{"id":426,"date":"2021-04-07T11:20:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T11:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haramaya.edu.et\/cep\/?page_id=426"},"modified":"2025-08-20T08:19:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T08:19:51","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.haramaya.edu.et\/dcde\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<h3>\n\t\t\t\t\tBackground\n\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t<br \/>\n\t<p>The DCDE, as one of academic units of Haramaya University, is organized to coordinate four education programs, namely Continuing, Distance, and Summer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Undergraduate Education Programs, and Continuing and Summer Postgraduate Program.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Haramaya University Directorates of Continuing and Distance Education, (DCDE) was established 30 years ago \u00a0with Continuing\u00a0 Education\u00a0 Program (CEP) .It started with\u00a0\u00a0 Certificate and Diploma Programs in the fields of Agriculture delivering education at Haramaya University and Harar centre. After few years, other\/additional CEP centres were established at Dire Dawa and Jigjiga .<\/p>\n<p>Summer Undergraduate Education Program (SEP) was opened in 1990 E.C. aiming to deliver education for teachers during summer vacation. After two years, in 1993, The distance education program was initiated to deliver education (to the level of diploma) in several fields of education\u00a0 jointly with the then Faculties of Education and Business Economics.<\/p>\n<p>In 1996 E.C.\u00a0 Continuing &amp; Summer Postgraduate Program was opened .From the period1996 to 1999, it was the period\u00a0\u00a0 that faculty of continuing and distance education established.<\/p>\n<p>Distance education centres were Dire Dawa city council and Harari regions, and solmali reginal state. These centres\u00a0 \u00a0were:-<\/p>\n<p>Harar, Dire Dawa, Jigjiga, Godey, Kebridahar, Shinile, Fike, Afdher, Degahabour, Warder and Liben.<\/p>\n\t<h3>\n\t\t\t\t\tVision\n\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t<br \/>\n\t<p>Under the umbrella of Haramaya University DCDE strives to be one of the leading continuing and distance education institutions with international reputation by the year 2025.<\/p>\n\t<h3>\n\t\t\t\t\tMission\n\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t<br \/>\n\t<p>The Mission of DCDE is to produce competent graduates in diverse fields of Study, undertake rigorous, problem solving and cutting edge researches, disseminate knowledge and technologies, and provide demand-driven and transformative community service.<\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n\t<h3>\n\t\t\t\t\tCore Values\n\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t<p>The DCDE is committed to the following core values:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Academic freedom<\/li>\n<li>Perseverance<\/li>\n<li>Good governance\u00b7<\/li>\n<li>Respect for diversity<\/li>\n<li>Professionalism<\/li>\n<li>Collaborative spirit<\/li>\n<li>Fostering creativity\/innovation<\/li>\n<li>Respect for Nature and Environment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background The DCDE, as one of academic units of Haramaya University, is organized to coordinate four education programs, namely Continuing, Distance, and Summer. Undergraduate Education Programs, and Continuing and Summer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"_edd_button_behavior":[],"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-426","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haramaya.edu.et\/dcde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haramaya.edu.et\/dcde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haramaya.edu.et\/dcde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haramaya.edu.et\/dcde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haramaya.edu.et\/dcde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.haramaya.edu.et\/dcde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1066,"href":"https:\/\/www.haramaya.edu.et\/dcde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/426\/revisions\/1066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haramaya.edu.et\/dcde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}