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University of Liberia Faculty and Staff Association
(ULFASA)
UNIVERSITY OF LIBERIA

Contact: 0778-636291/0776-553072/077 054 4999/077 749 1640
Email: [email protected] or [email protected]

September 9, 2026

PRESS STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE!

The leadership of the University of Liberia Faculty and Staff Association (ULFASA) is alarmed over the withdrawal of the Ministry of Public Works from the pending renovation works at the University of Liberia.

As you all may recall, the inclusion of the Ministry of Public Works (MoPW) to lead the renovation efforts was made clear in an August 5, 2026 directive issued by a Press Statement under the office of the President of the Republic of Liberia H.E. Amb. Joseph Nyumah Boakai.

However, the University of Liberia’s Administration has consistently rebuffed the role of the MoPW against the mandate of the of the President. Furthermore, the President of the University of Liberia has rejected adherence to the Presidential mandate in favor of awarding over four million United States Dollars ($4 Million) to a single company to carryout renovations works against the advice of the Ministry of Public Works.

At the same time, The University of Liberia Administration is finalizing a secret deal to award all works contract to this same company up to December 31, 2030. While the renovation of the campus is paramount, the quality of works is not guaranteed as the quality assurer, the MoPW, has been relieved of its fiduciary responsibility in total disregard to the Presidential Mandate.

The leadership of ULFASA sounds early warning to the President of the Republic of Liberia through the Board of Trustees to ensure the immediate adhererence to the August 5, 2026 Presidential Mandate by the University of Liberia Administration to protect resources allotted to the University of Liberia and to ensure value for work.

As of the time of this release, the impasse between the UL Administration and the MoPW has produced no clear roadmap on the duration, phases and target areas of the renovation process.

ULFASA will submit a request to all stakeholders for urgent intervention.

In the same vane, ULFASA rejects comments by Dr. Layli Maparyan attributing the stalemate of progress to its actions.

The leadership of ULFASA informs all faculty and staff that a matrix and proposed timelines for the longstanding resolution of our concerns were submitted to the Chairman and members of the Board of Trustees since August 22, 2026. The same was presented to Dr. Maparyan. However, there has been no discussion held on issues contained therein.

ULFASA members are urged to remain focused and listen to the leadership for information and directions.

END!

Signed:

Eric T. S. Patten
Secretary General-ULFA

E. Martin Weah, II
Secretary General-ULSA

09/09/2026

A concerned student of the University of Liberia writes:

STUDENTS CANNOT BE THE COLLATERAL DAMAGE: UL'S SYSTEMIC CRISIS REQUIRES A SYSTEMIC SOLUTION!

An Open Appeal to ULFA, the UL Administration, the Board of Trustees and the Government of Liberia

By: Moses D. Alexander
Senior Student
University of Liberia - UL
Accounting/Public Administration

Greetings, distinguished officials. For far too long, we, the students of UL, have faced the challenges of the systemic breakdown at UL and yet there hasn't been substantial improvement since something that didn't start now or will be dealt with even sooner. Sadly, these challenges greatly affect the students, the sole reason for the establishment of the University of Liberia. It's sad to say that the ongoing crisis at the University of Liberia has gone beyond a disagreement between faculty and administration, but again, we, the students, can't take the BLAME. NO!

Instead of the administration and faculty resolving their problems, it is now a crisis affecting thousands of students whose academic future is hanging in the balance, and some potentially ending right now out of frustration and wastage of time.

To be honest, the concerns raised by the University of Liberia Faculty Association (ULFA) are important and deserve serious attention.

Lecturers deserve decent salaries.
Workers deserve their benefits.
Employees deserve due process.
The university deserves adequate funding. This isn't something to DENY!

On the other hand, our campuses deserve renovation and the institution needs stronger accountability and governance. UNDENIABLE AS WELL!

But there is another group whose concerns must not be forgotten:
THE STUDENTS! WE, the students, did not create the university's financial challenges; we did not create salary disparities; we did not fail to provide social security benefits; we did not design the university's infrastructure; we did not appoint administrators; and we did not create the systems that have allowed these challenges to accumulate over the years.

Yet we, the students, are the ones losing semesters, delaying graduation and watching their academic dreams remain on hold. This is UNACCEPTABLE! 💔🥲

And that raises a difficult question:
WHO IS PAYING THE HIGHEST PRICE FOR THIS CRISIS? 🥲

Since the problems at UL are systemic, then the solution must also be systemic.
Come to think of it: the University of Liberia cannot rebuild itself simply by removing individuals from positions.

Even if one administrator resigns today and another takes over tomorrow, the institution will still have to confront its deeper problems: financing, infrastructure, governance, human-resource management, accountability, academic planning and institutional sustainability–something that has been a routine over decades now. So pathetic! 🥲

Changing people without changing systems only changes the faces of the problem, and this is what ULFA wants? I don't think so. 🤔
The challenges UL face now are systemic, why must academic activities remain suspended until every disagreement is resolved? Does this even have any LOGIC in it? 🤔

Let's be honest with ourselves:
negotiations can continue while classes resume, campus renovations can proceed while academic activities continue in phases, salary and benefits issues be negotiated while students return to their classrooms, and administrative investigations can continue without sacrificing an entire academic year. This is POSSIBLE, ULFA. Please allow it to be as it should. Please resume your duties and welcome us back to our classes while the systemic collapse is being handled as it should.

