Bulelwa Payi in Grahamstown
IT’S back to square one for Rhodes University in its search for a vice-chancellor. When the university council met on Thursday, it was to be asked to reconstitute the selection process for the vice- chancellor, said a source who asked not to be named.
A senate meeting held on Wednesday “unanimously” accepted a recommendation by the old selection committee to appoint a small representative commission to explore the composition of a new selection
The old selection committee dissolved at the weekend because it believed that the selection process had lost credibility and legitimacy among significant sectors of the interested community. It also believed that it was not in the interest of the university to pass any judgment on the suitability of the last remaining candidate, vice-principal Dr Michael Smout, at that
A source said on Thursday that the commission will consist of five people, one of whom would be an independent, non-voting chairman. The other four will represent the senate, the council, the Students’ Representative Council and the Grahamstown Transitional Local Council. — Ecna