The Importance of Student’s Representation in the Governance Structure of Historically Black Universities in South Africa
This paper was developed from a study that looked at the role of the university council in bringing about effective governance in a South African historically black university. Institutional governance is concerned with notion of power and how it is managed to bring about desired objectives. As s...
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| Language: | English |
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ORDT: Organization for Research Development and Training
2019-05-01
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| Series: | Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences |
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| Online Access: | https://journalofinterdisciplinarysciences.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/6.-The-importance-of-student%E2%80%99s-representation-in-the-governance-structure-of-historically-black-universities-.pdf |
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| Summary: | This paper was developed from a study that looked at the role of the university council in
bringing about effective governance in a South African historically black university. Institutional
governance is concerned with notion of power and how it is managed to bring about desired
objectives. As such perceptions are fundamental to this process. In the post-1994 transformation of the
South African higher education system, university governing bodies were put in charge of the
transformation of the universities under their leadership. Through the State policy of cooperative
governance, the State demanded that university councils create governance structures and systems
where different institutional stakeholders are to participate in the university governance process to
achieve the goals of university transformation. However, the processes of implementation were
challenged by stakeholder contestations around issues of contextual interpretation. Since 1994 several
stakeholder groups have always been on strikes and protests over unfulfilled expectations and
unresolved historical imbalances. This paper examines how student issues are being handled through
university students’ vivid representation in the internal governance structures and, also, how such
representation could bring about effective governance across historically black universities in South
Africa. This paper argues that proper handling of university student issues is significant for the
university transformation, especially as regards historically black universities in South Africa. The
paper ends with a re-imagination of stakeholders’ representation in the different internal governance
structures of historically black universities in South Africa for further research.
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| ISSN: | 2594-3405 |