✅Ay ULFA! We are begging you. We know that: your concerns matter; your welfare matters; your benefits matter; and your working conditions matter, but please remember that we, the students, are not your opponents. 🙏

Ironically, many of the students sitting at home today are the very people who will eventually benefit from the improved university you are fighting for. Why don't you allow them in school while you continue the advocacy? 🤔

Please! Do not allow students to become collateral damage in an institutional battle they did not create.
A victory for faculty should not become a loss for students. 💔🙏

✅To Dr. Layli Maparyan, UL President and your ADMINISTRATION:
We, the students, need more than reopening announcements.

We need functioning classrooms, laboratories, libraries, online platforms, qualified instructors, predictable academic calendars and an institution capable of managing disagreements without repeatedly bringing academic activities to a standstill.

We know that you're trying, but please DOUBLE UP! This isn't a matter to JOKE with. Some of us have been in UL since 2021 and others since 2019 for this one Bsc benay! 🥲🥲 Please try to LET US GO. You can't be our PHARAOH. 🙏

Please accept the responsibility to fix the system that has contributed to the present crisis. We know that you have the competence to achieve this. PLEASE do your very, and efficient best, Our Yellow Machine. 🙏

✅TO PRESIDENT JOSEPH BOAKAI AND THE GOVERNMENT OF LIBERIA:
The University of Liberia is a national institution, and its problems require more than temporary interventions.

Liberia needs a long-term national strategy for UL—one that addresses infrastructure, faculty welfare, financing, governance, technology, academic quality and student welfare.

Our national university should not have to wait for another crisis before serious attention is given to its problems. Remember, the workforce that must lead Liberia is prepared at UL as well as other universities in the country but being the nation's premier state-owned highest learning institution, we are kindly asking your leadership to quickly address this "systemic collapse" at UL once and for all. We, the students, trust your ability to achieve such a milestone. Please, don't let us down! 🙏

✅To the Ministry of Education - Liberia and Dr. Jarso Maley Jallah:
The University of Liberia operates under your authority as the highest education body in the country. Abandoning the issues faced by UL isn't fair. We need your intervention into this "systemic collapse" at UL. Your authority to regulate, and formate policies that will greatly improve the quality of education at UL is needed. Please, don't sit idly on this issue. PLEASE, come to our aid.

✅ FINALLY, TO MY FELLOW STUDENTS:
Sitting home and complaining won't solve any problem. Therefore, we must find our voice respectfully to ask:
✓When will we return to class?
✓When will our academic calendar resume?
✓How will the lost time be recovered?
✓ What protection do students have against indefinite academic disruption?

We must support our lecturers when they have legitimate concerns, but we must also advocate for ourselves because our education is not a bargaining chip. NO!

THIS IS NOT ULFA VS. STUDENTS.
This should not be faculty versus administration. It should be everyone versus the institutional problems that have held the University of Liberia back for too long.

UNDENIABLY, WE currently need a dialogue, a compromise, accountability and reform but most importantly:

WE NEED OUR UNIVERSITY BACK.

Let ULFA continue to fight for the rights of faculty; let the administration continue to address the institutional challenges; let the government provide the necessary support, but let the STUDENTS return to the classrooms while these processes continue.

The University of Liberia needs more than reopening. It needs reconstruction—academically, financially, administratively and institutionally.

But that reconstruction must not be carried out at the expense of the very students the institution was established to serve.

We, the students cannot be the COLLATERAL DAMAGE. 💔🥲🙏

UL's systemic crisis requires a systemic solution!

07/09/2026

THE LIBERIAN INVESTIGATOR

HomeCommentary
A Year of Musings, and the Stories UL’s Critics Aren’t Telling
by Layli Maparyan, Ph.D., Reading Time: 5 mins read
Published: September 7, 2026

It was one year ago this week that I first started this column, Monday Morning Musings of the UL President. My first column was “Back to School,” and it began like this:

Worldwide, the first day of school is one of the most important and highly anticipated days of the year – regardless of what day it falls on. It is the day of hopes and dreams for students, families, communities, and nations. It is the day when the next generation – be they children, youth, or adults – begins or renews the process of realizing their potential and fulfilling their aspirations. It is the bedrock of an ever-advancing civilization and the foundation upon which progress is made by humanity.

Layli Maparyan, Ph.D., President, University of Liberia

My purpose was to establish a positive narrative about the University of Liberia, with gentle but encouraging reflections on issues affecting us. It was against the backdrop of protests and negativity in social media and concerns that the discourse was dangerously one-sided. I wanted the world to see something positive coming out of UL, because there are (and continue to be) so many positive things that don’t receive enough attention. I likewise wanted to explain my leadership philosophy so that people could get to know me as UL President, given people’s concerns about my status as someone who “isn’t from here.” On this basis, I published 32 columns; this one is the 33rd.

