“Go and be useful to yourself, to others and to your nation,” was the Vice Chancellor, Dr John Senyonyi’s message to the graduates during the 12th graduation held at the Bishop Tucker campus on 28 October.

At the ceremony 1,533 students were awarded diplomas, bachelors and master’s degrees, he reminded them that it is incumbent upon a UCU graduate to exhibit spiritual, social, intellectual, physical and emotional wholeness as Jesus Christ did.
The day had a double celebration as the Hamu Mukasa library was officially opened. To witness the occasion were the different stakeholders through whom the dream of a modern library was made possible.
The Anglican Archbishop of Uganda, and Chancellor of UCU, the Most Rev Luke Orombi, thanked all those who contributed to the project. He specially welcomed the guest of honour, the US Ambassador, Mr Jerry Lanier, whose presence signified the longstanding relationship between UCU and the American people and all the support they had given the university.
“I want to categorically state that without all this support, it would not have been possible to build UCU to the enviable status that you see today,” Orombi said.
Prof Stephen Noll, the former vice chancellor gave a brief biography of Hamu Mukasa, in whose honour the new library is named. Hamu Mukasa, a Sekiboobo, a deputy prime minister of Buganda and high notable among the Kabaka’s chiefs, donated the two square miles of the land on which on UCU, the Ntawo farm and Mukono diocese headquarters sit.
It has been a tradition at UCU to name buildings after treasured leaders in the church and society in Uganda.
A team from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) attended. They included senior executive officer, Mr Ed Michalski, the Culture affairs officer, Danielle Tedesco and environment officer Jessica llomu.
Other guests included the Hamu Mukasa family, UCU partners’ team from the US led by its president Mr Sherman White and executive director Mrs Diane Stanton.