• Meeting of the Project Steering Committee - AAU Capacity Development Project for the Revitalization of African Higher Education Institutions (AAU-CADRE)
• Meeting of Organising Committees
SUNDAY MAY 3, 2009
09.00 - 12.30 Registration of participants
14.30 - 18.00 Registration continues
17.30 Meeting of Elections Committee
MONDAY MAY 4, 2009
08.00 - 09.00 Registration continues
09.00 - 10.30 OPENING CEREMONY
Chair: H.E. Umaru Musa Yar’dua, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
• Welcome Address by Prof. Nuhu Yaqub
Vice Chancellor, University of Abuja, Nigeria
• Statement by Prof. Njabulo Ndebele
President of AAU
• Goodwill Messages
• Address and Opening by H.E. Umaru Musa Yar’dua, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
• Vote of thanks by Prof. Ishaq Oloyede
Vice Chancellor, University of Illorin, Nigeria
10.30 - 11.30 Group Photograph
Tea/Coffee Break
11.30 - 13.00 AAU BUSINESS SESSION I
Chair: Prof. Njabulo Ndebele, President, AAU
• Adoption of Programme of the General Conference
• Adoption of the Rules of Procedure
• Election of the Bureau
• Approval of Rules of Procedure for Elections of President, Vice-Presidents & Members of the Executive Board
• Membership of Elections Committee
• Constitution of Working Groups & Election of Chairpersons of the Groups
• Appointment of Convenors for Regional Caucuses
13.00 - 14.30 Lunch
14.30 - 18.30 CONFERENCE OF RECTORS, VICE-CHANCELLORS AND PRESIDENTS OF AFRICAN UNIVERSITIES (COREVIP)
Chair: Prof. Njabulo Ndebele, President, AAU
14.30 - 15.30 Overview of Nigerian Higher Education
Prof. Julius Okojie, Executive Secretary
National Universities Commission, Nigeria
15.30 - 16.00 Tea/Coffee Break
16.00 - 17.30 Keynote Addresses:
“Sustainable Development in Africa: The Role of Higher Education”
• Dr. Kevin Urama, Executive Director African Technology Policy Studies Network, Kenya
• Prof Jeffrey Sachs, Director of Earth Institute, Columbia University (video presentation)
19.00 - 21.00 Welcome Reception hosted by Universities of Abuja and Ilorin
TUESDAY MAY 5, 2009
Theme: “Sustainable Development in Africa: The Role of Higher Education”
08.30 - 10.30 Scientific Session I
Chair: Prof. Shamsudeen Amali, Vice President, AAU
08.30 - 09.30 International Perspectives on Higher Education for
Sustainable Development in Africa
o UNIDO - Mr. M. Masushita, UNIDO representative Abuja
o The Earth Charter – Prof. Peter Blaze Corcoran, Director of the Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education, Gulf Coast University, Florida, USA
o UNEP – Dr. Akpezi Ogbuigwe, Head, Environmental Education and Training Unit
National Examples on Shaping Higher Education for Sustainable Development
• Brazil: Prof. Ziolé Zanato Mahaldas, Federal University of Parana (UFRU), Brazil
• Japan: Dr. Yuto Kitamura, Nagoya University, Japan
• South Africa: Prof. Heila Lotz-Sisitka, Rhodes University, South Africa
Chair: Dr. Akpezi Ogbuigwe
Head, Environment Education
and Training, UNE
- TESSA OER: A Sustainable Approach to Teacher
Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Jophus Anamuah-Mensah
- A House with Twenty-Five Front Doors: Practical Teaching and Learning for Sustainable Development in Africa
- William R. Godfrey
- Rethinking University Education in Kenya: The Case for ESD in Higher Education
- Gitile J. Naituli et al
- The Curriculum as a Living Document for Achieving
Education for Sustainable Development
- Joe O. Akinmusuru
- Sustainable Cultural and Nature- based Tourism Development in Higher Education
- Matilda De Beer
- Sustainable Development and the Role of Students in Africa
- Oludare Ogunlana
-Greening the Campus: Participatory approaches from Canada
- Anthony Petroutsas
- Greening the Campus Environment: The University of Ilorin Experience
- Is-haq O. Oloyede, K. L. Ayorinde and F.A. Oladele
- La logique controversée des universités africaines dans la promotion du développement durable : les universités, entre théories protectrices et pratiques
