Governing and Managing Ghana's Universities for Sustainability (Sustainable Development Goals Series)

This book examines the governance and management frameworks of public and private universities in Ghana and how they have succeeded in not only addressing their problems but also how they will be able to sustain the institutions in a new age or context.In other words, it investigates what Ghana’s universities have done or are doing to become sustainable.Specifically, it discusses how the post-1990 governance and management structures have succeeded in curing the ills for which they were designed and whether the new models have led to the sustainability of the institutions going forward.By focusing on the examination of the management and governance frameworks, the book deepens an understanding of how this has supported the universities to pursue their mandates and sustain them in Ghana. The book addresses the following three questions: 1) What have Ghana’s universities done or are doing to become sustainable? 2) How have the governance and management architectures contributed to the su