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The Osun State University will hold its 12th and 13th convocation ceremony for the award of first degree and postgraduate between Friday, September 22, and Thursday, September 28, 2023, AMILOADED reports.
The convocation holding physically and virtually commenced on Friday with a press conference at the university main campus in Osogbo, Osun State.
Speaking at the press conference the university Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Odunayo Clement Adebooye, said a total of 4,210 degrees and Diplomas will be awarded at the event.
The degrees, according to the VC, include First Degrees, 3,959; Postgraduate Diploma, 9; Master Degrees, 229; Doctoral Degrees, 13.
Adebooye said, “The breakdown of the various degrees and diploma in terms of class of degrees is as follows:
“First-Class: 89; Second Class (Upper Division): 1,326; Second Class (Lower Division): 1,818; Third Class: 470; Pass: 5.”
The Vice-Chancellor added, “This year, we shall be combining our 12th and 13th series of the ceremony. The reason for this is our decision to stop the tradition of deferring graduation ceremonies till the following year and academic session.
“We changed this tradition because technology has made both the conduct of examination and assessment of students easier, thus leading to faster actions on computation of examination grades and computation of final results. Even with high-tech, if our staff fail to cooperate and buy into our vision, the plan will not work.
“Therefore, I commend my colleagues for believing in the Management and for working hard to make this dream a reality. ‘It often seems impossible until it is done’, said Nelson Mandela. By the grace of God, we have broken the jinx, henceforth, we shall be graduating our students every September that follows their final examinations in July of the same year.
“For this year, therefore, we are graduating our final year students for the 2021/2022 academic session that ended in July, 2021 and our final year students for 2022/2023 academic session just completed in July 2023. We have mapped out a cluster of activities for the combined ceremonies to span through 22nd to 28th September, 2023.”
See the programmes of the convocation below:
Friday, 22nd September, 2023: Opening of Convocation and Press Conference at the Council Chamber, Main Campus, Osogbo at 10:00 a.m.
• Friday, 22nd September, 2023: Induction of Education Graduates by the Teachers’ Registration Council of Nigeria, at the Multipurpose Hall of the Main Campus, Osogbo at 11:00 a.m.
• Friday, 22nd September, 2023: Special Jumat Service, at the University Mosque, Main Campus, Osogbo at 1:00 p.m.
• Friday, 22nd September, 2023: Convocation Play titled: Esu and the Vagabond Minstrels, authored by Femi Osofisan, at the Olagunsoye Oyinlola Auditorium, Main Campus, Osogbo at 3:00 p.m.
• Saturday, 23rd September, 2023: Vice-Chancellor features live on “Rave Gang” at Rave FM, Osogbo at 8:00 a.m.
• Sunday, 24th September, 2023: Vice-Chancellor features live on “Eroya” at OSBC, Ile Awiye, Oke Baale, Osogbo at 6:30 a.m.
• Sunday, 24th September, 2023: Special Thanksgiving Service at the Olagunsoye Oyinlola Auditorium, Main Campus, Osogbo at 9:00 a.m.
• Monday, 2Sth September, 2023: Candido Da Rocha Annual Lecture at the Olagunsoye Oyinlola Auditorium, Main Campus, Osogbo at 10:00 a.m.
• Monday, 25th September, 2023: Induction of Engineering Graduates into NSE at the Olagunsoye Oyinlola Auditorium, Main Campus, Osogbo by 2:00 p.m. and Induction of Building Technology Graduates into NIoB at the Multipurpose Hall, Main Campus, Osogbo at 3:00 p.m.
Tuesday, 26th September, 2023: Convocation Day I – Convocation for the College of Humanities and Culture and College of Education at the Olagunsoye Oyinlola Auditorium, Main Campus, Osogbo between 10:00 a.m. – 12noon.
(Guests are expected to be seated at 9:30 a.m.).
• Tuesday, 26th September, 2023: Convocation for the College of Management and Social Sciences and College of Law at the Olagunsoye Oyinlola Auditorium, Main Campus, Osogbo between 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (Guests are expected to be seated at 12:30 p.m.).
• Wednesday, 27th September, 2023: Convocation Day II – Foundation Day Lecture titled to be delivered by a foremost agricultural scientist and former Vice- Chancellor OF the Federal Univernity of technology, Akure (FUTA), by professor Sola Akinrinade, at the olagunsoye oyinlola Auditorium, Main Campus Osogbo between 9:30 a.m. – 11:30
• Wednesday, 27th September, 2023: Convocation for the College of Agriculturo and College of Health Sciences at the Olagunsoye Oyinlola Auditorium, Main Campus, Osogbo between 12n00 – 1.00 p.m. (Giuests are expected to be seated at 11:30 a.m.).
• Wednesday, 27th September, 2023: Convocation for the College of Science, Engineering & Technology at the Olagunsoye Oyinlola Auditorium, Main Campus, Osogbo between 2:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. (Guests are expected to be seated at 1:30 p.m.).
• Wednesday, 27th September, 2023: Lunch for all First-Class Awardees tagged “Meet the Vice Chancellor” at the Multipurpose Hall, Main Campus, Osogbo between 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
• Thursday, 28th September, 2023: Convocation Day III – Convocation Lecture titled to be delivered by Professor Sola Akinrinade, our pioneer Vice-Chancellor at the Olagunsoye Oyinlola Auditorium, Main Campus, Osogbo by 10:00 a.m. (Guests are expected to be seated at 9:30 a.m.).
• Thursday, 28th September, 2023: Convocation for the Postgraduate College for the awards of higher degrees at the Olagunsoye Oyinlola Auditorium, Main Campus, Osogbo by 12noon. (Guests are expected to be seated at 11:30 a.m.).
It is interesting to note that graduands who would not be opportune to join physically can also be part of the ceremonies virtually via Zoom, with Mecting ID: 86141706565 and Passcode: 632407, or via our Youtube, @UniosunTV/Live.
I am very happy to inform our stakeholders that we are consistently poised to take the continental lead in academic excellence and global visibility for relevance and impact.
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