Nakuru Town Campus gets new Director

By Eric Sindabi

Egerton University Nakuru Town Campus,the home of Self Sponsored Programmes now has a new Director Professor Lenah Nakhone Wati. The immediate former director Prof.S.Kagwanja has been appointed deputy Principle in-charge of Administration and Finance at Chuka University College. Before her new assignment Prof.Nakhone was the Director of Crop Management and Research Centre (CMRT).
Talking to NewsLink recently, the new director said that her immediate goal was to stir SSP at Nakuru Town Campus to greater levels by first expanding facilities and creating centralized services. She said that there was a need to de-link most University Academic and Administrative services from the Main Campus in Njoro to provide efficiency at Nakuru Town Campus into meeting the University’s Vision and Mission.
The director hinted that the University Management was in a process of acquiring more space for Lecturer rooms and offices at Loncom House to reduce congestion at the Campus. She added that the Faculty of Commerce would soon be based at NTC.

Nakuru Town Campus located within Nakuru Municipality along George Morara Avenue is the foundation of the most competitive Bachelor of Commerce (BCOM) and Masters in Business Administration (MBA) Self Sponsored degree programmes. Other major courses based at the Campus include; Bachelor of Arts in Mass Media and Communication (BACOM), Bachelor of Library and Information Sciences (BLINS), Bachelor of Industrial Technology (BIT) and Masters in Industrial Technology (MIT).Nakuru Town Campus is also the centre of the Twining degree programmes between Egerton and Michigan Universities.
Prof. Nakhone joined Egerton University in 1984 as a lecturer in the department of Chemistry Faculty of Science. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Math and Chemistry and a Masters degree in Environmental Chemistry from the University of Nairobi. In 1986, she graduated with a PhD degree in Soil Sciences from the University of Nottingham (USA).In 2004 while on a sabbatical leave Prof.Nakhone won a Fullbright Senior Scholarship and taught and did research as a visiting scholar at Iowa State University-USA.
On the social scene, she is the President of the Nakuru region SOROPTIMIST International Club. The organization is an NGO which through charity and philanthropy aims at elevating the lives of marginalized women and girl child in the across the world. The NGO that is recognized by the United Nations comprises of educated and professional women who dedicate their energies and financial resources towards Community based Women related projects in over one hundred countries. It is headquartered in Philadelphia in the United States of America. Currently SOROPMIST is playing an active role in assisting women and girls in IDP camps in the country.