Over-Stayed Students Risk Rustication At UNIPORT

Under-graduate and
graduate students of the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) who have stayed longer than a reasonable time for them to graduate in the institution face possible rustication at the end of the 2013/2014 academic session.
The senate of UNIPORT in its 401st session took the decision to rusticate such students following a presentation by the Provost of the College of Graduate Studies, Professor Roseline Konya.
In her presentation, Professor Konya informed members of the senate that the college had set up an over stay committee, which set a final deadline of the end of the first semester of the 2013/2014 session for affected graduate students to complete their programmes.
In its response, the senate directed the college of graduate studies to extend the deadline to the end of the 2013/2014 academic session.
Thus, the senate explained, is intended to bring it in line with what was approved in the case of under graduate students in the same category.
Consequently, Professor Konya appealed to lecturers and supervisors to promptly graduate such category of students to save them from being caught in the web of the new deadline.
According to her, “at the expiration of the new time line stipulated by senate, all affected students would be summarily de-registered and required to pick up new admission forms to register afresh before they would be allowed to continue their programmes as bonafide students of the UNIPORT”.