Coming to the Midlands State University, the MSU Alumni Association

Congratulations on completing your studies with the Midlands State University!!

We strongly value our graduates and want to keep in touch with you long after you have completed your studies with us.

We hope by the establishment of an Alumni to stay in touch with you and also help you remain in touch with friends you made whilst at University. The Alumni Association intends to ensure that its Alumni maintain ties with the University. The Alumni will provide opportunities for professional development, networking, friendship building and fundraising ventures.

Our mission is to connect alumni to the university and to each other, to provide valued services to members and to support the University's mission of teaching, research and service.

The Midlands State University intends to facilitate the formation of a Alumni association administered on the basis of FOUR regional chapters lead by regional Conveners and the mother NATIONAL CHAPTER . The National chapter will then elect the core of the Alumni Association's management being the Alumni Council lead by the Alumni Association President . The council will serve in a number of Association committees championing the cause of the Alumni and carrying out specific objectives related to planning and implementing alumni programs and services.

There will be a launch in each Chapter as follows-:

CHAPTER	PROVINCES	CITY	DATE
Central Chapter	Midlands and Masvingo	Gweru	Launched
Southern Chapter	Matebeleland North, Bulawayo, and Matebeleland South	Bulawayo	Still to be advised
Northern Chapter	Mashonaland West, Harare and Mashonaland Central	Harare	Still to be advised
Eastern Chapter	Mashonaland East and Manicaland	Mutare	Still to be advised
National Chapter	All regional Chapters

The strategic vision of the MSU Alumni Association

 

Driving from the University's vision, the Alumni Association seeks to continue the legacy of being a unique, development- oriented and stakeholder-driven Association that continually taps from its innovative and enterprising graduates.

We are confident that,

• as a University we have produced innovative and enterprising graduates
• we have the unshakable support of the University Council, the Vice-Chancellorship, Government, University staff, stakeholders and students of the University.
• we have the ability to capitalize on the University's unique academic reputation strengthened by full semesterisation, modularization, work related learning, flexible packaging, innovative honors degree programs and goodwill (external and internal).
• with a current student population figure of around 10 300 (as at September 2005) and with over 2000 graduates from the University's first 3 intakes, the Midlands State University is destined to provide the bulk of Zimbabwe's intelligentsia and consequently the dire need to coordinate these critical stakeholders into an Alumni Association.
• with strong Alumni membership, the University will generate more income, aggressively market itself and thrive in an environment characterized by increasing competition for limited public resources among various state priorities and obligations.

Benefits of being a Member

 

Membership to the Midlands State University Alumni Association keeps you connected to the University and fellow graduates.

As at October 2005 more than 3000 proud Alumni, including postgraduate students stand to benefit from membership.

Membership comes with invaluable benefits such as,

• Continued association with the University
• an ability to interact with fellow professionals
• networking and friendship building.
• Career connections through creating partnerships, developing resources, supporting networking and mentoring efforts of MSU students and alumni.
• serve as a point of access for those intending to be a career resource persons in activities such as career life planning and management, career personality assessments, job search skills, résumé writing, communication skills among others.
• Maintenance of University standards, through forging strategic links with industry and guarding the University's vision of being a stakeholder-driven University.
• Fundraising for the University and aggressively marketing its products and thus protecting its credibility as an institution of Higher learning.
• Access to University facilities, library, sports facilities, promotional material and resource persons.
• Keeping in touch through the Alumni Directory, publications, communications and the Alumni Magazine.
• Reunions parties and Homecoming events
• Engage in Recognition programs that will honor outstanding Alumni by recognizing service and achievement and by giving award recipients an opportunity to share their knowledge while serving as role models for the Midlands State University community.
• Engage in an MSU travel program, the goal would be to provide alumni and friends of the MSU with unique travel experiences and an opportunity to reconnect with the University and each other.
• Membership to Alumni societies and Alumni Interest Groups will give alumni an opportunity to connect to preferred academic units. Society members may also act as informal advisory boards to the Chairpersons of Department of Executive Deans of Faculties.

Come and be a part of the Midlands State University Alumni Association:

For further information please contact

The Midlands State University Alumni Association
C/O The Registrar
P Bag 9055
Gweru