University of Nairobi Kisumu Campus

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University of Nairobi Kisumu Campus is the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) is one of the six Colleges of the University of Nairobi. Like the other five, it was established following the recommendations of the 1985 Presidential Visitation Committee headed by Mr. Geoffrey Kariithi. The College comprises one faculty, four schools and five institutes and a centre.

CHSS is the largest College of the University with over fifty percent of the total student enrolment and staff. University of Nairobi operates in several locations namely, Main, Parklands, Lower Kabete, Mombasa and Kisumu campuses and at the National Museum. The faculties, schools, institutes and centres offer a wide array of academic and research programmes.

The mandate of University of Nairobi Kisumu Campus is to coordinate the implementation of University policies and programmes in the humanities and social sciences.

The Department of Extra-Mural Studies, in its endeavour to maintain its status as a leader offering University education by extra-mural methods in Kenya, come along to be where it is today. The first Department of Extra-Mural Studies was founded in Makerere in 1953, and under this Department, the first resident tutor for Kenya was appointed in 1956.

In 1963 the responsibility of organising the extra-mural studies in Kenya was transferred to a new Extra-Mural Department of the then University College, Nairobi. In the same year, the College of Social Studies, Kikuyu, which had run an independent centre for residential adult education since 1961, was absorbed into the University College, Nairobi.

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