BWI Alumni Disappointed
--Over Delay To Elevate BWI
BWI Alumni Disappointed
--Over Delay To Elevate BWI
The Booker Washington Institute Alumni Association (BWIAA)
says it is disappointed that the move started this year to elevate the
status of the institute to a college has failed to make progress.
According to a release, the association is seeking the intervention of
the institute’s board of governors headed by President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
to break the impasse.
BWIAA, in the release, expressed outrage that since it was
re-constituted months ago, the board itself has shown no indication of
its readiness to get down to business.
The release said a high level delegation from the association met with
BWI Principal Mulbah Jackollie during which he expressed his frustration
in the institute elevation process.
The release quotes Jackollie as telling the delegation that the draft
bill for BWI’s elevation has since been given to the Ministry of
Education, but is yet to be submitted to the National Legislature for
deliberation.
BWIAA says it views the delay as troubling, unacceptable and
counter-productive to Liberia’s quest for manpower training after years
of civil war.
“As the association seeks President Sirleaf’s intervention, it pledged
to remain supportive and resolute in its campaign to see BWI elevated,
something the body says the institute convincing deserves,” the release
said.
BWIAA called on people who have the passion for higher and quality
education in Liberia to join the campaign to upgrade the standard of the
technical institution.
