The Interim Governing Council led by Prof. Kwesi Yankah on 4th May 2023 appointed Prof. Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo as the substantive Vice-Chancellor of the University of Media, Arts and Communication (UniMAC) with effect from 1st May, 2023.
This comes after his appointment as the acting vice-chancellor by the council from 1st December and was supposed to have expired on 31st July, 2023. Prof. Kwansah-Aidoo worked as Rector of the Ghana Institute of Journalism for a period of four years from the 1st of August 2018 to 31st July 2022.
Getting close to the expiration date of his appointment in July 2022, Prof. Kwansah-Aidoo petitioned for an ample time and was granted an extra year. His new appointment begins effectively from 1st May 2023 until 31st July, 2024.
Prof. Kwansah-Aidoo will serve five months extra as a vice-chancellor after he turns 60 years due to the fact that, his statutory retirement will be in February 2024 meanwhile sources close to the school has confirmed that it is a defensible act as part of practices by the Higher Education Institution since it permits leaders to end the academic year before retirement.
The council and the entire student body are relying on Prof. Kwansah-Aidoo to execute his work professionally and alongside, make the university a conducive place of study before the expiration of his long service as Rector from 2018 to Vice Chancellor until 2024.
The University of Media, Arts and Communication (UniMAC) is a merger of three public institutions, namely the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ), the Ghana Institute of Languages (GIL), and the National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI) by an act of parliament, Act 2020 (Act 1059).
