Founding
Introduction
The founding of Alvan Ikoku University has been at the behest and impetus of the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and has proceeded as follows:
Founding History
Section 1.1.0. Alvan Ikoku University was established:
Founding Concerns
Section 1.2.0. Alvan Ikoku University was also founded and developed in response to the concerns below:
Founding Mission
Section 1.3.0. Alvan Ikoku University’s founding mission and purposes are therefore:
Focus
Provision
Alvan Ikoku University has also been developed, and its activities and administration focused, as follows:
Activities and Administration
Section 1.5.0. All acts, activities, affairs, agents, arrangements, assets, and equivalent of Alvan Ikoku University are administered solely via the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization, as provided for in the Codes and Policies, and thus focused to ensure their alignment with and furtherance of the mission and purposes of the organization. Accordingly, Alvan Ikoku University’s administration is conducted solely via means limited by the organization’s entity status as:
Areas and Efforts
Section 1.6.0. As further described in Areas of Focus, Alvan Ikoku University administers its efforts via nine (9) areas of focus:
Faith and Spirituality
Section 1.7.0. Alvan Ikoku University’s faith-based commitments are focused as follows:
Incompatibility with Founding
Section 1.8.0. The activities, agents, and arrangements of Alvan Ikoku University are therefore focused and limited via determinations of incompatibility with the organization, as delineated below:
Inhumane Behaviors
Section 1.9.0. The aforementioned inhumane conduct include the behaviors delineated below, properly understood to not only treat a person inhumanely but to also risk rendering the treater inhumane, and so they are to be absent from any and all acts, activities, agents, arrangements, and equivalent relating to Alvan Ikoku University, and are not to be effected, facilitated or fostered in any way or via any manner, means, method, or mode, or to any degree:
Intrinsic Refusals
Section 1.10.0. In light, therefore, of the aforementioned, incompatibility with Alvan Ikoku University entails the following basic refusals, each intrinsic to the basic humanity, humanness, and humaneness of each human being, including the Founder, and to the respect such humanity requires:
Form
Provision
Alvan Ikoku University’s organizational form is as delineated below:
Formation
Section 1.12.0. Alvan Ikoku University is formally organized as a philanthropic organization entity, currently under the aegis and administration of The Alvan Ikoku Philanthropies — a division of The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC — and in partnership with The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku Foundation.
Names
Section 1.13.0. Alvan Ikoku University is also officially known under the business names, The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku University and Ikoku University. All three names, as used in official Ikoku University documents, products, services, and sites, refer to the same aforementioned organization entity.
Conclusion
— Conditions and Terms
— 1.14.1. All of the aforementioned in this section constitutes the Conditions and Terms of Founding of Alvan Ikoku University (the “Conditions and Terms of Founding” and “Conditions of Founding”) and forms an integral part of the Conditions and Terms of Alvan Ikoku University, the Codes and Policies of Alvan Ikoku University, as well as the Ikoku University Conduct and Service Agreement you may enter into with Alvan Ikoku University.
— Concerns and Questions
— 1.14.2. Please report any concerns about code or policy violations, and send any questions you may have regarding the Conditions of Founding or the Ikoku University Conduct and Service Agreement, to policies@ikokuphilanthropies.com.
— Concluding
— 1.14.3. And as a concluding aviso and proviso, you are informed as well as reminded that by commencing or continuing any conduct or service relating to Alvan Ikoku University — in any way, either directly or indirectly, and via any manner, means, method, or mode — you enter into the Ikoku University Conduct and Service Agreement and agree to abide by and be legally bound by the Policy conditions, principles, protections, and terms described above, and the Codes and Policies, in their entirety without modification or severability, as amended from time to time solely by the Founder.
Also at the University
Ikoku University is dedicated to furthering academic knowledge and inquiry via education, practice, and research — in Africa and across the globe. And so in accordance with the above, the University provides the following:
Inquiry via Education
A university that furthers academic inquiry via education — as engaged in both learning and teaching — to enhance knowledge as well as communities and societies in Africa and across the globe.
Inquiry via Practice
A university that also furthers academic inquiry via practice — as engaged in both application and revision — to contribute to and improve knowledge as well as communities and societies in Africa and across the globe.
Inquiry via Research
A university that also furthers academic inquiry via research — as engaged in both examination and investigation — to advance, broaden, and deepen knowledge as well as lives and relations in Africa and across the globe.