The University of Aden denied the validity of the news circulating that female students in university housing in Al-Shaab City in the capital, Aden, were assaulted.
The University of Aden confirmed, in an official clarification, that the university housing building for female students will be converted to the Faculty of Information, while another building will be rented for female students living in the building, due to the presence of a small group of female students in the housing.
The University of Aden clarified regarding what was recently published and circulated by some social media pioneers about female students in the university housing in Al-Shaab City being assaulted, that it is completely untrue, and that the purpose of spreading these rumors is only for one goal, which is an attempt to stir up society and opinion. General in Aden to disrupt the university's expansion projects to benefit from the female students' housing building and convert it into a college of information as an ambitious project that meets the aspirations of the college and achieves the public interest of the university.
The university indicated that the demand for female students’ housing was weak, as its large area became disproportionate to the small number of female students living in it, and due to its extreme concern for its male and female students, which falls within the framework of its moral responsibilities in addition to its academic responsibilities, coordination was made with the relevant authorities at the university to provide housing. An alternative for female students next to the College of Administrative Sciences is proportional to their number, which is much less than the capacity of the current housing, and exploiting that wide area of the building and converting it into a building for the College of Information, since since its recent establishment, it has been performing its mission and tasks as a college through what was given to it from a specific and simple part of the College of Arts building, which It led to crowding between the kidneys.
The university, through specialized committees headed by the Vice President for Student Affairs and membership of the Dean of the College of Information, the Assistant Secretary General, the Director General of Legal Affairs, and the Director General of Student Housing, has worked through the legal frameworks in order to achieve the public interest of the university to transform the female student housing into a building for the College of Information, which will contribute In improving the educational structure by providing modern and advanced facilities, supporting the development of new programs and improving current programs, and better using available spaces as educational facilities that contribute to the future development of the College of Information and in response to changes in the needs of students and the educational process through prepared classrooms and scientific laboratories that meet those needs.< /p>
The university denounces the repeated campaigns launched against it through some pioneers of social media platforms, which harm it and the repercussions of this on its academic reputation and its standing in society as a whole, calling on everyone to exercise a spirit of responsibility and stand by its side to develop its expansion projects that are in the public interest without harming its members. Faculty and staff as well as students.