University working toward fostering technology transfer, community development
Of late, The Ethiopian Herald had a brief while with President of Hawassa University, Dr. Yosef Mamo regarding a number of issues. Here under follows part of the discussion. Herald: Let us begin our discussion with the university's performance in relation to teaching-learning process, academic research as well as its community development engagements? Dr. Yosef: I shall start with the performance evaluation result that was piled up in 2005. The result has shown that Hawasa University stands second outranked by Jimma University, according to a preview criteria which consisted over two hundred elements. Among the criteria, teaching-learning process, academic research, community development service and good governance were the major ones. Coming to the teaching and learning process, as it is known the university has five campuses: The main campus, College of Wondo Genet Forrest and Natural Resource Conservation, College of Agriculture, College of Health Science Campus an