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Habib to return to work after being cleared in n-word probe Share Johannesburg - Adam Habib, the newly appointed director of the School of Oriental and African Studies or SOAS University of London, has been cleared of racism over the use of the n-word during a meeting with students in March, but investigators recommended several corrective steps to be taken in the aftermath of the incident. The SOAS board of trustees met on May 4 and have accepted in full the recommendations of an independent external investigation into the meeting of March 11 and events since. While the report was critical o...

New SOAS director may return to work after n-word probe Adam Habib, the newly appointed director of the School of Oriental and African Studies or SOAS University of London, has been cleared of racism over the use of the n-word during a meeting with students in March, but investigators recommended several corrective steps to be taken in the aftermath of the incident. The SOAS board of trustees met on 4 May and have accepted in full the recommendations of an independent external investigation into the meeting of 11 March and events since. While the report was critical of Habib’s response to s...

Contemporary Campus Life: Transformation, Manic Managerialism and Academentia is being launched. Contemporary Campus Life’s analysis of managerialism as a cause of academentia is framed by exigencies imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic. My argument is that the virus has brought about an ecological correction that affects all human and animal kinds, one that management (as distinct from management theory) can learn from. My satirical critique of market-driven neoliberalism as applied to institutions is offered as a metaphor to analyse the excesses, contradictions and obstructions in contemporar...

In less than two weeks, the GoFundMe page for the children of two GSM employees killed in the York County, South Carolina, shooting has hit $346,982.  GSM Services created the page for the children of James Lewis and Robert Shook, who were working at the home of Dr. Robert Lesslie and his wife Barbara when the April 7 shooting took place. All four of them died in addition to two of the Lesslies' grandchildren, 9-year-old Adah and 5-year-old Noah. Lewis' mother, Linda Tucker, feels blessed by all of the well-wishes and prayers from the community. "GSM has done nothing but bend over backward�...

Academic and commentator Professor Jonathan Jansen once called for a “political settlement” between the leadership of the country, university leaders and student bodies so that we “don’t burn the house we live in”. That was about four years ago as the fires that were lit during the Fallist rebellions continued to rage on South African campuses. Although no longer at the scale of the #FeesMustFall period – when nearly a year of learning was lost – universities were still facing huge disruptions in 2018, and continue to do so today. There’s more to this story ...