Nationality Kenyan Name Olive Mugenda Ethnicity Kikuyu Role Researcher | Citizenship Kenya Spouse Abel Gitau Mugenda Years active 1988 — present Residence Nairobi, Kenya | |
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Born 1956 (age 58–59) Kenya Occupation Academic & Academic Administrator Known for Administrative Skills, Body of Work Titles Chancellor, Kenyatta University Alma mater University of Nairobi, Iowa State University, Eastern and Southern African Management Institute Similar People Manu Chandaria, Jomo Kenyatta, Francis D Imbuga | ||
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Olive Mwihaki Mugenda is a Kenyan academic, researcher and academic administrator. She was the Vice Chancellor of Kenyatta University until 20 March 2016, one of the 22 public universities in Kenya, the largest economy in the East African Community. She was appointed to that position in 2006, the first woman to lead a public university in the African Great Lakes area.
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About habits by prof olive mugenda
Background and education
She was born and raised in Kenya. She attended the University of Nairobi, graduating with a Bachelor of Education degree. She studied at Iowa State University, obtaining the degree of Master of Science in family studies in 1983. Her degree of Doctor of Philosophy, in the same field, was obtained in 1988, also from Iowa State University. She also holds a Master of Business Administration from the Eastern and Southern African Management Institute.
Career
When she graduated with her first degree, she joined the staff at Kenyatta University, in 1981, as a tutorial fellow. Because she had done very well during her Bachelor of Education studies, obtaining a first class honours degree in the process, she was given a scholarship to study at Iowa State University for her masters and doctorate.
After her graduate studies in the United States, she returned to lecture at Kenyatta University. She specialized in "women’s education, home economics, statistics and research methodology". She was promoted from Lecturer to Head of Department, to Dean of Faculty. Then she was appointed Deputy Vice Chancellor for Finance and Planning. In 2006, when the position of Vice Chancellor at the university was advertised, she applied and beat three other applicants, all male, for the job. As Vice Chancellor, one of the major accomplishments is the establishment of Kenyatta University Referral Hospital, a 500-bed referral hospital, wholly owned by the university, which cost US$95 million to construct. In October 2013, Professor Olive Mugenda was appointed Chairperson of the Council of the Association of Commonwealth Universities. The Association is the oldest international universities network, with over 500 universities, in 37 countries as members. The secretariat is based in London, United Kingdom.
Family
Olive Mugenda and her husband, Professor Abel Mugenda, BA, MA, MSc, PhD, an academic at the University of Nairobi, are the parents of four children; two daughters and two sons, Albert, Christopher, Lynda and Angela. Their daughter, Angela, is an alumnus of Iowa State University, like both her parents.