Academic life

 Academic activities at Helderberg

These are the pictures from Helderberg College graduation and my holiday class for Marcio, Igor and Adalgisa .

throwing the graduation cabs at the bell tower
Helderberg College faculty and administrators during graduation ceremony
Yosselin, Werner and Suzanne
Igor, Marcio and Adalgisa

 Millenium village: A UN project in Rwanda

My last class in Baraton: The HRM students
Loreen, Lucy, Kathrine, Yunidah, Emily, Caroline O., Caroline N., Ann Chebet,
Matongo, Sapna, Edina, Edna, Pricilla.
The two ladies at the back are Melayie and Chebet Ruto
Eric, Mbaki, Osiemo, Eli, Naftal, Francis, Felix, Clement, Banze (seated),
Banda, Amani, Raju, Mulama, Dancan, Ali;
Back row: Mark, Chipo, Peter, Miller, Rop, Preacher, Juma, Simbayi,
Chirchir, Mphatso, Masinga, Rogito, Daniel




Evans, Naftal, Mbaki, Simbayi, Rogito, Raju, Amani, Dancan and Sapna
The three musketeers: Mbaki, Naftal, Chirchir
Sapna, Nyariki, Chebet, Namitondo, Maramba
Sapna and Raju
Amani, Simbayi, Mulama and Osiemo
   
Melayie and Loreen
Amani and Simbayi


The academic exercise of the MBA progams
The following pictures showed how we evaluate our MBA students' academic performance through their MBA thesis defend
The lady in red is Proff. Dr. Elizabeth Role our Director of graduate studies and statistician, adviser and lecturer. The lady in green is Dr. Corazon Banaga our Department chairperson, lecturer, thesis adviser and panelist. Dr. William Ondari is the thesis adviser, panelist and lecturer. 
Shown in other pictures are Dr. William Tieng'o- our Dean, panelist, adviser and lecturer; Dr. Stanley Nangoy- MBA coordinator, adviser, panelist, and lecturer; Mr. Richard Omondi- thesis defend secretary, adviser, panelist, and lecturer; Mr. Daniel Bwanda- Accounting Department chairperson, adviser, panelist and lecturer; Mr. Peter Akuno- adviser, panelist and lecturer,

CEOs 2020
Strategic Management class is a training for our senior students to take a role as future CEOs. The subject covers topics of establishing corporate vision and mission, doing external and internal audit, setting long term objectives, formulating/implementing and evaluating strategies. Besides lecture they also work on case studies, and did simulation by doing presentation as CEOs defending the strategies they have formulated in one day "proxy corporate board meeting".
It was nice to see my students transformed themselves into proxy CEOs and also acted so professional as well.

Corporate Planning Kigali 2011 Class

Didacienne. Willy, Odette, Perus, Joseph, Donald, Olivier, Oscar, Hilaire
Hilaire, Donald, Jean, Lois, Marc, Gervais, Olivier, Oscar
Perus with power point presentation
Donald CEO of Sambosa business- a  role play
Evaluation of School board governance at Nyamata millenium village program
Taking notes for the report
Health Center at Nyamata- millennium village project
With the school principal- Antoinette, Jonas, Christine, Calixtte, Rumiya, Sam, Samuel
Singing group led by Marc and Gervais

MY HRM CLASS AT BARA-NEC
There are only twelve students in my HRM class and ten of them are ladies. This is the first time for me to have my MBA class here in our new campus. Though most of them must struggle to survive the Nairobi traffic jam, my students always showed great enthusiasm when we had our discussions. The two gentlemen are Jones and Dennis, while the ladies are Mary Cheif, Mary Kimari, Joy, Leah, Shiela, Grace, Michieka, Shico, Nyokabi and Joan. We took these pictures after we finished the class session.

MBA THESIS DEFEND
Six MBA candidates successfully presented their thesis on June 27, 2011 at the UEAB Humanity Conference room. Four Rwandan candidates are Deogratias Nzabonimpa, Justin Gashema, Eugene Rutungwa and Therese Uwimana from the MBA AUCA campus, Kigali - Rwanda, while Abiud Machogu - Kenyan who is currently teaching as Business lecturer at AUCA and Mugara Mwalango - a Tanzanian lady accountant are from UEAB main campus. The following pictures are from their presentations.
Deo - Determinants of students entrepreneurship
Mugara - Leadership and employee turn-over inclination
Justin - Corporate Performance and Image
Eugene - Customers' perception on Tourism services
Abiud - Determinants of ICT adoption
Therese - Leadership style and employee burn out

Business research and Marketing research projects presentation 
Students who take Business research and Marketing research are required to present their research projects in front of panels of three members. As their research teacher I must accompany the students during the preliminary preparation from formulating the statement of the problem, research framework, research objectives, research questions, hypothesis as well as assisted them in the formulation of questionnaires, and data collection. The next steps was assisting the students in writing the research projects. This subject really took almost of my office time..... reading and consulting them.
Helping them set the margin, setting the paper layout, applying APA and using the SSPS are the most common assistance they need, however everyone are relieved after they finished and received their grades.


MBA Program and Secretarial class at the LMS guest house and conference center Nairobi
 My wife and I spent about 3 weeks at the LMS guest house in Nairobi. UEAB has an extension program which mostly serve the office workers who need to upgrade their knowledge and skills for their career development. This time I have only eight students in my two MBA classes, while my wife had 8 students in her Key boarding class.
All classes usually started at 17:30 pm and ended at 21:30 every day from Monday to Thursday, and from 9:00 am to 13:00 pm, lunch break, 14:00- 18:00 pm on Sunday.

Seminar for Engwen Youth in Kapsabet
Kenya and US government are working hard to promote the reform and development agenda in the rural area to prevent the youth from participating in unwanted activities such as riot, looting, burning and killing as what has happened during the post-election incidents in January 2008.
I was invited as the main speaker for the program coordinated by the Kapsabet Emgwen Organization. It was a one day seminar about business administration and entrepreneurship. Twenty participants were selected from different leaders of Youth organizations in Kapsabet and Nandy Hills area to participate in this seminar.