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Free space in the academy

- Janz, Bruce B

  • Authors: Janz, Bruce B
  • Date: 2015
  • Subjects: Academic Freedom -- South Africa Universities and colleges -- South Africa Equality Liberty Education and state -- South Africa Education, Higher -- South Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/848 , vital:19996
  • Description: “Academic freedom” does not mean the same thing to everyone. There are, to be sure, a few who argue against it. Sandra Korn, in the Harvard Crimson last year, argued that we should abandon academic freedom in favor of academic justice. She argues that we have reached a consensus on issues such as racism, classism and sexism, and so to promote racist or classist or sexist views under the guise of “academic freedom” is to ignore a higher standard and more importantly to ignore the fact that academic freedom is always couched in political realities, and is never the dispassionate exercise of reason and the pursuit of knowledge. It always serves an agenda, and so if that is the case, it should serve the agenda of justice, particularly justice for disadvantaged and marginalized people. Her online article, when I last looked, had almost 1300 comments, and had inspired commentary from a number of other publications. You can imagine the range of these comments and reactions: everything from “this is long overdue” to the newest favorite insult circulating the internet, “she’s just another Social Justice Warrior (SJW).”
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  • Date Issued: 2015

Program management : Rhodes University experience

- Vanda, Pelisa

  • Authors: Vanda, Pelisa
  • Date: 2014
  • Language: English
  • Type: Conference paper
  • Identifier: vital:6982 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1020652
  • Description: Program Management Module was implemented after a year that Sierra was introduced in the SEALS libraries. Rhodes University had no online system for booking group study rooms. Students were queuing early in the morning outside the library so that they can sign up on a paper form for room booking. Aspects of implementation were discussed including the creation of user guidelines, training of library staff, and publicity for the booking system. Procedures were developed and made available on RUConnected and on the library webpage. , Paper delivered at the IUG-SA Conference, 19-21 November 2014.
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  • Date Issued: 2014

Disgraceland: history and the humanities in frontier country

- Cornwell, Gareth D N

  • Authors: Cornwell, Gareth D N
  • Date: 2003
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: vital:6117 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004618
  • Description: This paper explores the significance of Coetzee's choice of Salem in the Eastern Cape as the (part) setting for his novel Disgrace. A determinedly local and historical reading of the text suggests that Lucy's conduct represents an "ideal" solution to the historical issues of wrong and reparation raised in the novel. This finding is scrutinized through a reading of "The Humanities in Africa" from Elizabeth Costello, and it is concluded that whatever hope for rehabilitation or redemption the novel holds out for white South Africans necessarily exists beyond the discourse of the humanities, indeed, outside of history itself.
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  • Date Issued: 2003

Rhodes University Annual Report 1990

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