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Rhodes University 2010 Graduation Ceremonies Address

- Badat, Saleem

Authors: Badat, Saleem
Date: 2010
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: vital:7586 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006577
Description: From introduction: Most of you who are graduating were born in the late 1980s, a period of great turbulence and social conflict. This was, however, also a time of great optimism for it was clear that apartheid tyranny could no longer continue and had to give way to a new social order. We must take immense pride in the imagination, creativity, ingenuity and courage that we displayed as a people to rid ourselves of tyranny and to fashion our democracy. You are a generation that has been, thankfully, largely spared the horrors, brutality and injustices of apartheid. You are the first generation with the opportunity of living in a society founded on a democratic Constitution that proclaims the commitment to human dignity, the achievement of equality, and the advancement of non-sexism and non-racialism and the human rights and freedoms that are contained in our Bill of Rights.
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Date Issued: 2010

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Inauguration of Steve Bantu Biko Building

- Badat, Saleem

Authors: Badat, Saleem
Date: 2008
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: vital:7583 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006572
Description: From introduction: Institutional loyalty, especially in the case of a university, does not mean being uncritical and denying historical truths. The inauguration of the Stephen Bantu Biko Building is, therefore, a good occasion for “a critical appreciation of where we” as Rhodes University “come from”. Credit is due to the pioneers who 104 years ago created Rhodes; to those who, under difficult and financially trying conditions, steered its subsequent development; to those who oversaw its maturation from a University College under the auspices of the University of South Africa to a fully-fledged University in 1951, and to the subsequent generations that energetically toiled to produce the Rhodes University of today’s enviable reputation.
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Date Issued: 2008

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The role of higher education in society: valuing higher education

- Badat, Saleem

Authors: Badat, Saleem
Date: 2009
Language: English
Type: Conference paper , text
Identifier: vital:7122 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006571
Description: From the introduction: Arthur E. Levine, President of the Teachers College of Columbia University, writes that "In the early years of the Industrial Revolution, the Yale Report of 1828 asked whether the needs of a changing society required either major or minor changes in higher education. The report concluded that it had asked the wrong question. The right question was, What is the purpose of higher education?" Levine goes on to add that questions related to higher education “have their deepest roots in that fundamental question” and that “faced with a society in motion, we must not only ask that question again, but must actively pursue answers, if our colleges and universities are to retain their vitality in a dramatically different world”. I propose to speak about three issues: the first is about our changing world; the second is about the three purposes of higher education; the third is about what I consider to be the five key roles of higher education. Finally, I want to conclude by making some observations on the sometimes unrealistic expectations of higher education. , HERS‐SA Academy 2009, University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business, Waterfront, Cape Town, 14 September 2009. Stagnant universities are expensive and ineffectual monuments to a status quo which is more likely to be a status quo ante, yesterday’s world preserved in aspic (Ralf Dahrendorf, 2000:106‐7)
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Date Issued: 2009

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Remembering Jakes - Chancellor, our chancellor

- Badat, Saleem

Authors: Badat, Saleem
Date: 2012
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: vital:7584 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006574
Description: From introduction: Gerwel was an exceptional, courageous, gifted and pioneering South African intellectual, scholar, leader and citizen. He had a profound commitment to creating a just and humane society. Through a long and distinguished association with the higher education sector, as an academic, dean, vice-chancellor, chairperson of the Committee of University Principals in the early 1990s, chancellor, and chairperson of the Mandela Rhodes Foundation, Gerwel was an outstanding champion of higher education. As chancellor, he challenged Rhodes to become socially conscious and think critically and imaginatively about access, equity and transformation, and about its role in socioeconomic development issues in South Africa, especially in the Eastern Cape.
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Date Issued: 2012

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The trajectory, dynamics, determinants and nature of institutional change in post-1994 South African higher education

- Badat, Saleem

Authors: Badat, Saleem
Date: 2008
Language: English
Type: Conference paper , text
Identifier: vital:7120 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006568
Description: Introduction: The institutional change agenda in post-1994 South African higher education has been extensive in its objects, ambitious in its goals, and far-reaching in nature. Given its scope, it is not possible here to critically analyse change in all its dimensions or in all arenas. Instead, this paper confines itself to analysing the trajectory, dynamics, outcomes and determinants of institutional change in South African higher education since 1994, and concludes with observations on the nature of change. , Higher Education Close Up 4 : University of Cape Town, Breakwater Conference Centre, 26-28 June 2008
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Date Issued: 2008

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VC’s tapestry unveiling address

- Badat, Saleem

Authors: Badat, Saleem
Date: 2011
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: vital:7589 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006580
Description: From introduction: This afternoon we publicly launch an exquisite tapestry commissioned from the Keiskamma Arts Project based in Hamburg on the coast. It is intended to express the social purposes that are the rationale for our existence; the geography and environment of Rhodes University; the economic, political, historical and social forces that have shaped it over 107 years and the complexity, antinomies, paradoxes and ambiguities of Rhodes’ history. It is also intended to express our origins, where we have come from the road we have travelled and where we are today; the continuities and discontinuities that characterise Rhodes; the inexcusable and shameful actions of our past in which we can take no pride, as well as the courageous actions, successes and achievements in which we can take pride, and that we can and must celebrate. The launch of the tapestry is an important moment in our continuing journey as Rhodes University of critical reflection, ‘critical appreciation of where we come from,’ and ‘dialogical and analytic engagement with where we are now’ and where we seek to be in future. I have indicated that the launch of the tapestry is a moment in our continuing journey – a journey of the remaking, renewal, modernisation, transformation and further development of Rhodes University.
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Date Issued: 2011

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