In her report, the University Vice Chancellor, Dr. Olive Sabiiti disclosed that 46 of the day’s graduands are scholarship students, 24 of them male and 22 females, including a remarkable student Robert Duku who rose from a cleaner to a first-class degree IT bachelor’s degree, and now enrolling for a master’s degree.
Over one thousand graduands have been awarded diplomas and degrees of Cavendish University Uganda (CUU) by the university chancellor, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan, the former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, at a ceremony held at Speke Resort Munyonyo Convention Centre.
The 14th Graduation Ceremony ran on the Theme: “Empowering Futures: Cultivating Leaders for a Global Tomorrow.”
Dr. Goodluck charged graduands with the duty to realize that as they end their academic journey, they are embarking on the journey of their leadership career, and urged them to brace for new life in a world of rapid change that calls for boldness, innovation and entrepreneurship.
He stressed the importance of going on any journey together as a team and not in isolation, noting that their role is to uplift communities as a group of enterpreneurs, predicting success for them when they encounter financial and other hurdles, personal setbacks and other challenges in life.
He implored them to endeavor to be relevant in the fast-changing world economy, to be best leaders with the urge to listen, compassion to make a difference, and resilience for responsibility in whatever they do.
The Ag. Director General for the East African Development Bank (EADB) Bernard Paul Mono urged the finalist students to count themselves blessed to have got the opportunity to graduate at Cavendish University Uganda, noting that many would have loved to go through the same journey but were unable due to constraints.
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He thanked management of CUU for having done the right thing rightly, as testified by the immediate graduation. He singled out the university’s emphasis on technology which he said is the future of society, and noted that their graduates are going to take the job market by storm.
Mono said the EADB has been an active player in the education sector especially in public and private universities where it has provided financial facilitation in setting up infrastructure, with a view to contribute to leadership under which he said, everything falls as a key determinant for success.
The Quality Assurance Director Prof. Omolara Olubayi Oluwaniyi reminded the graduands that they carry the wealth of the nation between their ears, and advised them to ably apply this wealth all the time to avoid being classified as people who are nothing in this world.
Prof. Olubayi lamented that from pre-historic times, Africa was doomed to remain in the sixth and last position, and challenged the elite to use the wealth between their ears to change this situation for a better future.
In her report, the University Vice Chancellor, Dr. Olive Sabiiti disclosed that 46 of the day’s graduands are scholarship students, 24 of them male and 22 females, including a remarkable student Robert Duku who rose from a cleaner to a first-class degree IT bachelor’s degree, and now enrolling for a master’s degree.
Dr. Sabiiti disclosed that the university’s centre for innovation and entrepreneurship partnering with African and global universities was opened, and that it has enrolled 30 students. She also noted that through its entrepreneurship arrangement, Ritah Nagudi, a law student, launched her herbal tea.
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