Jonathan Jansen steps down as UFS rector

[OrbitalDawn]

Prof Jonathan Jansen will step down as Vice Chancellor and Rector of the University of the Free State at the end of August, the institution confirmed on Monday.

He will take up an invitation as a Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Behavioural Sciences at the US’s Stanford University in September 2016, Judge Ian van der Merwe, the chairperson of the UFS council said in a statement.

“The fellowship, which was awarded to him earlier this year, is an opportunity for him to further advance his career as an internationally renowned academic in education,” the statement said.

Van der Merwe said Jansen’s departure was a great loss for the university.

Jansen’s move comes a few months after UFS student protesters called for him to step down.

In an exclusive interview with News24 in April, Jansen denied rumours that he was stepping down.

"I am not going anywhere. These speculations about me leaving have gone on forever. I receive e-mails every day asking me if I am leaving,” he said.

He was appointed rector and vice chancellor in July 2009.

Source:

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/jonathan-jansen-steps-down-as-ufs-rector-20160516

 

[konfab]

Mabel Jansen called:twisted:

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Can't blame him. Stanford > UFS.

 

[freddster]

Another liberal retard doing the Chickenrun

 

[TheMightyQuin]

Wish we could make him Minister of Education

 

[Vox Populi Vox Dei]

Who can blame him?

Going to Stanford means he won't have to deal with lunatics trying to bomb his office....

 

[DA-LION-619]

Another liberal retard doing the Chickenrun

Someone is jelly

 

[Ninja'd]

Another liberal retard doing the Chickenrun

Ooh, who is this new contender?

Oh wait, you're the guy who keeps saying the country is going down the drain and yet you're now blasting a man who is getting out?

 

[freddster]

Ooh, who is this new contender?

Oh wait, you're the guy who keeps saying the country is going down the drain and yet you're now blasting a man who is getting out?

He's one of those who "has hope for the country" Theres a difference when ordinary people who knows this is a stuff up goes overseas(if they can afford it) and when someone boasts there is hope, and its not too bad packs up and run.

 

[HBee]

UFS has lost big time.

 

[Voicy]

I have a lot of time for Prof Jansen.

I think he's realising that all of the logic he's trying to convey is falling on deaf ears. I wish him all the best in the US.

 

[DA-LION-619]

He's one of those who "has hope for the country" Theres a difference when ordinary people who knows this is a stuff up goes overseas(if they can afford it) and when someone boasts there is hope, and its not too bad packs up and run.

So nothing to do with Stanford lol

 

[AfricanTech]

Kinda sad.

He wasn't scared to call out bad behavior.

 

[Acid0]

Now we can wait for the next candidate might it be on merit or political.
Then I give it two weeks and they will scream to take him/her away.

 

[R13...]

Now we can wait for the next candidate might it be on merit or political.
Then I give it two weeks and they will scream to take him/her away.

How'd we know if the replacement is selected on merit or is a political appointee?

 

[TheMightyQuin]

How'd we know if the replacement is selected on merit or is a political appointee?

When their academic qualifications are either from the University of Life, the School of Hard Knocks or the Kindergarten of Getting-the-Schit-Kicked-Out-Of-Me(source: Captain Blackadder),.....aka Fake, it probably may be a political employee.

 

[Nick333]

Hope he remembers to turn the lights out as he leaves.

 

[dlk001]

How'd we know if the replacement is selected on merit or is a political appointee?

In fact, how many Vice Chancellors are political appointees?

 

[grok]

Amasa Leland Stanford[1] (March 9, 1824 – June 21, 1893) was an American tycoon, industrialist, politician, and a co-founder (with his wife, Jane) of Stanford University. Migrating to California from New York at the time of the Gold Rush, he became a successful merchant and wholesaler, and continued to build his business empire. He served one two-year term as governor of California after his election in 1861, and later eight years as senator from the state. As president of Southern Pacific Railroad and, beginning in 1861, Central Pacific, he had tremendous power in the region and a lasting impact on California. He is widely considered a robber baron

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Leland Stanford was an active freemason from 1850 to 1855

wiki

Robber baron" is a derogatory metaphor of social criticism originally applied to certain late 19th-century American businessmen who used unscrupulous methods to get rich.

Oops..

Will the dear professor be happy to study at an institute started by such a questionable character, or will it be fair to expect that he will have a local chapter of Stanford Must Fall up & running within a reasonable time frame?

 

[R13...]

Oops..

Will the dear professor be happy to study at an institute started by such a questionable character, or will it be fair to expect that he will have a local chapter of Stanford Must Fall up & running within a reasonable time frame?

I'm sure there are other SAn students at Stanford why don't you ask them to start a must fall movement? Why would a fellow start a protest campaign in any case?