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Satishree Pandit said that throughout the year, some students have been accused of making anti-India statements and being involved in communal riots (file photo)
Shantisree, who completed one year as the Vice-Chancellor of JNU, on Tuesday said that the Jawaharlal Nehru University is back to academic innovation and research excellence.
JNU’s image as an “anti-national university” has changed in the last one year as the university’s community has shown that it is a “nationalist, creative and inclusive” institution, Vice-Chancellor Santashree D Pandit said on Tuesday.
He said that throughout the year, some students were accused of making anti-India statements and involvement in communal riots and the university was labeled as “anti-national”.
But, now the Jawaharlal Nehru University is back to academic innovation and research excellence, said Shantisree, who completed one year as JNU VC on Tuesday.
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“The image of the university as an anti-national institution has changed. This year, the JNU community has shown that it is nationalistic, creative and inclusive. Academic leadership matters to my team and faculty.
Shantisree described her journey so far as the first woman vice-chancellor as “very satisfying”.
In 2016, three JNU students were arrested on charges of sedition. Later, several others, including JNU students Sharjeel Imam and Umar Khalid, were booked under anti-terror law Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and provisions of the Indian Penal Code for allegedly “masterminding” the February 2020 riots. was recorded. in North-East Delhi.
Listing his work in the last one year, the VC said that Diversity has influenced 32 recruitments and 44 overdue promotions.
He said that the number of women chairpersons and deans has increased from 19 to 39.
When asked what challenges JNU is facing at the moment, Sansthanishree said that the university is struggling to synchronize the academic calendar which was disrupted due to Covid since the beginning of 2020; completion of PhD submissions delayed due to the pandemic; and modernization of campus infrastructure.
“We are also working towards expanding the implementation of NEP (New Education policy) 2020 through more MA programs in various schools, and increasing the university-corpus fund from ₹50 crore to ₹250 crore,” she said.
Born on 15 July 1962 in Leningrad, Russia, Shantisree was educated at Presidency College, Chennai, studied both BA and MA topper and gold medalist. He completed M.Phil and PhD in International Politics from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; Post-doctorate in Peace and Conflict Studies from Uppsala University, Sweden.
She was last year appointed as the first woman and alumni vice-chancellor of India’s top university.
He has published four books and edited two. Starting with Lecturer at the University of Goa in 1988 and joining the University of Pune in 1991, now Savitribai Phule Pune University, his teaching and research career spanned over three and a half decades.
She is also a member of several national academic and research bodies since 2015.
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