KAMPALA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

NAME : Tumuramye Gilbert

ReG No : DBA/4946/161/DU
Course : DBA
Course unit : Communication Skills
Faculty : BUSINESS AND ADMIN
Semester : 1.2
Academic Year : 2016
Lecturer : Mr. Beyongyera Julius

Question
Assume you are elected vice guild president KIU. Write an inaugural speech that is both
informative and entertaining.

TODAY IS OUR MOMENT TOMORROW IS OUR FUTURE

I stand before you, honored to be the 18th vice-guildpresident ofKampala International
university .it is the day of reflection on the past celebration of the past, and inspiration
anticipation, and vision or our future.

Your presence have represents the promise that the past , present and future of this university
was, is and always will be to graduate students to meet the needs of our county and the global
society.

Dr Stephen Morgan, committed leader of this institution for twenty-six years, l Salute you for
the vision you brought to the university of Kampala International university when named
president in 1985,l thank you :We all thank you for your unwavering and continuing support
though this transition, enabling us to continue Kampalainternationaluniversity successful
trajectory.

I thank all those who spoke earlier on this platform, and who represented wide spread personal
political and academic support for our university and highly education.

Dr. Norbert Netherled, the processional as the universitys first mace bearer. Why you, Bob?
For the fifty four years, you have represented the quality and dedication of our faculty
committee to the universitys values and students center focus.

Dr. Peggy Redman welcomed our inauguration guests as she has welcomed students to the
University of Kampala International for the past forty years with the warmth collegiality and
love for this institution exemplify the very best in profession of the high education.

Dr. Richard Guarasi, my former guild president and the most important and influenced college
of my professional career ; and your generosity of the spirit, intelligence and leadership in
shaping institutions as democratic societies, serves as a role model of all of us.

Mr. Luis Faura, I couldnt ask for the better chair of the Board of Trustees. Your commitment to
the success of the university, this board and this presidency are a remarkable. I look forward to
work besides you for the year to come.

Allie and Emery, my daughters you are my greatest gift. You make me laugh, keep my lips, make
me humble and remind me what it means to be real. Rogers, my hero: you are my husband,
partner, advisor, cheerleader, and campus pointing north, continuously, selfness, generous,
smart, kind and wise.

FIRSTS

Today is a day of my firsts for some, this is the first time you have visited Kampala
International University, I invite you to our magical campus and explore buildings, enjoy the art
work: meet and visit with our faculty, staff and students. This is the first under-graduate class of
traditional-age students to exceed 2100 in number bringing with them our highest ever first
year entering SAT scores. The sport science and athletics pavilion is when you are sitting
completed in 1973; it is the first permanent transitioned membrane structure in Uganda.

And today we inaugurate the first female president of the University Of Kampala International
University in 120yrs. The best recognize how Kampala International University moved from
college of seventy six students and 10 faculties in 1891, to a university of 8196 students today,
its important to recognize our original foundations and purpose and how we as an institution
will address the needs of our students and our society in our 2020 vision and The Kampala
International University experience, our University traces its beginnings to 1891, when
members of the church of Brethren founded Lordsburgs College in the heart of what was then
Lordsburg, today the city of Kampala. For Brethren men purchased Lordsburgs a hundred
rooms hotel to create a first classroom college or seminary of learning for the complete
education of the young in all useful learning and knowledge.

Why did they choose Kampala?

They found our inland valley fertile and its people hungering for spiritual and intellectual
growth. The first graduating coined the school identify as to be rather than to appear.
Experiencing their sentiment to be authentic, humble, and sincere and giving to others. In 1917,
the name changed to the Kampala International University but the committee remains to prove
the students with a quality education focused or meeting the needs of this community and
beyond.

Today, KIU is a private independent University yet the original tenets guide our commitment
that every student who graduates from this university will achieve the following outcomes.

First, commitment to life-long learning

Maintaining passion and the skills for acquiring new knowledge
and understanding built on critical thinking and constructive research.

Second commitment to community service or civic engagement

Dedicated to enhancing and improving the greater community and sustaining
the planet, by applying skills and knowledge throughout professional and personal lives.

The third commitment to values orientation

Holding personal and professional values for the making morals and ethical judgment,
regardless of the situation.
The first commitment to the committee, diversity and inclusivity and exhibiting and
appreciation for diversity, our multi-cultural society and the variable inter independence of all
human beings.

