Getting Our Universities Back on Track: Reflections and Governance Paradigms from My Vice-Chancellorship by Femi Mimiko

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Getting Our Universities Back on Track is a broad narrative on the state of higher education in
Nigeria, undertaken within the context of the author’s experience as Vice Chancellor at Adekunle
Ajasin University (AAUA), a public university in the country, from 2010 to 2015. The process by
which the author negotiated the challenges presented by AAUA in those years are carefully
unveiled in a manner that speaks to the emergence of new paradigms for university governance,
predicated upon an untrammelled commitment to meritocracy. It is a narrative on the success
story of modernization of a public university operating in a particularly difficult policy and politics
terrain. It equates a practice manual for university governance in Nigeria, and arguably beyond.

Femi Mimiko, mni, is a Professor of Political Science at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU),
Nigeria. He was SSRC-MacArthur Foundation Visiting Scholar, Watson Institute, Brown University,
Providence, RI; Korean Foundation Visiting Fellow, The Academy of Korean Studies, Seoul; and
Senior Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor, United States Military Academy (USMA), West
Point, NY. He is a recipient of USMA Army Commander’s Public Service Award, 2004; and author
of Globalization: The Politics of Global Economic Relations and International Business. Mimiko was
Vice Chancellor, Adekunle Ajasin University, Nigeria, 2010 to 2015; and member, the National
Institute, Kuru, Nigeria. In 2016, he had a stint as African and African-American Studies Associate,
at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

ISBN: 978-1-943533-09-1 Ι Published 2017, Paperback | Pan-African University Press