CUEA: Council of CUEA Approves 12-Year Strategic Plan, which Targets Transformation
CUEA Council Members
Sr. Jecinter Antoinette Okoth, FSSA
Council members of the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA) has after their four-day meeting in Nairobi, approved the institution’s ongoing strategic plan whose operations has been ongoing since the year 2018 with the aim of transforming the organization.
Sharing with AMECEA Online days after the meeting about the strategic plan which covers the period 2018-2030, the Vice-Chancellor (VC) of the university Very Rev. Prof. Stephen Mbugua Ngari narrates that the document which has planned activities for the learning institution is in three stages.
“A good strategic plan is one that aims to transform an organization and moves it forward from one stage to the next,” the VC explained and disclosed, “Our strategic plan covers three stages; the stabilization stage, the transformation stage and the growth.”
Expounding on the stabilization stage which commenced in 2018 and has been on going, the Vice Chancellor said the phase documented ways on how “the university was to be steered from loss making to being in a position to make its own operations such as paying salaries, and liabilities.”
“Even though the stabilization stage has taken slightly longer, it has helped us as a university to come from deficit to meeting our operations and start facilitating our liabilities” Fr. Mbugua explains in an interview Sunday, May 15, recalling the past challenges the university faced.
In the second stage of transformation he said, “This was meant to help us come out of debts which should eventually lead us to the realization of surplus from our budget. Hopefully by 2025 we shall have realized this transformation stage and completed our liabilities.”
Additionally, continues Fr. Mbugua, “In the growth stage we intend to increase infrastructures of the university including lecture halls, constructing new admission block and school of health science by 2030.”
“We anticipate that after clearing the debts, the money can now be used for development and for future investments of the University,” the VC narrated noting that all the three stages have been moving on simultaneously.
“Stabilization has fused with transformation and transformation has also in some way fused with growth,” the VC said after the meeting held from 9-12, May, highlighting that it is through the stages moving concurrently that the university has managed to pay its liabilities and at the same time make some improvement in the institution including digitalization, “so we could give hope to our customers that the university is not dead but growing on slowly.”
Besides approval of the 12-year strategic plan, some additional policies have also been approved and the financial budget for the year 2022/2023.
“We requested the council if our financial year could begin from 1st September to 30th August, so as to align our financial year with the academic year,” the VC disclosed the new changes in the period of the financial year of the university which the council approved.
