Vice Chancellor Prof. Laban P. Ayiro at University of Iowa for the Center for Innovative Leadership and Governance (CLIG) training for University Leaders.

Prof. Laban P. Ayiro ended the pre-Easter week with a visit to the University of Northwestern where he met the President Dr. Alan Cureton and Prof. Mark Seignious of UNW Radio KTIS.  Prof. Seignious was part of the UNW/KTIS team that travelled to Nairobi last June to set up the Daystar University Communication studios.

Since arriving in the US on Saturday 2nd April 2022, the Vice Chancellor has had the following engagements:

April 4 – 9, 2022:

Attended training on fundraising for Vice Chancellors from Africa at the University of Iowa Centre for Innovative Leadership and Governance (CLIG). The training brought together VCs and education sector CEO's from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Ghana, Morocco, Egypt, and the Republic of South Africa.

The training was facilitated in collaboration with the Institute for International Business (IIB), a CLIG partner, under the theme a partnership between John Pappa John Entrepreneurship Centre and the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa.

The CLIG University Leaders’ Training focuses on issues that leaders from African universities strive to address in order to transform their institutions, with knowledge shared envisaged to equip and enhance their work. The training also offers opportunities to partner with US institutions. The package includes visits to various places of interest like Innovation hubs, research parks, modern Engineering and Science labs using Artificial Intelligence (AI). Participants will also participate in some cultural activities including home visits.  Content coverage included:

Entrepreneurship and Innovation (Sample a Student Incubator)

• How to develop and manage start-ups
• Innovation centers and incubation hubs
• Appreciate the idea of start-ups in universities
• Plan and manage innovative ideas for students, faculty, and staff

Managing Growth

• How to create an entrepreneurial ecosystem with your university

Leading through a Polarity Lens:

• How to be an effective and successful leader

Experiential Learning & Business Consulting:

• How we bring real world experience to classrooms

• Continuing Education Tour:

• Successful blended learning/distance learning models
• Walk the leaders through the various tools and technology available to students and faculty that help facilitate distance learning from the Studio.

• Fundraising strategies, Alumni and Corporate Engagement

• Multiple connection points used to encourage graduates stay active as volunteers and how to ask them to personally participate in growth and success through philanthropy.

• College of Public Health

• Discussion on public health training, education, and research collaboration possibilities

• Mainstreaming Research in Universities
• Research and how to fund your ventures.
• Successful grant writing

• Internationalization Process
• Technology Commercialization
• Co-working space
• Dealing with Change in an Organization
• University Planning & Space Utilization:
• How to re-engineer space utilization in your university