UNEASY CALM AT CSUC

There is an uneasy calm among students of the Christian Service University College in Kumasi as a result of moves by the authorities to force them to wear prescribed uniforms for lectures.

 While the administration is determined to fully implement the new policy latest by the start of the next academic year, the Student Representatives Council as well as most of the students who spoke to Ashanti Today have shot down the idea. 

Already, students of the Bachelor of Business Administration Department have been asked to put on light blue over black shorts or skirts for Mondays and Tuesday and also white shirt over black shorts on Wednesdays.

The Dean of Students of the school, Linda Amoako, at a recent interaction among the Senior Management staff and students, disclosed intentions of the administration to introduce school uniform for all the students but would not add any detail. 

In a follow up at an annual forum of the Department of Communication Studies, the Head of Department, Asuamah Adade-Yeboah initiated the formation of a Committee of students to recommend the preferred school uniform for students of the Department.   

Speaking in an interview with Ashanti Today, Mr. Adade-Yeboah explained that the new measure is part of plans by the university’s management to ensure decency among the students in the their dressings, particularly the women. 

According to him, even though the university has prescribed a dressing code in the Student Handbook, the directive is being flouted by some of the students at the expense of the core values of the university, which is an evangelical institution that seeks to instill in its students and staff moral and professional uprightness and integrity. 

Mr. Adade-Yeboah noted that the management has involved the SRC in the steps to introduce school uniforms and hoped that the policy would help to promote decency in the students’ dressing. 

 

Some students of the CSUC in their preferred attires

However, when contacted, the President of the SRC, Aikins Mpianin Asare, noted that the SRC is only aware of plans to enforce a dress code for the students, adding that the SRC will not agree to a school uniform policy. 

According to him, if a school uniform is introduced, the students will be seriously inconvenienced, particularly the workers, some of who already have their work place dress code. 

Beside this, Mr. Mpianin Asare noted also that the school uniform will only be a matter of colour which would not necessarily correct the provocative dressing of the female students.

 He therefore urged the university’s management to strictly enforce the existing dress code instead of compelling the students to wear school uniforms.