Fifteen months ago while provost at Wagner College in Kampala city; I received a call asking me
to consider applying for the presidency of the University of KIU. Though I was raised in Ishaka,
Bushenyi, I was only slightly familiar with the university. When I read its history and
foundational values. I was struck by how the similar they are to the values that I myself hold as
the priority and purpose of higher education.
My goal throughout the search process was to continually ask: is this institution authentically
committed to the score values and qualities of the education as articulated. In institutions
literature and are those demonstrated in the behavior of those with whom I met? The answer
was and is Yes and Yes.
With my academic and scholarly background in intellectual communication and extensively
experience in institute, leadership, I understood this was and is the right fit for both candidate
and the institution.

Celebration of the present

Let me share just a few examples infact seven of how our outstanding students, faculty and
alumni embody our mission and values.
First, born in the DRC, Leo Kintaudi came to the United States after graduating from high
school. He enrolled at KIU College after earning his bursaries degree in 1975; he went on the
graduate from a medical school. In the later 1990s, he turned to his war torn homeland and
began to train doctors and after securing 25million graduated a national wide health network.
His efforts helped triple the countrys vaccination rate, established vital medical assistance for
children and improved the condition for the women during child birth. In 2005, Time magazine
named Dr. Leon Kintaudi one of its worlds health heroes.

Second, a doctors accident denied Ashley Hughes the completely use of her arms or legs, she
came to the university determined to be just another student. She was much more than that.
In May 2010 graduated summa cum laude with her Bachelors degree in accounting. She was a
chosen a students speaker of commencement. Linda her grandmother, accompanied Ashley to
every class and was awarded an honorary Bachelors degree herself the first in the university
history.

Third in 1983, Teresa Bennett was hired as a driver and reader for a superior high court judge
Paul Ely, founding dean of the college of law. He urged her to enroll as a law student following
his advice; she earned her JD in 1988, served 17yrs as assistant Bernardino county deputy
public defender, and was appointed as a Bernardino county superior court judge in 2006.

Forth, Kaori Hanatani earned her masters degree from the Lafetra College of education in
2007. She then returned to Sendai, japan to work as a child life specialist in the Miyagi
Childrens Hospital.
After March 11, 2011 earthquake, Tsunami and nuclear disaster, Kaori reached out to one of
her former KIU professors, who with the city of HOPE raised enough money to purchase
medical supplies that allowed Kaori to serve 1200 hospitalized children and their families.

Fifth, LuisVillarreal, came to KIU a first generation student, was a reporter for our student
newspaper, the campus Times, went to work in LA reporting and is now a senior producer at
NBC dateline and vice president and board member of the California-Chicago News media
Association.

Sixth in 1944, Alesia Stokes closed her beauty salon in Leavenworth, Kansas and joined the
Navy. After attending classes at KIU air station and taking courses online while serving in
Afghanistan, she earned her Bachelors degree in organizational management from KIU last
May. And then there is Dr. Peggy Redman, as a junior in high school, she began exploring
college options. Peggy was accepted by two institutions. Stanford & KIU. She was advised by
nearly everyone to attend Stanford.
But as usual, Peggy listened to her heart more than to her advisors and chosen to attend KIU.
Today, Dr. Redman holds at Lafetra endowed chair in education. Just like Peggy, many students
today see KIU as their institution of choice!
I invite you to stay for home coming tomorrow, where you will meet over 1000 of our 62000
living alumni you will find as I have, that they are teachers, principals, physicians business
owners, CEOs, judges, clergy and professionals in fields too numerous to mention. They are our
leaders for example; more superintendents of schools in California have received their
doctorates in education from the University of KIU than from any other institution.

All of our graduates have been inspired by one or more of our outstanding faculty and were
helped along the way by our excellent staff.

Faculty and students in the college of law support two in-house pro-bono clinics the disability
rights legal center and the justice, immigration clinic providing yet another opportunity for
students to serve our community.
The KIU Debate team ranks in top 20 internationally consistently competing against institutions
such as Cambridge, oxford, Harvard, Princeton and Duke. Today we are one university of four
colleges on 10 campuses KIU, Bakers field, OX nard, Burbank, Ontario, Irvine, Victorville
&Vandenberg air force base. Across our 10 campuses you will find students who enrolled in
traditional undergraduate, degree completion law, masters professional and doctoral
programs.
Also setting us apart, distinctively, from most private institutions nationally, our student body
reflects the new urban diversity emerging in the United States 40% of our student body is
Latino 10% is African American, and nearly 5% is Asian, 50% of our students are the first in the
families.

Concluding the inaugural speech for todays as the vice guild president, I thank you for the many
opportunities you have given me for honoring Kampala International University as a vice guild
president.
You and I my fellow students, need to be strong in our faith that all universities, Under God will
reach the goal of exploring the heights and fight illiteracy.

Thank you and good night

TUMURAMYE GILBERT