Kotebe University of Education (KUE) cast votes on the shortlisted candidates for Academic Affairs and Administration and Development vice presidents’ positions at the event held today, on the 27th of August 2022, at its main campus. The Governing Board, Senate and Council members of the University and representatives from academic and administrative staff and students’ union representatives participated in making decisions on the recruitment of the vice presidents for the aforesaid positions led by the electoral committee.
At the onset of the event, the electoral committee chairperson, Professor Yalew Endawoke, urged the electorates to be free, fair and rational in evaluating the potential of the candidates based on only and only the essence of the strategic plans presented, nothing else, towards the institution’s merits. As to the remarks of the chairperson, five candidates were shortlisted for each position based on the criteria set to evaluate their applications though afterwards some of them resigned for anonymous personal reasons.
The candidates were subsequently given ten minutes each to present their thought-to-be institutional strategic plans which were followed by explanations to questions posed by the attendees. The attendees were made to rate the ideas presented by the candidates based on the checklist set for the same purposes. Eventually, the electoral committee chairperson guaranteed electorates that the committee would fairly compute the cumulative results of the candidates’ experiences, qualifications and presentations, and then announce the winners shortly.
It was observed that 4 candidates competed for the Academic Affairs and two others ran for the Administration and Development vice presidents’ positions. Participants also noted that the free and fair election of the to-be-leaders was the first of its kind in KUE’s experience.
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