all here, faculty, staff and students, to do something great and to make the world a better place through education”.  

President Frazier paid special tribute to the Founder of the University and former Nigeria’s Vice President, His Excellency Atiku Abubakar, for his vision and commitment to education as a tool of human and social development.

He urged the new students to internalize the core message of the Founder's philosophy: ‘Education truly can change a person’s story; it gave me everything. Whatever happens, get an education,' a quote he noted is highly motivating.

Turning to the new students, President Frazier asked, “Are you ready to change your “story”?  “Life is like an open journal”, he told them “and you are the one to write the pages.  Each of us are not promised a tomorrow, so we need to live each day working hard and living for the moment”.  

Some parents who attended the Convocation and Pledge Ceremony expressed gratitude to the University administration for sustaining the institution's high standards over the years.

A parent and media practitioner, Mrs. Olori, expressed her delight with the university's academic policies and willingness to enforce rules and code of conduct. "I am confident in the caliber of education provided here and that my ward will be groomed to pursue higher education opportunities abroad upon graduation”.

Another parent, Mrs. Nkoyo, who enrolled a child in Data Science and Analytics, said that after her eldest child graduated with honors from AUN in 2016, it was inevitable that her junior siblings would follow in her footsteps. "Our first experience at AUN was good, which is why we returned," she said.