University Administrator Canvases Mentorship As Key To Institutional Growth





By Esosa Omorogbe. 




The Acting Registrar, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Comrade Ambrose E. Odiase, has posited that mentoring peers and subordinates will help to improve service delivery at higher education and other institutional levels. 

Comrade Odiase stated this while delivering the maiden edition of Ambrose Alli University Registry Lecture Series, entitled, 'Mentoring: Bequeathing Administrative Legacy To Registry Staff'. According to Odiase, "There is little doubt that the standard of university administration as provided by the registry is falling. The days of University Registrars who could hold their authority, provide much-needed leadership and talk about continuity are becoming a mirage in the Nigerian University system.
"There is nothing more important than mentoring the younger ones by the older professional university administrators. This is to enable the registry to swing in and with the work ethics as provided for in the enabling Laws and Regulations. This will help to preserve the services and continuity that are much needed in the university system. This is what will aid the maintenance of impeccable administration of the system to achieve high academic and administrative standards and excellence.
 "Mentoring the registry staff who are the operators of the engine room of the university is a task which all of us at the top hierarchy of the registry must consciously carry out. We in the top echelon and as the notch pin of the university system cannot afford to fail without bequeathing a skilled and professionally savvy staff to the registry and by extension, the entire university.
 "This is what will guarantee historical and chronological documentation of events in the university. Experience and knowledge undoubtedly aid academic and administrative mentorship for the benefit of staff, students and the academia.”
According to Comrade Ambrose E. Odiase, "Experienced and competent registry staff should mentor the upcoming and younger, but impressionable ones who require the skills and competence in administering a university. This helps to leave a lasting legacy in the system. Mentoring is a way of reassuring the younger ones that they can do it by emboldening them with confidence and passion for the job. 

"This is the way to go. If we can do this, the older professionals will have that air of satisfaction that they are leaving behind a system that can regenerate itself. What is more, is to bequeath an administrative legacy to the upcoming registry staff who would be in a position to display impeccable character, responsibility, dependability, and reliability—those who can defend the work of our heroes past and stand tall in the system, with a high-performance rating and without blemish.


"As the custodians of the Rules and Regulations, they would be well equipped to guide the university management in the day-to-day running of the university. It is incumbent to state, unequivocally, that a registry that processes students from admission to graduation and processes staff from recruitment to retirement must have experienced, skilled and competent staff. It is pertinent for the older and much more experienced registry staff to, as a matter of expediency, tutor the upcoming ones on what it means to discharge the onerous job of administering the registry.
"I tell you, good university administrators are not born, they are mentored. For one to be a good professional university administrator, one must be ready to learn the ropes and be a good follower to be mentored. What the professional university administrator does to students, equally has to be done to the staff. In this regard, the main task of a professional university administrator as a mentor is to inform first-year students at the start of the academic year on how a university works, where they can find the information they need, and give them advice about studying and living in a new environment.”

While declaring the maiden edition of Ambrose Alli University Registry Lecture Series open, the University's Acting Vice Chancelor, Prof. Asomwan Sonnie Adagbonyin, said the registry plays a pivotal role in the administration of any University. 
"Our own registry in AAU is a unique one considering its level of commitment and dedication of staff members to their duties which has helped in the cultivation and maintenance of earned stability in the system. 


"The Management and the entire University community have benefitted greatly from the dedication and services of the registry staff. To this effect, we will support and be part of subsequent editions of the Registry Lecture Series. 

"I want to also use this opportunity to commend the entire staff and students of our dear University for their co-operation in the successful completion of the 2022/2023 academic session and the commencement of the 2023/2024 session”, Professor Adagbonyin said.

The event also marked the birthday celebration of the Acting Registrar, Comrade Ambrose Odiase.
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