- Title
- Welcome Address of the Vice‐Chancellor of Rhodes University, Dr Saleem Badat, to First‐Year students
- Creator
- Badat, Saleem
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- vital:7592
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006583
- Description
- From introduction: Our first purpose is to produce knowledge, so that we can better understand our natural and social worlds and also enrich our scientific and cultural heritage. The second purpose of a university is to disseminate knowledge and to develop critical and creative minds. Our goals, yours and ours, must be for you to think imaginatively, ‘effectively and critically;’ to ‘achieve depth in some field of knowledge;’ to appreciate how we ‘gain knowledge and understanding of the universe, of society, and of ourselves;’ to have ‘a broad knowledge of other cultures and other times;’ to critique ideas and views and construct alternatives, and to communicate cogently, orally and in writing. Our final purpose as a university is to undertake community engagement, whether this is as part of academic courses or your voluntary participation in community projects organized by our Community Engagement Office.
- Format
- 12 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Rhodes University
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