Anna varsity panel begins search for new vice-chancellor

Anna varsity panel begins search for new vice-chancellor

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Chennai:01.06.2021

After a delay of two months, Anna University vicechancellor search panel headed by Jawaharlal Nehru University vice-chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar on Monday invited applications for new V-C from distinguished academicians.

"The search panel invites applications for the post of vicechancellor of the university from distinguished academicians with high level of competence, integrity, moral and institutional commitment and possessing the educational and work experience notified by the Tamil Nadu government," the nodal officer to the committee said. As per the qualifications prescribed by the government, a candidate must have 20 years of experience in teaching and research in universities, PG colleges or research institutions. They should have a minimum 10-year experience as a professor in a university system.

Interested candidates can download the application form from www.annauniv.edu. The filled-in application should be sent to nodalofficer2021@annauniv.edu on or before June 30. The search committee needs to recommend a panel of three names to the governor for appointment of vice-chancellor within four months of its formation. Professors from the university urged the governor-chancellor to expedite the process of appointing a new vice-chancellor in view of the pandemic.

"It is very difficult to get the nod for each academic decision from the three member convener committee during the lockdown. The process of selecting new V-C should have been initiated much earlier so that new V-C could have taken charge immediately after the previous vice-chancellor M K Surappa completed his tenure on April11. Now, at least they should appoint the next vice-chancellor before the start of next academic year," a professor from the university said. The VC search panel has retired IAS officer Sheela Rani Chunkath (government nominee) and ex-VC of Madras University S P Thyagrajan (syndicate nominee) as other two members.