List of applicants for VC post in varsity released

THE list of applications received for the post of Bharathidasan University (BDU) Vice-Chancel-lor (VC) released on Monday raised eyebrows among academicians. More applications were received for the VC position than for assistant professors. Academicians suggest the minimum age requirement for a VC should be regulated to select an experienced candidate. Asper the list of VC applicants on the BDU website, 241 candidates have applied for the post. As work on selecting a new VC is on simultaneously at Periyar University and BDU, the former received 194 applications. A BDU source said the last date for receiving VC applications was November 20 and a three-member committee would scrutinise the CVs by December 20. "With just a
Not many keen A member of the Teachers Association of Bharathidasan University said only about 100 applications or even less have been submitted for assistant professor posts
few days left for December, it is doubtful whether the committee would be able to scrutinise all ap-plications since the response has been overwhelming," the source said. Express had earlier reported the process for selecting the BDU VC would become transparent. Now, this is the first time the uni-versity has introduced transpar-ency in its method of processing VC applications. A member of the Teachers Association of
Bharathidasan University (TABU) said only about 100 applications or even less has been submitted for assistant professor posts in all departments. "It comes as a shock to see such a huge number of applications for the BDU VC post. The norms should be tightened to scrutinise the applications. A minimum age for VC candidates should be prescribed," the TABU member said. The existing BDU norms make anybody within '70 years of age eligible to apply for the VC post. The TABU member said VC aspirants must have more credentials than an assistant professor and a high Academic Performance Index (API) score of more than 400 points. A lecturer with the university said the expenditure for scrutinising applications would likely shoot up and matters would be-come difficult.
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