Effective 2023/2024 academic year, the various traditional halls in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) will be run without the Junior Common Room (JCR) system of Hall Management by students.
Instead, the existing governance structure comprising Hall Councils, Hall Masters and Senior Tutors would continue to operate in the management of the affairs of the Halls.
This was part of the council decisions arrived at after it deliberated on the disturbances arising out of the University Hall Week Celebrations.
A press release from the University Council signed by A. K. Boateng, the Registrar and Secretary to the Council, after its meeting on Friday, August 26, 2022, said “in addition, Hall Fellows will be appointed and assigned to floors or blocks of Halls to exercise direct supervision over matters affecting students”.
It further said council has resolved to dismiss any student who participates in the organisation of “morale” or processions on campus.
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The decisions are among six measures taken by the Council following the recent violent clashes between students of the University Hall and Unity Hall during a procession, which led to damage to some vehicles.
The KNUST clash ensued when students of Unity Hall refused to allow students of University Hall to use a route in front of their Hall for a procession.
“Hall weeks and SRC week celebrations had been suspended indefinitely and warned that students who indulged in any act, which would warrant dismissal, would have their names and pictures widely published in the National Dailies and on the University website,” the statement said.
Also, students caught harbouring dismissed students or alumna in their rooms in any of the Halls of Residence on Campus would be sanctioned appropriately.
At the meeting, the Council decided that students found culpable in the recent clash would be dealt with according to the rules of the University and those requiring further prosecution by the State would be handed over to the Police.
Find below the statement
SOURCE: ATLFM NEWS
