Monrovia – Williamina Gbardee Elious Budy, the president of the Law Students Association (LAWSA) of the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law at the University of Liberia has disclosed that her administration has set high goals in fulfillment of its promise to the students’ public at Liberia only law school.
Madam Budy, the wife of the Commissioner General of the Liberia Immigration Service Robert W. Budy is a senior student of the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law at the University of Liberia.
The president of the Law Students Association at the University of Liberia is also the first female elected president in recent years.
Speaking at her induction ceremony, Madam Budy told the gathering of academicians that her administration will ‘take the bull by it horns’ to speedily address issues that are confronting the students’ public.
“As we inherit this duty by the oath administered to us today, my vice president and I have set high goals in fulfillment of our platform, which intend to tackle the issues of academic excellence and improve the learning environment of the law school,” Madam Budy assured.
Also, the newly inducted president said her leadership will support tutorial classes adding that, when students study together, they will learn together, work together and achieve more together.
“We also intend to create an E-library and expand the internet bandwidth to increase speed and wider access for our students; because we know the strength of our academic work will primarily rest on the strength of our research as students of the law,” she added.
Madam Budy continues: “We have started concrete steps by identifying appropriate sustainable means of keeping the library open, up to closure of the last class on campus instead of closing at 3:55PM when classes are running up to 7pm.”
Her administration, she says intends to address the refurbishment of the classes, replace old arm chairs with new modern chairs and setting up of sanitary conditions befitting its recognition as the nation’s only law school in the country which in her words is equal to –or if not more than other law schools in the sub-region.
She furthers: “Fully being aware of the economic recession, we intend to provide financial aid for deserving students and provision of scholarship that incites academic competition as well. We have not come to fear the future, but face it since we know that change does not come easily, but always possible.”
