I am fully eligible: V-C Kalyani Mathivanan

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Follow us:WhatsappFacebookTwitterTelegram.cls-1{fill:#4d4d4d;}.cls-2{fill:#fff;}Google NewsKalyani Mathivanan, Vice Chancellor of the Madurai Kamaraj University, had provided a designation different from the actual position she held at Ethiraj College here when she applied to the Search Committee for the post, a reply to an RTI query has revealed.Senior academicians, including a former and a current V-C, said that UGC norms require that a person have a minimum of 10 years of experience as “professor in a university or 10 years of experience in an equivalent position in a reputed research and/or academic administrative position” to become a V-C.Kalyani Mathivanan, who spoke to Express, said there was not an “iota” of truth to the accusation raised in several quarters that she had willfully misrepresented the designation. According to her, the post of “Professor” was abolished for a long time until 2010, when the UGC framed new regulations and brought back the designation. However, these regulations have not been implemented fully by the government and as on date, there are no persons who were elevated from the post of Associate Professor to Professor in colleges in the State.Asked why she had provided her designation as “Professor” when officially it was only “Associate Professor”, she said she was fully eligible at the time of submitting the application to be appointed as a professor.When Express contacted a senior educationist said that the norms, which are yet to be implemented, provided for the promotion of 25% of existing Associate Professors to Professors in case they had “fulfilled all qualifications provided, apart from just experience in the field.”first published:August 28, 2012, 11:31 ISTlast updated:August 28, 2012, 11:31 IST
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Kalyani Mathivanan, Vice Chancellor of the Madurai Kamaraj University, had provided a designation different from the actual position she held at Ethiraj College here when she applied to the Search Committee for the post, a reply to an RTI query has revealed.

Senior academicians, including a former and a current V-C, said that UGC norms require that a person have a minimum of 10 years of experience as “professor in a university or 10 years of experience in an equivalent position in a reputed research and/or academic administrative position” to become a V-C.

Kalyani Mathivanan, who spoke to Express, said there was not an “iota” of truth to the accusation raised in several quarters that she had willfully misrepresented the designation. According to her, the post of “Professor” was abolished for a long time until 2010, when the UGC framed new regulations and brought back the designation. However, these regulations have not been implemented fully by the government and as on date, there are no persons who were elevated from the post of Associate Professor to Professor in colleges in the State.

Asked why she had provided her designation as “Professor” when officially it was only “Associate Professor”, she said she was fully eligible at the time of submitting the application to be appointed as a professor.

When Express contacted a senior educationist said that the norms, which are yet to be implemented, provided for the promotion of 25% of existing Associate Professors to Professors in case they had “fulfilled all qualifications provided, apart from just experience in the field.”