{"id":360032,"date":"2025-07-02T17:58:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=360032"},"modified":"2025-07-02T17:58:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:58:33","slug":"universities-must-confront-global-shifts-with-unity-mahfouz-adedimeji-ase-vc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2025\/07\/02\/universities-must-confront-global-shifts-with-unity-mahfouz-adedimeji-ase-vc\/","title":{"rendered":"Universities must confront global shifts with unity \u2014 Mahfouz Adedimeji, ASE VC"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li class=\"ai-optimize-6 ai-optimize-introduction\"><strong>Adedimeji said global issues like inequality and ecological crises require joint university efforts, not isolated institutional actions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"ai-optimize-7\"><strong>He warned that the current silo approach undermines higher education\u2019s capacity to drive meaningful national and global change.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-23\">The vice-chancellor of the African School of Economics, Professor Mahfouz Adedimeji, has urged Nigerian universities to abandon isolationism and embrace strategic partnerships to confront the world\u2019s biggest challenges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-8\">Adedimeji gave the charge on Wednesday while delivering his speech titled \u201cIdeas Rule the World\u201d during the fourth public lecture of the African School of Economics in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-9\">He said collaboration among institutions is no longer optional if universities must remain relevant and responsive to global realities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-10\">Quoting a study by the University of Lincoln, Adedimeji outlined 10 urgent global concerns, including changing economic powers, loss of foresight, and technological disruption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-11\">He said other pressing issues include migration and the so-called \u201cJapa syndrome\u201d, conflict and war, civic disaffection, growing inequality, and ecological collapse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-12\">He added that universities must urgently interrogate questions of identity and shifting societal values to stay ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-13\">\u201cThese challenges are not just academic topics \u2014 they are real and immediate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-14\">Adedimeji stressed that the challenges are interconnected and require institutions to respond collectively, not in silos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-15\">He warned that a fragmented system would only weaken universities\u2019 ability to drive sustainable change in Nigeria and across the continent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-16\">Using the metaphor of an eagle cracking open a tortoise by dropping it from the sky, he said institutions must see problems as springboards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-17\">\u201cAn obstacle,\u201d he said, \u201cis converted by an eagle into an opportunity to deploy its full strength and soar even higher.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-18\">He noted, however, that unlike the eagle, universities must not attempt to fly solo in solving complex societal problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-19\">\u201cI, therefore, call for concerted efforts of the Triple Helix \u2014 the government, academia, and industry\/society \u2014 to accord the university its pride of place by doing what is right at the right time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-20\">\u201cIt is said that one can travel fast alone, but only far together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-21\">Adedimeji also urged universities to stop competing for visibility at the expense of real impact, warning that the current model of fragmentation is counterproductive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-22\">He concluded by calling on higher institutions to treat collaboration not as a buzzword but as an institutional ethos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adedimeji said global issues like inequality and ecological crises require joint university efforts, not isolated institutional actions. 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