UNIJOS Vice Chancellor Reaffirmed Commitments to Creating a Campus where Individual regardless of Ability can Thrive.

Remember, at the Unijos First Disability Inclusion Lecture Series, Professor Tanko Ishaya emphasized the need to provide accessibility and recognized the importance of creating a campus where every individual regardless of ability can thrive and announced steps have being taken to address accessibility challenges across all campuses ensuring the university's facilities are welcoming to all, the vice chancellor reaffirmed this at the welcome special for special students organized by the Directorate of Students Affairs.

The Vice Chancellor thanked the Dean of Students Affairs Professor Chris Piwuna for organizing this very important event, the assure that the event which  demonstrated that university of Jos do have care for students with disabilities. He assured that the University of Jos will continue to address the issues that are more or less affecting students with disabilities from benefiting from the University of inclusive learning.

Prof. Tanko Ishaya also made it clear that last year, the management have passed information to ensure that every department begins to make preparations in anticipation of receiving any student with disability, for students with disability's program will no longer be limited to special education. And this year, we have quite a number of students with disabilities that have been admitted into the various programs of the university that is not specifically special education.

The vice chancellor also stated that for the first time the University of Jos has employed people that will assist students with disabilities such as interpreters, particularly for sign language.

The Vice assured that as a reasonable university, the university of Jos will provide most of the things that that the law experts that we provide for inclusive learning even though most of the buildings that we are met may not have been designed inclusivity, but he assured that most of the buildings that are coming up now are being designed with inclusivity in mind and there's no building that can come up now without ensuring that inclusivity.

The Vice Chancellor on behalf of the Governing Council, Management and entire university community, must sincerely welcomed the newly admitted special students into university of Jos and promised to do what we can do in the university to support support and enhance their learning.