A three-man delegation from the Tuskegee University in Alabama, USA, has paid a courtesy call on the Vice Chancellor Prof. K. K. Adarkwa. The visit was to familiarize themselves with the University’s approach to teaching, research and learning and exploit possibilities of collaboration with the Veterinary Medicine School in the College of Health Sciences, KNUST.  The areas of collaboration would among others include students’ exchange programmes, joint research and staff exchange programmes.

The delegation was made up of Prof. Fredrick E. Tipett, Prof. David McKenzie, Prof. Nanabanyin Ghartey-Tagoe, all from the School of Veterinary Medicine of Tuskegee University.

In an address, Prof. Adarkwa was delighted for their coming. He succinctly gave them a background to the establishment of the School of Veterinary Medicine in the University. He said, “with the expansion of livestock farming in the country as well as increasing demand on Veterinary Medical professions to provide healthcare for the livestock , hence as the University pioneering Science & Technology education in the country and the continent at large, it was necessary to train the human resource needed in that sector to fill the vacuum”. 

He added that, their visit was not by accident and that; it would inure to the benefit of both institutions. Again, he said that the collaboration would strongly encourage all students who are interested in the Veterinary Medicine career and provide excellent opportunity for them to learn.