Managing Students' Unrest In Universities: Unmasking The Threat And Success Implication Through Ubuntu

Observations, practical experiences and literature confirmed that students’ oriented crisis, unrest and protest continue unabated in the university system. Despite so much concerted efforts by the universities, scholars and government to ameliorate this, it seems the university authorities are not cognisance of some threatening social and human factors that could enhance the management of the persistent student unrest. In order to respond to this, the study provided answer to the following question; how can the threat associated with management of student unrest in university system be unmasked to pave way for smooth university operation devoid of social unrest? The study was underpinned by Ubuntu and lensed by Transformative Paradigm (TP). Participatory Action research design was adopted with the use of Focused Group Discussion (FGD) as a method of data collection from 8 selected university stakeholders. Socio-thematic Analysis (StA) was used to analyse the data. The study found out that campus environmentalism and drug abuse were the major threats while the uninterrupted university productivity and students’ academic performance were found to be resultant effect of managing the threats. To this end, the study concluded that Ubuntu-like management style will enhance the management of threats hindering the university peace and tranquillity