ISSUE 16 | APRIL 2016
NEW APPOINTMENT protesting over various grievances. “In my view the unprecedented protests of the past few months call on us as leadership and communities of not only the affected universities but of the country as a whole to listen and to engage effectively,” Prof Dube says. Prof Dube supports the principle of affordable access to education, “especially given our history as a country. There should be an opportunity to start addressing the least advantaged among us first.”
New head for SDS Professor Pamela Dube is UWC’s newly-appointed Deputy ViceChancellor for Student Development and Support (SDS). She joined the University in December 2015, replacing Prof Mokgadi Moletsane, who acted in the position after Prof Lullu Tshiwula retired at the end of 2014. Prof Dube exercises oversight over the Centre for Student Support Services, the Financial Aid Office, Residential Services, Sports Administration, Campus Health, the Office for Student Development and Student Governance, and works closely with the Student Representative Council and its structures. Prof Dube joined UWC at a time when the higher education sector faced immense challenges with student and staff
OBITUARIES The University of the Western Cape mourns the passing of alumni, students and staff, including:
High on her agenda for the SDS strategy of supporting a holistic, strength-based and enabling approach to the development and support of students, is the promotion of student engagement and collective efforts in addressing the challenges of financial need, accommodation, food security and study materials, which often impede student success. “We will work with faculties to increase synergy between curricular and co-curricular activities, to embed UWC graduate attributes from an approach of shared values, and we will enhance efforts at broadening the concept of learning and submit to the rigours of research-based interventions,” she adds. Prof Dube holds a BA degree and a BA Honours in Drama and Performance Studies from the then University of Natal, and a master’s (cum laude) and PhD (summa cum laude) in Comparative Literature and Media Studies from the University of Siegen, Germany. She was Dean of Students at the University of the Witwatersrand before joining UWC and has served in various positions at a number of institutions locally and internationally.
Professor Wendy McMillan died on 23 December 2015 after a short illness. She was the Teaching and Learning Specialist at the Faculty of Dentistry since 2003. A role model, colleague, mentor and friend, her passing leaves a large void in the faculty and she will be dearly missed.
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Professor Martin Legassick passed away on 1 March after battling throat cancer. Prof Legassick served as a lecturer in the Department of History from 1992 to 2005. He was a founding member of the Marxist Workers Tendency of the ANC. He is survived by his life partner Margie Struthers, son Dean and daughter Rosa, and his grandchildren Fleur and Robin.
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