Vidyapith looking for new VC

Vidyapith looking for new VC

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Ahmedabad:  04.10.2020

The World’s only university set up by Mahatma Gandhi is now in search for a new vice-chancellor with the term of the current vice-chancellor, Anamik Shah, coming to an end in December.

For the first time, the call for applications, for the coveted post, has most of qualifying conditions set, according to the University Grants Commission (UGC). A threemember search committee, which includes members like Arvind Desai and professor Indira Hirve has been appointed. The Vidyapith officials were tight-lipped about the chancellor Ela Bhatt’s recommendation for the third member of selection committee.

Shah may not get the third extension as per the UGC norms. Bapu was the first chancellor (kulpati) of the Vidyapith and he had held the office between 1920 and 1948.

This time because of the university has adopted UGC qualifying conditions, the race for the post will be narrower. The vice-chancellor should have both academic and administrative experience, should have been on the faculty or board of studies and should have been a member of an academic council or part of professional bodies.

“The candidate, according to the UGC criteria, should also be involved in academic action and research programmes, should have international academic exposure, should have publications in academic journals of international repute and authored books, and even published articles in popular magazines over the past five years, and should also have consulting experience apart from having read books on Gandhi,” says a senior official at the Gujarat Vidyapith.

A house within the premises of Gujarat Vidyapith