This year, we find ourselves in a similar situation as before. The first day of school has come and gone without school actually starting at UL. Faculty and staff are on strike, students have protested (thankfully, to return to the classroom), and our classrooms are clamoring for attention. Social media has once again waxed toxic – even more so than before – and we are wringing our hands about what to do.

Yet (!), it is important to point out some momentous developments that have occurred since this time last year. For starters, we have $6.3 million dollars of infrastructure funding this year that we didn’t have last year. The Government of Liberia heard our cry and answered materially. At present, infrastructure renovation, modernization, and beautification has commenced, in addition to many quick impact projects that are underway. You wouldn’t know it from the social media chatter that speculates about where all the money is and what is being done with it—but I am here to tell you that it is being fully utilized for renovation, modernization, and beautification as we speak.

Secondly, UL is continuing to achieve academic accolades and financial investments worthy of a national flagship university. Just last week, I was privileged to meet with the FAO who came to announce a $45,000 grant to UL’s Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (DoFAS) because UL is launching the world’s first university curriculum on small-scale fisheries. You heard me right: The World’s First. At UL. For this project, DoFAS is collaborating with some of the top universities in the world – Duke University, Stanford University, and the University of California, Santa Cruz. UL is in good company because of hardworking faculty breaking new ground in important fields that simultaneously accelerate national development goals. Kudos to DoFAS!!

In a similar vein, a few months ago, UL received a grant of $50,000 from UN Women to fund the first nationwide landscape study of sexual- and gender-based violence (SGBV), harmful traditional practices (HTP), and violations of sexual- and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Liberia. This study is being undertaken by a collaboration involving UL’s Office of Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (OGEWE), UL’s Institute for Policy Studies and Research (LIPSR), UL’s College of Gender Studies and Interdisciplinary Research, UL’s Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida School of International Relations (IBB), and UL’s Resource Center for Disability Services and Support and Alternative Learning (RCDSSAL). Our UL team is working together with UN Women and the EU, as well as an advisory group that includes the Ministry of Gender, Children, and Social Protection, the Women and Children Protection Section of the Liberia National Police, the Human Rights Protection Unit of the Ministry of Justice, the Independent National Commission on Human Rights, the Gender and Social Inclusion Units of the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Local Government. Importantly, 60 UL students and recent UL alumni were hired to collect the data in the field – all 16 of Liberia’s counties. The results of this study will inform efforts to reduce and eradicate SGBV, HTP, and SRHR violations for years to come, contributing greatly to a better Liberia for all.

Activities such as these are what it’s all about. They define the essence of a national flagship university. There are many more good stories that I could tell, and many more I will tell in times to come.

For now, however, I want to encourage us all to pause and commit to toning down the negative talk on social media, talk radio, and even amongst ourselves. With negative words, we are tearing ourselves and each other down, and we are harming the reputation of our beloved institution, UL.

May we all reflect on these words from the Writings of the Bahá’í Faith, which have guided me since my earliest years:

“He must never seek to exalt himself above anyone, must wash away from the tablet of his heart every trace of pride and vainglory, must cling unto patience and resignation, observe silence and refrain from idle talk. For the tongue is a smoldering fire, and excess of speech a deadly poison. Material fire consumeth the body, whereas the fire of the tongue devoureth both heart and soul. The force of the former lasteth but for a time, whilst the effects of the latter endure a century.… That seeker should, also, regard backbiting as grievous error, and keep himself aloof from its dominion, inasmuch as backbiting quencheth the light of the heart, and extinguisheth the life of the soul.” (from the Bahá’í Writings)

UL is a noble institution. Let us, one and all, commit to upholding its nobility in all we say and do.

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1 Transcript with 10th, 11th,12th grades
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5 National Identification Card, or Passport, or Birth Certificate/Declaration of Nationality
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1 Submit an application letter for readmission addressed to the below address indicating the reason(s) you dropped from school. The letter must be sent via email to
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Office of Enrollment Services (OES)
University of Liberia - Fendall Campus
Louisiana, Fendall, Liberia
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1 Transcript
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8 Nonrefundable admission fee of US$65.00 for Liberian Students and US$100.00 for international students. Ask for UL Bank Account Number at UBA, Eco Bank or GT Bank Fill out the deposit and make payment. Go back to the BFO and Audit department for authentication.

Graduate and Professional Schools Transfer Requirements

1 National Identification card, or Passport, or Birth Certificate/Declaration of Nationality.
2 Nonrefundable admission fee of US$75.00 for Liberian Students and US$100.00 for international students. Ask for UL Bank Account Number at UBA, Eco Bank or GT Bank Fill out the deposit and make payment. Go back to the BFO and Audit department for authentication.
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5 Heath Certificate from a recognized hospital and not a clinic.

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1 Submit an application letter for readmission addressed to the below address indicating the reason(s) you dropped from school. The letter must be sent via email to
[email protected]
with Subject,
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and with attention to the below address.
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