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The
University of Calabar was established on 1st October, 1975. It grew
out of the Calabar Campus of the University of Nigeria, which began functioning
during the 1973/74 academic, administrative and technical staff. The University
of Calabar was one of the seven new University Institutions set up From
its inception in 1975, the University of Calabar has been guided by certain
fundamental considerations in its academic and other activities. Established at
the peak of the national outcry against corruption, nepotism, indiscipline and
indolence, the University sought a citizenry imbued with high sense of duty and
conscious of its responsibilities to the Nigerian nation. Thus, character
receives as much emphasis in our training as academics. The University is
perhaps the first in the country to established an annual Pro-Chancellor’s
Prize for the best behaved student of the graduating class.
Besides, as a Federal Institution, the University seeks to establish on
the campus an atmosphere where Nigerians from all States and linguistic groups
in the country can cultivate healthy social inter-group relations. Indeed, all
States of the Federation are represented in the student population of the
institution. The University has also consciously sought to learn from the
mistakes of older Nigerian Universities by adopting a rather flexible and
forward looking attitude with regard to academic programming. Thus,
from its inception, the University adopted the Four-Year integrated degree
prrogramme based on the semester system and the course system in it is
Faculties, something that some of the older Universities are just beginning to
do. The University also makes conscious use of local materials for instructional
purpose in the sincere effort to make her programmes relevant to the needs of
Nigeria. Though not responsible to the State in which it is located, the
University is responsive to the genuine aspirations and interests of her
immediate community and interacts freely with that community through her
programmes in Adult and Continuing Education, Comprehensive Health Scheme, as
well as Symposia, Seminars and Workshops organized not infrequently on and off
campus. Founded at the peak of the cultural renaissance in the country and
situated in an area of the country distinguished for her rich culture, the
University prides itself as a significant academic custodian of the rich culture
of the people through the performance of our Department of Theatre Arts, which,
within the short period of its existence has established an enviable
record for
itself in Nigeria and abroad.The physical development of the University has had
to focus initially on the expansion
of the facilities at the existing campus site in order to meet
academic
requirements. Several interim buildings had to be constructed at the same time
as the work on the Main Campus
was progressing. At present, several definitive
halls of residence, a student centre, senior staff quarters and an elementary
school have been completed on the west bank campus. A vigorous programme of
academic buildings on the
Main Campus is now being pursued. Already the Teaching
Hospital, Medical School, the definitive Library and Faculties of Arts and
Natural Sciences are in progress.
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