18/07/2026
Update!
UL Faculty Disengages from all academic activities with immediate effect
Faculty members at the University of Liberia (UL) have unanimously decided to suspend all academic activities until concerns outlined in the 2021 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed with the Government of Liberia and the University administration are fully addressed.
The decision was reached on Friday during the faculty's end-of-semester General Assembly at the University's Fendall Campus.
Faculty members accused the UL administration, led by President Dr. Layli Maparyan, of failing to address longstanding issues affecting employees, including salary disparities, poor and unhygienic learning conditions, delayed promotions, and concerns over social security remittance, retirement policy and implementation, and general employees welfare, among others.
The faculty vowed not to return to classrooms or participate in any academic activities until their demands are satisfactorily resolved.
The decision aligns with an earlier resolution by the University of Liberia Staff Association (ULSA), which gave the administration until July 31 to address staff welfare concerns.
In its resolution, ULSA accused the Maparyan administration of failing to improve the welfare of employees despite commitments made during the President's inaugural address.
The University administration has not yet responded to the faculty's latest decision.
However, President Maparyan previously appealed to employees for patience, attributing delays in implementing key promises from her inaugural agenda to bureaucratic bottlenecks within the government that have slowed access to funding allocated to the University of Liberia.