2 - Rethinking Leadership, Management and Career Advancement for 21st Century Deans in the Social Sciences and Humanities at Makerere University
Corresponding Author(s) : Elizabeth Kaase-Bwanga
Journal of Higher Education in Africa,
Vol. 12 No. 1 (2014): Journal of Higher Education in Africa: Special Issue on Higher Education Leadership and Management
Abstract
The study investigates Leadership, Management and Career Advancement for Female and Male Deans in Social Sciences and Humanities at Make- rere University. The objective is to investigate the gender dynamics of leadership and management in academic careers of deans in Humanities and the Social Sciences and its effect on institutional development. The study is qualitative and quantitative in design, combining both primary and secondary data generated using a questionnaire and face-to-face interviews. The findings indicate that women as well as men face similar challenges in deanship with varying degrees. Factors that motivate male and females into deanship are identified as well as how both male and female deans react to these challenges, and the proposed support for deans’ academic growth. This study provides options for university management on how best university governance and structures should enable the deans to discharge their academic mandates in the most efficient and effective way without compromising the deanship and academic growth of both genders. Overall, the study finds that although there are some significant efforts in place to mainstream gender in leadership and management among others, Make- rere University structures are still in favour of the male gender. There are supportive structures in deanship but no deliberate efforts are in place to encourage women in deanship. The deans know what it takes to advance academically although the environment does not seem to have changed so much to create a level ground for females to compete for leadership posi- tions – something that may negatively impact on institutional development and gender equity in particular. Makerere University needs to rethink its leadership and management strategy to integrate gender fully with a view to becoming more inclusive for institutional development.
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Association of African Universities, African Gender Institute,2005, Unpublished Report on Gendered Institutional Culture in Five African Universities, 17-20 May.
Association of Common Wealth Universities, 2000, Report of the Regional Workshop on Management in Women, Lokoja.
Assie-Lumumba, N., 1993, ‘Higher Education in Francophone Africa; Assessment of the Potential of Traditional Universities and Alternatives for Development’. AF- THR Technical Note 5, Human Resources Division, Washington, D.C.: World Bank. Assie-Lumumba, N., 1995, ‘Gender in Education in Africa: A New Agenda for Development’, Africa Notes, April.
Ayesha, M. Imam, Mama, Amina, and Sow, Faton, 1997, Engendering African Social Sciences, Dakar: CODESRIA Book Series.
Bloch, M. Beoecku-Betts, J. and Tabachnick, R., eds, 1998, Women and Education in Sub Saharan Africa: Power; Opportunities, and Constraints, Boulder and London: LyneRienner Publishers.
Burting, I., 1994, Legacy of Inequality; Higher Education in South Africa, Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press.
Chagonda, T. and Gore, A.,2000,’Issues of Masculinity among University of Zimbabwe Students’ in Mate, R., ed. Report of the Regional Conference on Gender Equity, Democracy and Human Rights in Institutions of Higher Education on Southern Africa, available for Gender Studies Association,University of Zimbabwe) con- ference on Gender equity, Democracy and Human rights, University of Zimbabwe.
Chivaura, L.,2000,’Affirmative Action at the University of Zimbabwe’, Paper presented at the Conference on Gender Equity, Democracy, and Human Rights, University of Zimbabwe, July.
Kabonesa, Consolata, n.d., ‘Feminist Scholarship and Academic Freedom: A Case of Makerere University’, A paper presented at IAFFE 18th Annual Conference on ‘En- gendering Economic Policy’,26-28June, 2009 at Simmons College, Boston, USA.
Mama, A. and Barnes, Teresa, 2002.’Editorial’, Feminist Africa.
Mama, A., 2003, ‘Restore, Reform, But Do not Transform the Gender Politics of Higher Education in Africa,. Journal of Higher Education in Africa 1(1).
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