Professor Mawutor takes workplace as Vice-Chancellor of UPSA
Professor John Kwaku Mensah Mawutor was on Friday sworn-in for a four-year tenure because the third Vice-Chancellor (VC) of the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA).
He takes over from Prof Abednego Feehi Okoe Amartey, who has accomplished his two four-year tenures of Office.
The swearing-in was completed on behalf of the President of the Republic of Ghana by Reverend John Ntim Fordjour, a Deputy Minister of Education.
After the swearing-in, Rev Fordjour along with Dr Kofi Ohene-Konadu, Chairperson, UPSA Governing Board and Prof Amartey, robbed Prof Mawutor in his official tutorial robe.
Prof Mawutor, who beforehand served because the Pro-Vice Chancellor of the UPSA, is a Professor of Finance and a Chartered Accountant, with membership within the Institute of Chartered Accountants.
He is an skilled skilled and tutorial and involves this position with greater than 20 years of expertise in academia and trade.
Prof Mawutor has held varied positions at UPSA, serving in more and more accountable roles culminating at govt degree roles.
He has served as Programme Coordinator of assorted tutorial programmes, Vice-Dean and in 2016, he was appointed as Dean of the School of Graduate Studies, a place he held till 2022.
As Dean, he’s credited with the exponential progress of UPSA’s graduate programmes each in pupil inhabitants and programme choices.
Prof Mawutor started his profession within the greater schooling sector as a lecturer at UPSA in 2008.
Since then, he has risen by way of the ranks, serving as programme coordinator of a number of graduate faculty programmes.
He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2014 and have become Associate Professor in 2021.
He has additionally served as Vice-Dean of the School of Graduate School.
He has served on a number of nationwide committees and boards, such because the Coastal Development Authority and the Abokobi Area Rural Bank, the place he served as Vice-Chairman and on the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund).
Prof Mawutor is an Elder of The Church of Pentecost, Kokomlemle District, and he’s married to Deaconess Dr Thelma Frimpong-Mensah, knowledgeable with Deloitte Ghana, and to collectively, they’ve 4 kids: Eyram, Lom, Kafui and Mawuena.
In his inaugural handle, Prof Mawutor expressed gratitude to the Almighty God for the way far he had introduced him.
He famous that he was extraordinarily honored to have been a part of the good University (UPSA), whose legacy of scholarship with professionalism, excellence, innovation, and neighborhood affect resonates far past its partitions.
He lauded the position of his predecessors, specifically Prof Amartey and Prof Joshua Alabi, the First VC of the UPSA, for his or her pioneering roles in constructing the University.
“In my humble journey for the past 22 years as a student and a faculty member, I have been inspired by the groundbreaking transformative leadership of my predecessors whose sacrifice, commitment, resilience to unchanging obstacles has brought us this far,” Prof Mawutor stated.
“….I see my role as a steward of your collective aspirations. My leadership will be grounded on God Almighty and I stand here to pledge that there will be no middle grounds.”
Prof Mawutor pledged to pursue 5 thematic aspirations for the development of the UPSA; similar to leveraging on info expertise (IT).
He stated over the previous few years, the administration of UPSA had taken important steps in the direction of the transformation of conventional educating and studying programs to digitalize its core tutorial and administrative programs, thus making it a user-friendly digital system to leverage on these achievements.
He stated his strategic give attention to IT was to allow college students to study in a conducive atmosphere and improve the UPSA Learning Management System.
Prof Mawutor additional pledged to construct strategic partnerships, making the UPSA a one-stop store for skilled programmes and in addition to develop a complete advertising technique and to advertise skilled programmes and appeal to potential college students.
The VC pledged to pursue the promotion of interdisciplinary analysis and to advertise analysis by way of the institution of college journals.
Prof Mawutor stated as a college, the promotion of entrepreneurship and innovation amongst college students earlier than commencement was essential for fostering financial progress.
He stated to deal with this, UPSA had already established a Center for Entrepreneurial Development for Students; saying “given this opportunity to serve this University in my capacity as the Vice-Chancellor, I will enhance the existing Centre by introducing some innovative measures”.
The VC additional pledged to uphold, defend, and improve the tradition and model of UPSA.
Dr Kofi Ohene-Konadu, Chairperson, UPSA Governing Council, urged all stakeholders to rally behind Prof Mawutor to realize his targets for the University.
The programme was graced by Apostle Eric Nyamekye, the Chairperson of The Church of Pentecost.
Source: GNA
