During your years of stay and study in this University, you will definitely spend more of your time within the four walls of this Faculty than you will spend in your parental homes. Thus, you will find the environment of this Faculty to be your academic home away from your parental home.
We shall do our very best to create for your comfort a conducive home environment for your stay here.
In line with the University’s developmental plans and projections, the Faculty of Humanities has great potentials for expansion and development in terms of manpower, academic programmes and physical facilities. It is projected that when the University moves to its permanent site at Owerrinta, Isiala-Ngwa South, Abia State, in the shortest possible time, the Faculty will have its own building and facilities where all its Departments and staff will be housed. That will take away from the Faculty the challenges it faces now as a result of sharing space and facilities with other Faculties and Units of the University. At that time, academic prorgammes will also expand to include other Humanisticsdisciplines, such as Philosophy, Linguistics, Music, Fine and Applied Arts, etc. Thus, our future is very bright and promising.
VISION STATEMENT
A training ground for the provision of the kind of practical knowledge needed to proffer concrete solutions to the challenges of contemporary societies.
MISSION STATEMENT
Provision of high-quality, (w)holistic education which produces graduates with good character, morality and spirituality, adequately trained and equipped for the service of God and humanity.
The overall objectives for the existence of Faculties of Humanities in the academy generally and in CLU in particular, are easily derivable from our Philosophy stated above. These may be summarized as follows:
To expose young Nigerian and non-Nigerian students to the content and essential value of Humanistic disciplines and their significance in the total package of (w)holistic liberal education.
To produce for Nigeria in particular and the world at large generations of truly, morally and (w)holistically educated graduates who are worthy both in character and learning for responsible leadership positions and roles in the society.
To prepare adequately a crop of Nigerian and foreign graduates who are well equipped to reason, decide and act rationally and logically, applying to real life situations the apparati of Philosophy and Logic whenever they find themselves in the wider world outside the four walls of the University.
To prepare adequately graduates for the contemporary world that has been pulled together by the irresistible forces of interdisciplinary and de-departmentalizing knowledge economy, so that they would not in any way find themselves to be intellectually and academically wanting in their respective post-graduation locations and vocations.
As a faith-based Institution of higher education and learning, Clifford University’s raison would be deficient and incomplete if it failed to make at least some of the beneficiaries of its education heirs of the Kingdom.
The pioneer Dean of the Faculty of Humanities is Prof. Friday M. Mbon, a Visiting Professor of Religious Studies from the University of Calabar, Calabar, Cross River State.
Having taught in several universities in the United States and Canada (in which countries he earned his undergraduate and his graduate degrees), Germany, the West Indies, Ghana, in sabbatical / visiting capacities, Prof. Mbon brings to young CLU a wealth of university teaching and administrative experience. At various times in his home University of Calabar, he had held, among others, such positions as Head of Department, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic, more than one tenure), etc. Between 2010 and 2015, Prof. Mbon was a Member of the Governing Council of Babcock University, Ilishan- Remo, Ogun State. He is currently a Member of the Governing Council of Clifford University and also a permanent Member of the University of Calabar Senate in which he chairs the Business/Minutes Vetting Committee.
Besides, Prof. Mbon serves as an External Examiner for several Nigerian universities, and has also for over two decades served as Chairman or Member on ad hoc NUC Accreditation Panels to universities throughout Nigeria.
Prof. Mbon has attended and presented scholarly papers (lead and other) at many national and international conferences/ workshops. He has to his credit numerous local and international scholarly publications.
Prof. Mbon is married to Dr. (Mrs.) Usen Mbon, a Lecturer in Educational Administration and Planning, University of Calabar. The marriage is blessed with five wonderful children.
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