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About Us

African Rural University (ARU) prioritizes a strong Alumni Association and an effective student tracer system for continuous course enhancement. ARU graduates, known as Rural Transformation Specialists (RTS), play a vital role in promoting sustainable rural development through visionary leadership and innovative, values-driven approaches.

Vision

African Rural University is a value-based all-women university that offers a professional discipline in Rural Development and enables students, staff, and supporters to have a shared vision and purpose; An institution that has governance and management systems that nurture and promote participatory decision-making, transformational education, training, and endogenous knowledge development; products which include community practice, publications, public lectures, library, Rural Transformation Specialists and Research Methodology based on the Visionary Approach; Professional Board of Trustees, Council, Staff and Promoters grounded in the principles of the creative process, disciplines of a learning organization and holistic development.

Mission

The African Rural University for Women provides transformational education to create effective change agents within an African development context. ARU applies theoretical learning, innovative instruction and field practice so that ARU graduates can create conditions for people to improve their lives, transform their communities, awaken inherent leadership, and increase their capacity for self-generating and sustainable change.