destructrices de l’environnement
- Moussa Mbegnouga
- Building capacity for innovation in Africa’s largest and most diverse industry: universities in agricultural
learning platforms
- Ralph von Kaufmann et al
- Gestion intégrée et développement durable des zones côtières ouest africaines : l’expérience et le projet de la Chaire de l’UCAD
- Alioune Kane
- Sustainable Paths In Higher Education
- Valtencir Maldonado
Wednesday MAY 8, 2009
09.00 - 10.00 AAU African Higher Education Award
10.00 - 10.30 Tea/Coffee Break
10.30 - 13.00 GROUP SESSIONS
GROUP C:
Chair: Prof. Heila Lotz-Sisitka,
Rhodes University, South Africa
GROUP D:
Chair: Prof. Alioune Kane, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal
-Higher Education for Sustainable Development in China
- Dongjie Niu et al
- A model for building sustainable academic research - African Higher Education Research Online (AHERO)
- Shehaamah Mohamed
- The Challenges of Financing Research in Higher Education in Africa
- Ngotho Wa Kariuki
- Strengthening Natural Science Research and Education in African Universities
- Marilyn Pifer
- Facilitating Entrepreneurial Competence for Informal Sector Development: Challenges and Insight into the Cameroon Tertiary Sector
- Fomba Emmanuel Mbebeb
- Achieving Sustainability Compliance in Higher Education in Nigeria
- Iyenemi Ibimina Kakulu & B. B. Fakae
- A Rural Clinical School as Leverage For Sustainable Rural Development: An Opportunity for the University of Stellenbosch’s Health Sciences Faculty - Therese Fish
- Engaging Communities in soil fertility management for Sustainable Agricultural Production: Case studies
from Kakamega and Nakuru districts
- F.N. Wegulo et al
- From Footprinting to Sustainability: A Pedagogy of Hope
– H. Russel Botman
• Research and Education Networking Unit
• Database of African Theses and Dissertations
• HIV/AIDS
• Quality Assurance and Harmonisation of Higher Education
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.30 PARALLEL EVENTS
• Regional Centres of Expertise by the Institute of Advanced Studies of the United Nations University, Japan
• Global Master’s in Development Studies for Development Professionals by the Earth Institute, Columbia University, USA
16.00 - 17.30 Meeting of “Friends of AAU” (by invitation)
17.30 - 18.30 Meeting of Sub-Regional Caucuses for Executive Board Elections
FRIDAY MAY 8, 2009
08.30 - 10.30 AAU BUSINESS SESSION II
Chair: Prof. Njabulo Ndebele, President, AAU
• Executive Board Resolutions for Ratification
- Admission of New Members 2005-2008
- Amendments to the Bye-Laws
• Proposed Amendments to the Constitution of the AAU
• Proposed Amendments to the Bye-Laws of the AAU
• Report of the Executive Board to the General Conference
• Core Programme 2009-2013
• Any Other Business
10.30 - 11.00 Tea/Coffee Break
11.00 - 12.30 Discussion of AAU reports in Working Groups
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 16.00 PLENARY SESSION IV
Chair: Prof. George Magoha, Member, Executive Board, AAU
14.00 - 15.30 Presentation and Discussion of Reports of Working Groups
15.30 - 16.00 Reports from Parallel Events
16.00 - 16.15 Tea/Coffee Break
16.15 - 17.00 Presentation of the Report of the General Conference by the Rapporteur-General and
Adoption of Report
Chair: Prof. Njabulo Ndebele, President, AAU
17.00 - 18.00 ELECTION OF PRESIDENT,VICE-PRESIDENTS AND MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE
BOARD
• Reports from the Elections Committee and Election of 1. The President. 2. The 3 Vice-Presidents. 3. Members of the Executive Board.
18.00 CLOSING CEREMONY
Chair: Prof. Njabulo Ndebele, AAU President
• Closing Address by Prof. Ishaq Oloyede
Vice Chancellor, University of Ilorin, Nigeria
• Address by newly-elected President of the AAU
• Vote of Thanks - Prof. Goolam Mohamedbhai, AAU Secretary-General
• Closing Remarks by Prof. Njabulo Ndebele Out-going AAU President
19.00 Meeting of newly-elected Executive Board
19.30 Closing Reception hosted by the AAU
