Haramaya  University (HU) is one of the oldest higher learning institutions in Ethiopia which has gone through more than six decades of gigantic transformations since its establishment as an Imperial Ethiopian College of Agricultural and Mechanical of Arts (IECAMA) in the early 1950s. The mission of HU is to produce competent graduates in diverse fields of study, undertake knowledge-generating, problem-solving and cutting-edge research, and provide demand-driven and transformative community engagement that will contribute to local, national, regional and global sustainable development.