University of Zimbabwe

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**University of Zimbabwe**

Motto	Knowledge Diligence and Integrity
Established	1952
Type	Public
Chancellor	Robert Mugabe
Vice-Chancellor	Levi Nyagura
Faculty	42 professors, 228 lecturers, 333 instructors
Undergraduates	11,200
Postgraduates	500
Location	Harare, Zimbabwe
Campus	Urban
Website	www.uz.ac.zw

The University of Zimbabwe (UZ), is the first, largest and most complete university in Zimbabwe. It was founded through a special relationship with the University of London and it opened its doors to its first students in 1952. Faculties are located at the 180 hectare principal campus in the northern Harare suburb of Mount Pleasant. The College of Health Sciences is located at Parirenyatwa Hospital, Harare and was established under the auspices of Birmingham University in 1963. English is the language of instruction.

1 History
2 Current developments
3 Organization
4 Residences
5 Sports
6 Vice Chancellors
7 Notable alumni
8 Notable faculty
9 External links

[edit] History

1945 – First proposal for a university college in Rhodesia.
1946 – The Legislative Assembly of Southern Rhodesia calls for the establishment of a university college to serve the needs of Rhodesia and neighbouring territories.
1947 – The Governors of Southern Rhodesia Governor of Southern Rhodesia establishes the Rhodesia University Foundation Fund.
1948 – The City of Salisbury (now Harare) provides land for the construction of the campus.
1952 – The Legislative Assembly of Southern Rhodesia enacts a bill for the incorporation and constitution of the university. An Inaugural Board is established by the Act. First classes begin on the old Baker Street site.
1953 July – Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, lays the foundation stone on the Mount Pleasant site.
1955 February – The University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is established by Royal Charter
1956 – The College is admitted to the privilege of Special Relation with the University of London. The Academic Board is formed.
1957 – All activities transferred to Mount Pleasant. Teaching for full-time students begins in the Faculties of Arts and Science and for graduates taking the one-year Certificate in Education programme.
1963 – The Medical School is opened and is affiliated to the University of Birmingham. After the dissolution of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, the University College continues as an independent institution of higher education and research, open to all races.
1970 – A phased termination of the associations with the Universities of London and Birmingham begins.
1971 – The University College achieves university status and becomes the University of Rhodesia.
1980 – After Independence, the University of Rhodesia becomes the University of Zimbabwe.
1982 – The Royal Charter is replaced by an Act of Parliament.
2001 – Student population increases from 68 in 1957 to 2 240 in 1980 to 9 300 in 1990 and to 10 139 in 2001.

[edit] Current developments

With the advent of HIV/AIDS and the massive impact on Zimbabweans a collaboration with UCSF University of California, San Francisco was established.

[edit] Organization

There are 9 faculties and 1 college in which the university is divided into:

Faculty of Agriculture
Faculty of Arts
Faculty of Commerce
Faculty of Education
Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Law
College of Health Sciences Medicine
Faculty of Science
Faculty of Social Studies
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

[edit] Residences

Swinton Hall: Female
Carr-Saunders Hall: Female
Manfred Hodson Hall: Male, named after Leslie Manfred Noel Hodson
New Hall: Mixed, reserved mainly for foreigners
Mount Royal: Mixed
Medical Residence: Mixed
New Complex 1: Male
New Complex 2: Male
New Complex 3: Male
New Complex 4: Female
New Complex 5: Male, "Baghdad"

[edit] Sports

[edit] Vice Chancellors

Professor Levi Nyagura 2003-present
Professor Graham Hill (? -2003)
Professor Gordon Chavhunduka (? - ?)
Professor Walter Kamba (? - ?)

[edit] Notable alumni

Please add to this list; the criteria are debatable, but consesus will be reached:

Arthur Mutambara - Rhodes Scholar, Professor of Robotics (formely NASA), Politician
Dambudzo Marechera - novelist, poet, expelled from UZ, and later New College, Oxford; his first book The House of Hunger won the fiction prize, The Guardian 1979
Robert Choto - polymath, holder of 9 non-honarary degrees
Rudo Makunike - FRCPath, consultant paediatric pathologist, also faculty
Albert Nyathi - poet, highly praised by Nelson Mandela and has worked with Chelsea F.C.
Chenjerai Hove - poet, novelist, essayist. A critic of the recent policies of the Mugabe government
George Mutandwa Chiweshe - Retired Brigadier General,
Chirikure Chirikure - Shona poet, songwriter, writer. His first volume, Rukuvhute received Honorable Mention in the Noma Awards for Publishing in Africa, in 1990.
David Chifunyise - composer and singer of the intro to the popular Zimbabwean show studio 263 shown on ZBC
Lynnette B Sigola - Immunologist
Tsitsi Dangarembga - Author of Nervous Conditions and the story of Neria, the highest grossing Zimbabwean film of all time

[edit] Notable faculty

Please add to this list; the criteria are debatable, but consesus will be reached:

Christopher Chetsanga - Harvard discovered two enzymes involved in DNA repair
Innocent Gangaidzo - Oxford, worked on Helicobacter pylori
Lynn Zijenah - Cambridge, HIV research in association with Stanford University
Canaan Banana - Zimbabwe's first president
Jonathan Moyo - Lecturer Department of Political and Administrative Studies 1988–1993, political figure
Musaemura Zimunya - contemporary writer
Solomon Mutswairo - novelist, poet, wrote the text for the Zimbabwean national anthem, Writer-in-Residence
Welshman Ncube - Professor of Law and leading memember of the Movement for Democratic Change, was found not gulity in plot to assassinate the President of Zimbabwe involving Ari Ben-Menashe.