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Stella Aurorae. Volume 2, The University of Natal (1949-1976) : the history of a South African university / Bill Guest.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Guest, Bill, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natal University College.
- Universities and colleges--South Africa--History.
- Universities and colleges.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (494 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Pietermaritzburg : Occasional Publications of the Natal Society Foundation, 2017.
- Summary:
- This is the second of a three-volume history by Bill Guest of a major South African university founded as the Natal University College in Pietermaritzburg in 1909. Despite trying conditions, including two world wars, the university expanded, developed a second campus (Howard College) in Durban and became the University of Natal in 1949.The first volume covered the history of Natal University College from 1909 to 1949. This volume covers the years 1949 to 1976 during which the university continued to develop as a dual-centred institution while struggling to maintain its autonomy. This included control of a new third campus, a blacks-only medical school, in the face of interference from the apartheid government. The administrative centre of gravity shifted inexorably towards Durban as student enrolments and course options increased in the larger city. In addition to other sources the author draws extensively on the university archives of publications, reports, documents, reminiscences and minutes of meetings, recalling both the serious as well as the lighter side of campus life.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- AUTHOR'S NOTE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- LIST OF FIGURES
- FOREWORD
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- PART ONE: 1949-1960
- 1. DUALISM AND DEVELOPMENT
- The institution re-constituted
- Finance
- Central administration
- Buildings and extensions
- Library
- ENDNOTES
- 2. STAFFING AND TEACHING
- Conditions of service
- Academic staffing
- Science
- Agriculture
- Engineering and Architecture
- Medical School/Faculty of Medicine
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- 3. RESEARCH AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
- Funding and research promotion
- Community service
- 4. STUDENT LIFE
- Registrations
- Scholarships, successes and failures
- Residences
- Academic activity
- Cultural activity
- Social activity
- Sporting activity
- Political and social awareness
- 5. SEGREGATION AND CELEBRATION
- The Extension of University Education Act, 1959
- The Non-European Section
- Jubilee celebrations
- PART TWO: 1961-1976
- 6. THE END OF AN ERA
- Campus development
- The Malherbe era: an assessment
- 7. STAFFING AND TEACHING
- Academic staffing and devolution
- Staff associations and political dissent
- Medicine
- Endnotes
- 8. RESEARCH AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
- 9. STUDENT LIFE
- Scholarships, bursaries and failures
- Student advisory and medical services.
- Residences
- Student discipline and representation
- 10. TURBULENT TIMES
- The principalship: O.P.F. Horwood
- Public Relations Office
- Central Administration
- The principalship: F.E. Stock
- The University of Natal in 1976
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- GENERAL INDEX
- Back cover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on print record.
- ISBN:
- 9781991225665
- 1991225660
- OCLC:
- 1291309659
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