The Directorate of Strategic Contacts, Ethics and Publications, Office of the Vice-Chancellor (STRACEP) is saddled with the responsibility of educating, training and sensitizing students, staff and even the general public about the ethical conduct and moral behaviour expected of them through training, orientation and facilitation anchored around the core values of the University’s Founding Fathers to achieve the noble motto of the University f Nigeria: to restore the dignity of man.
The goal of every university is to develop, train and produce high net-worth and value-based human capital that will drive national growth and achieve the objectives of sustainable development in every country and help to transform the world into a better place as global citizens in character, attitudes and mindsets. Our ethics creates global leaders and citizens who create a better world and better nations. It is an opportunity to build an ethical laboratory in the different areas of the University for all stakeholders, standing on the moral powers of moral and academic excellence, to learn to do the right thing, the right way, at the right time and with the right people. The stakeholders must learn and re-learn human values and practice fairness to all in the system. People must be given the opportunity to be heard, to be seen, to participate, to enjoy peace, to respect and be respected, to enjoy the reward of their handwork and intelligence, and to practice non-violence in their thoughts, speeches and actions towards others in the context of the cultural and racial diversity of the humanity community within the University.To achieve the Founding Fathers core values we focus our strategic programs on these areas:-
• Assist the University Administration and community to design and implement faithfully an ethical policy that will become the stream that follows into the University code of ethics and conduct in benchmarking professional behavior within and outside the University.
The Directorate of Strategic Contacts, Ethics and Publications University of Nigeria is an autonomous Unit within the Office of the Vice Chancellor. It was established under the Administration of Prof. Benjamin Chukwuma Ozumba(2014-2019),the 14th Vice Chancellor, to underscore and achieve the goals and objectives of our Founding Fathers core values.The Directorate of Strategic Contacts, Ethics and Publications was the first full-fledged autonomous Directorate in the University saddled with the responsibility of educating, training and sensitizing students, staff and the general public about the fundamental values, ethics in higher education and attitudinal norms that lead them to exhibit the exemplary ethical conduct and right character expected of them in their day-to-day rlationships and encounters in the university community. Founding Fathers, represented by the iconic Great Zik of Africa, the Right Honourable Dr. Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe, who blessed and bestowed upon us the banner and heritage of an ethical university from the start, gave us the motto of the university which is to “restore the dignity of man”. And these founding fathers’ core values go to prove and demonstrate that the human restoration vision is a fundamental ethical mandate meant to transform the environment of our University into an ethical space where every stakeholder will “ for the right reason of truth, do the right thing, at the right time, in a right way, with the right people, in their areas of purpose and functionality, to help achieve the strategic goals and objectives of University education for a better world”. We make sure that members of the university community are imbued ethically and morally with the right skills, through training,with the right mindset and attitudes to see, respect and treat every member of the the university community as brothers and sisters under one God and the same human race.
To become the best ethical driver of University and public/private sector ethical transformation as a Department.
As a transformation hub for ethical leadership training within the University of Nigeria, working through her Funding Fathers’ core values to sustain its integrity and continually grow globally competitive in the delivery of quality education for the production of global citizens and ebullient reputational Managers of our University integrity in public/private service.
To be creative, innovative, transparent, respectful, bold, fair, just, participatory and gender sensitive in the promotion, protection, sustenance of the core values of the Founding Fathers of the University of Nigeria in guiding the Council, Management, staff, students and other stakeholders in designing ethical, management, financial, academic, non-academic, student, environmental, administrative, curriculum polices/programs of the University and to be faithful in their implementation in an ethical manner to guard, promote and protect the reputation and integrity of the University as the Den of every Lion and Lioness so as to restore human dignity.