There are the Faculties of Sciences, Health Sciences, Arts, and a Higher Institute of Commerce and Management.
Nineteen days after the commissioning of the pioneer officials of the recently created University of Bamenda, Bambili in the North West Region, the institution’s Senate held its first meeting in Bambili on Tuesday October 18, 2011 with the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Tafah Edocat Edward chairing. He later told Cameroon Tribune that the Senate recommended the creation of the Faculties of Sciences, Health Sciences, Arts, and a Higher Institute of Commerce and Management. Members also examined the annual reports of the two colleges of the university (ENS and HTTTC) and made plans for the academic future of the university.
The Senate also recommended the transfer of the Department of Economics from the Higher Technical Teachers Training College, (HTTTC) to the Higher Teachers Training College, (ENS) and the creation of part-time courses to prepare students for Higher National Diploma, HND and BTS studies in the university. It was also an occasion for pioneer Senate members to commune with and congratulate the interim Directors of ENS and HTTTC, Prof. Matthew Gwanfogbe and Dr Lukong Kenneth Mengjo respectively; thus setting the pace for the effective take off of the university.
It was on the strength of a Presidential Decree of September 30, 2011 that the first officials of the University of Bamenda were appointed with Prof. Dominique Mvogo as Pro. Chancellor and Prof. Tafah Edocat Edward as Vice Chancellor. They were commissioned on October 3, 2011 by the Chancellor of Academic Orders and Minister of Higher Education, Prof. Jacques Fame Ndongo who recommended equity and a participatory approach to building the new institution which he described as “the nation’s university of the future.” The University of Bamenda was created during President Biya’s visit to Bamenda in December, 2010 to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the nation’s armed forces.
