The Jesuit Fathers Trustees of Eastern Africa Province propose to establish a private, Catholic, university in Kenya. The proposed university will be a collaborative effort of the Jesuit Province of Eastern Africa and other Jesuit universities. The Proposed Hekima University has applied to the Commission for University Education (CUE) Kenya for accreditation and initial permission to operate as an independent Private university.

A Business Plan for the Initiative has been developed and the proposed university intends to offer undergraduate, postgraduate, and executive programmes to students from member countries of the Eastern Africa Province of the Society of Jesus, the East African Community (EAC), and beyond. The proposed university’s programmes will aim at empowering students with intellectual competence, social consciousness, and ethical values that will move them to be compassionate and positive agents of social transformation in order to create a more just and humane society. Fr. Peter-Hans Kolvenbach described key principles of Jesuit education this way: Context, Experience, Reflection, Action, and Evaluation.