PHOTO: UL faculty members at the meeting on the Capitol Hill campus
The University of Liberia Faculty Association (ULFA) has unanimously voted to back the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) their President signed last week with the Liberian government and the UL administration.
At an Emergency General Assembly on Wednesday, October 6, 2021, the ULFA members unanimously voted to return to class this Friday, October 8, 2021, ending two weeks of “disengagement” at the state-owned University, a press release says.
Chaired by ULFA’s President Dr. Edna Johnny, the meeting was held on the UL Capitol Hill campus and it followed last Friday’s signing of the MoU, which addressed ULFA’s demand for solutions to a wide range of issues.
Prior to their unanimous vote during Wednesday’s emergency general assembly, the ULFA President, Dr. Johnny appealed to her colleagues to return to classes this Friday, because she and her team of leaders had acted on behalf of ULFA to sign the MoU.
Dr. Edna Johnny
The ULFA President said that the agreement was signed after going through extensive negotiations with UL Administration and the Government of Liberia and saw firm commitments that everything in the MoU would be implemented based on agreed timelines.
Dr. Johnny added that having raised the profile of issues at the university, the Visitor of the University and President of the Republic of Liberia, H.E. Dr. George Manneh Weah, is involved and ULFA is “holding him accountable [for] the success of this MoU through the Ministry of Finance.”
“Yes, because they have affixed their signatures on it on his behalf and he was there to intervene. Because you know he’s the Visitor, he said through the Minister of Finance that everything that is done here is based on my directive … so we take his word for it, but we are holding him accountable for everything that is in this MoU,” Dr. Johnny noted.