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Ethel-Doris Nwamara Umeh is the Chairman, Board of Trustees of ASV. She is a hard-core career academic and a seasoned university administrator. She has gone through all academic and administrative rungs in the University system including being a Vice Chancellor. Professor Umeh was trained at the University of Ibadan and the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom and specialized in the “Biological Control of Insect Pests” She is Professor of Applied Entomology at Enugu State University of Science & Technology (ESUT). Professor Umeh consistently champions quality academia in ESUT and is always the first to blow the whistle and raise the red flag whenever academic standards are breeched or compromised. She took the lead in championing eradication of cultism in ESUT at a time when cultism virtually muzzled ESUT and terrorized it almost into submission. She took that bold step in order to protect the purity of academia in ESUT as well as save students from self-inflicted untimely death. As Director, Academic Planning of ESUT, she identified possible weak points in the system through which academic standard could be compromised. Working with Committees which she chaired, these weak points were eliminated thus catapulting ESUT from the 52nd position in National University Commission ranking of approved Nigerian Universities when she took office, to the 17th position at the time she left office. Her hallmark is high moral and ethical standards in academia and all spheres of life. She professes them and she lives them. She strongly believes that the purity of Academia must be preserved for the university to remain relevant in our seemingly chaotic world. She is principled; a positive disciplinarian; loves, and champions excellence; and believes in leadership by example. She shows much compassion for students and staff caught in administrative bottle necks through no fault of theirs, and she devotes time and energy clearing the bottle necks. She now devotes time mentoring students to be the best they can through discipline and hard work. Because of the excellent academia and ethical issues which she champions in the university the student body conferred her with a chieftaincy title of Ugo eji eje mba, ESUT which by interpretation is “Worthy Ambassador of ESUT to the World” Although a distinguished natural scientist, a distinguished university administrator, Professor Umeh is a hard core practicing Christian Scientist and anchors her daily life on love for God, Christ Jesus and his teachings, and love for her neighbour. She is married and blessed with four children. .

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