Women eye Makerere top office
Aug 29, 2003
Three women are among the contenders in the hot race for the coveted job of Makerere University Vice-Chancellor.
By Gerald Businge and Anne Mugisa
Three women are among the contenders in the hot race for the coveted job of Makerere University Vice-Chancellor.
The women competing with five other academics are Associate Prof. Joy Kwesiga who heads the gender mainstreaming division, Prof. Mary Okwakol of the Zoology Department and the Vice-Chancellor of Gulu University and Prof. Kibirige Teresa Ssebunya, who works in Botswana.
The other academics hoping to occupy Makerere’s top office are Wasswa Balunywa, head of the University’s Nakawa-based Business School (MUBS), Prof. Dr. Elly Katunguka, the dean of the veterinary medicine faculty and academic staff representative to the university council. Others are Prof. Opuda-Asibo, director of the Post-Graduate School and Prof. Oswald Ndolerire, former dean of the faculty of Arts.
The shortlist will be ready today. The candidates will also be individually interviewed by the senate and later by the University Council. They are also supposed to present a paper as part of the competition.
Many top university officials are tight-lipped about the exercise. But some women lecturers favoured a woman.
The new vice-chancellor is expected by November 2003, to take over office in January 2004.
Three women are among the contenders in the hot race for the coveted job of Makerere University Vice-Chancellor.
The women competing with five other academics are Associate Prof. Joy Kwesiga who heads the gender mainstreaming division, Prof. Mary Okwakol of the Zoology Department and the Vice-Chancellor of Gulu University and Prof. Kibirige Teresa Ssebunya, who works in Botswana.
The other academics hoping to occupy Makerere’s top office are Wasswa Balunywa, head of the University’s Nakawa-based Business School (MUBS), Prof. Dr. Elly Katunguka, the dean of the veterinary medicine faculty and academic staff representative to the university council. Others are Prof. Opuda-Asibo, director of the Post-Graduate School and Prof. Oswald Ndolerire, former dean of the faculty of Arts.
The shortlist will be ready today. The candidates will also be individually interviewed by the senate and later by the University Council. They are also supposed to present a paper as part of the competition.
Many top university officials are tight-lipped about the exercise. But some women lecturers favoured a woman.
The new vice-chancellor is expected by November 2003, to take over office in January 2004.