7TH OCTOBER, 2021.
Key Highlights of the Vice Chancellor’s speech
Karatina University (KarU) Vice Chancellor, Prof. Mucai Muchiri attended the International Conference on Entrepreneurial Universities in Africa held at the Mount Kenya University and jointly organized by Developing Entrepreneurial Universities in Kenya (DEpUK) and Collaboration of Entrepreneurial Universities (CEPU) projects. He was accompanied by the Deputy Vice Chancellor (ARSA), Prof. Peninah Aloo-Obudho. Karatina University DEpUK members were also part of the entourage.
In his introductory remarks, the Vice chancellor briefly introduced Karatina University to the participants of the conference, where he mentioned its strategic location; proximity to Mount Kenya, year of establishment, courses offered and the infrastructure development currently ongoing, e.g, the 3,000-capacity modern library. In addition, the University prides itself of being a green University and through the DEpUK project, the university is slowly adopting the entrepreneurial university culture which has already been captured in the KarU tag: “The green entrepreneurial university.”
The Vice Chancellor highlighted the milestones of the project since inception of the DEpUK project in the year 2018, which are through:
In conclusion the Vice Chancellor stated that entrepreneurial Universities have a strong bottom-up development initiative focus, empowering individuals at all levels of the organization to enjoy freedom for action. He thanked DAAD and Saarland University for the support they have provided for the success of the DEpUK project. It is through their entrepreneurial leadership and guidance that has made the three Kenyan universities in the DEpUK project start the journey to being entrepreneurial universities in this part of Africa