MESSAGE FROM THE VICE-CHANCELLOR
Celebrating Excellence Warm greetings and good wishes to all our alumni, partners, friends and the DUT community at large.
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UT Connect is a special platform we use to communicate directly with this important stakeholder in our University: our alumni. It is my hope that our messages are well received and that we will encourage others to read the editions so that alumni remain informed about the latest developments at their alma mater. We hope, via Convex and representation on Council, that ideas and innovations will flow. Let me hasten to congratulate our alumni for staging a successful online elective conference for the first time in the history of DUT. Your conference sat soon after we hosted the first online SRC elections, which saw voter participation jumping from the historically low numbers of under 20% to about 39% of our student population. These two events prove that digitalisation is the future of business operations at DUT, in line with one of ENVISION 2030’s Strategic Objectives, namely the Digital Environment. Inevitably, digital platforms will always be accompanied by glitches but with the right people occupying their rightful seats and being committed to efficiency and excellence, we will continuously overcome these challenges. I wish to thank everyone who decided to participate in Convocation’s Annual General Meeting (AGM). On behalf of management, I congratulate the collective elected leadership. We look forward to your help in steering the DUT rocket into a coveted place of greatness. Ultimately, it’s not so much individual stakeholders whose interests have to be advanced but the interests of DUT as a whole. Welcome on board the DUT rocket! Some of you may have been students during the period in which DUT was arguably perceived as the protest capital of South African universities. With your individual and collective contributions, let it be said that when the name DUT is mentioned in future, it will be about its greatness and not its retrogressive aspects. Evidence abounds that DUT is cementing its
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