University of Maragoli
Kenya, Africa
As strategic advisor to the The University of Maragoli Foundation and architectural planner for this new University in Kenya, Africa, John Rossi serves on the institution’s core development team whose members are from Harvard University, Connecticut College, as well as a strategic alliance with Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
The University of Maragoli Foundation will establish a Centers of Excellence and its first University to begin to accommodate a portion of the 40,000 students each year capable and ready to begin advanced studies after high school however, they cannot secure their place in a Kenyan colleges and universities as their are too few. The result is that many capable young men and woman are left with little opportunity for advancement.
For the few families able to afford to send a child to study abroad, the results are bitter-sweet. Ultimately, their sons and daughters are educated but, it causes further erosion of traditionally tight-knit Kenyan communities and steals away a nation's youth and its leaders of tomorrow. Kenyans who do study in abroad, often build new lives and networks rarely returning to the mother land with knowledge and enterprise that would improve society.
The University of Maragoli Foundation is committed to reversing this trend by founding its first Centers of Excellence to foster future generations of Kenyan leaders whose intellectual capital will help lift the Country and the entire sub-Saharan region of Africa.
For more information and to become involved, please visit: www.UofMKenya.org
Estimated cost, Phase I: $30M
Estimated Completion Date: 2010
Photo credit: Kenya Institute of Education, Brian McMorrow