帕特里克-阿乌阿 教育企业家

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Patrick Awuah
Education Entrepreneur | Class of 2015
Creating a new model for higher education in Africa that combines training in ethical leadership, a liberal arts tradition, and skills for contemporary African needs and opportunities.


Portrait of Patrick Awuah

Title
Education Entrepreneur
Affiliation
Ashesi University College
Location
Accra, Ghana
Age
50 at time of award
Area of Focus
Education and Training
Website
Ashesi University
Social
Twitter
Published September 29, 2015
ABOUT PATRICK'S WORK
Patrick Awuah is an educator and entrepreneur building a new model for higher education in Ghana. Ashesi University, which Awuah founded in 2002, is a four-year private institution that offers a core curriculum grounded in liberal arts, ethical principles, and skills for contemporary African needs and opportunities. Awuah, a native of Ghana, was educated at American universities and began a successful career as a Microsoft engineer, but a vision for better higher education in Ghana drew him home. He saw a stark contrast between his college experience, which stressed critical thinking and problem solving, and the rote learning common in Ghana’s educational system. He was also convinced that a focus on ethical leadership in the next generation of Ghana’s leaders was the best means for combating pervasive corruption.

Students at Ashesi choose among degree programs in business management, computer science, management information systems, and engineering. All students participate in a four-year leadership seminar on ethics, collaboration, and entrepreneurship that concludes with a service-learning component. Fostering ethical leadership is central to the university’s ethos, and in 2008, students established an honor code holding themselves responsible for ethical behavior, the first of its kind in African universities. In addition, Awuah places an emphasis on ethnic, economic, and gender diversity in the Ashesi community, and the recently opened school of engineering will focus on gender parity in its admissions.

In a little over a decade, Ashesi is already firmly established as one of Ghana’s premier universities. Every one of its graduates has found quality employment, and almost all remain in Africa, where many have started much-needed information technology businesses. Awuah’s innovation in higher education is not only empowering individual students; it also has the potential to transform political and civil society in Ghana and other African nations by developing a new generation of leaders and entrepreneurs.

BIOGRAPHY
Patrick Awuah received B.S. and B.A. degrees (1989) from Swarthmore College and an M.B.A. (1999) from the University of California at Berkeley. He was an engineer and program manager at Microsoft (1989­–1997) prior to founding Ashesi University in 2002 in Accra, Ghana. In addition to serving as president of Ashesi, he is also a fellow of the African Leadership Initiative of the Aspen Global Leadership Network and a member of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations.



帕特里克-阿乌阿
教育企业家|2015级
在非洲创建一个新的高等教育模式，将道德领导力培训、文科传统和当代非洲需求和机会的技能结合起来。


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标题
教育企业家
工作单位
阿希斯大学学院
工作地点
阿克拉，加纳
年龄
获奖时为50岁
重点领域
教育和培训
网站
阿希斯大学
社会
推特
发表于2015年9月29日
关于帕特里克的工作
帕特里克-阿武阿是一位教育家和企业家，在加纳建立了一个新的高等教育模式。阿瓦于2002年创办的阿什西大学是一所四年制私立院校，提供以文科、道德原则和技能为基础的核心课程，以满足当代非洲的需求和机会。阿武阿是加纳人，曾在美国大学接受教育，并作为微软工程师开始了成功的职业生涯，但在加纳接受更好的高等教育的愿景吸引了他回家。他看到他的大学经历与加纳教育系统中常见的死记硬背形成了鲜明的对比，后者强调批判性思维和解决问题。他还相信，关注加纳下一代领导人的道德领导力是打击普遍腐败的最佳手段。

阿什西的学生可以选择商业管理、计算机科学、管理信息系统和工程等学位课程。所有学生都参加为期四年的领导力研讨会，内容涉及道德、协作和创业，最后还有一个服务学习的部分。培养道德领导力是大学精神的核心，2008年，学生们制定了一个荣誉守则，要求自己对道德行为负责，这在非洲大学中是第一个。此外，阿瓦重视阿西社区的种族、经济和性别多样性，最近成立的工程学院将在招生中注重性别平等。

在十年多一点的时间里，阿什西已经牢固地成为加纳最重要的大学之一。它的每一个毕业生都找到了高质量的工作，而且几乎都留在了非洲，许多人在那里创办了亟需的信息技术企业。阿武赫在高等教育方面的创新不仅增强了学生个人的能力；它还通过培养新一代的领导人和企业家，有可能改变加纳和其他非洲国家的政治和公民社会。

个人简历
帕特里克-阿武阿在斯沃斯莫尔学院获得理学士和文学士学位（1989年），在加州大学伯克利分校获得工商管理硕士学位（1999年）。在2002年于加纳阿克拉创建阿什西大学之前，他曾在微软担任工程师和项目经理（1989-1997）。除了担任阿什西大学的校长外，他还是阿斯彭全球领导力网络非洲领导力倡议的研究员和美国对外关系委员会的成员。