Kusiluka appointed OUT Deputy Vice Chancellor

The Chancellor of the Open University of Tanzania (OUT), Ambassador Dr. John S. Malecela, has appointed Professor Lughano Kusiluka the new Deputy Vice Chancellor in charge of the university`s Resource Management.

The appointment, endorsed by the Council in its last sitting, fills the post left vacant following the departure of Prof. Uswege Minga, who assumed a position with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in Nairobi, Kenya.

The appointment, which starts with immediate effect, is part of the ongoing sweeping reforms for the varsity in keeping with both the University Charter of 2007 and the Universities Act of 2005.

Already, the OUT has three Deputy Vice Chancellors - in charge of Academics, Regional Services and of late, Resource Management headed -Professors Dunstan Shemwetta, Elifas Bisanda and Lughano Kusiluka respectively.

Until his appointment, Kusiluka was an Associate Professor of Veterinary Medicine at the Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Head of the Department of Veterinary Medicine and Public Health at SUA, where he has worked for the past 11 years.