25-691: The South African Students Congress ( SASCO ) is a South African student organisation currently led by Vezinhlanhla Simelane as the organization's President. SASCO was founded in September 1991 at Rhodes University in Grahamstown , Eastern Cape , through the merger of the South African National Student Congress (SANSCO) and the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS). The predecessor of SANSCO,
50-525: A Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degree was R26,590 and R27,720, respectively, and the cost of board was between R35,700 and R37,600. Rhodes admitted 1592 students in 2012. The tables below show the racial and gender composition of the university for that year. Rhodes holds fourteen national research chairs appointed under the South African Research Chairs Initiative . This accounts for approximately 7% of
75-539: A British businessman who heavily aided British imperial interests in South Africa, which led to controversy starting in 2015. Protests held that year by Rhodes Must Fall led to the University of Cape Town removing a statue of Rhodes, and similar protests against Rhodes' legacy occurred at Rhodes University. Some students and outlets started referring to it as "The University Currently Known As Rhodes". In 2015
100-564: A law clinic, which operates as a firm of attorneys providing training to law students and free legal services for indigent people. The law clinic operates from two offices, one in Makhanda and one in Komani. The law clinic came to national attention in July 2013 when it represented 15 members of Nelson Mandela's family in their litigation against Mandla Mandela (Nelson Mandela's grandson) concerning
125-522: A new library building at a cost of R85 million, one of the largest infrastructure projects undertaken by the university, and was completed in 2010. Rhodes has six faculties, listed below: The six faculties are further subdivided into 30 academic departments, of which 11 form part of the humanities faculty. The humanities faculty, being the largest in the university, consists of 40% of the student intake of undergraduate and postgraduate studies, enrolling 2669 students as of 2009. Rhodes University operates
150-658: Is a public research university located in Makhanda (formerly Grahamstown) in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. It is one of four universities in the province. Established in 1904, Rhodes University is the province's oldest university, and it is the sixth oldest South African university in continuous operation, being preceded by the University of the Free State (1904), University of Witwatersrand (1896), University of South Africa (1873) as
175-716: The Azanian Students Organisation (AZASO) was initially formed in 1979 as a continuation of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) when the latter was banned by the Apartheid government. SASO, in turn, got started by Steve Biko as a breakaway faction from NUSAS in the 1960s. SASCO is the biggest student movement in Africa . Rhodes University Rhodes University ( Afrikaans : Rhodes Universiteit )
200-799: The Cape Town Botanical Garden and curator of the Cape Government Herbarium, he returned to Grahamstown and assisted Schonland in the development of the local herbarium. The Irish descendant Henry George Flanagan of the Eastern Cape contributed to this Herbarium with specimens, both in Grahamstown and in Cape Town, as did Florence Mary Paterson in 1909 and Constance Georgina Adams , who contributed her collection in 1919. Schonland approached one of
225-520: The Separate University Education Bill , which they condemned as interference with academic freedom. However, the two bills were passed, and Fort Hare's affiliation to Rhodes came to an end in 1959. Nevertheless, in 1962 an honorary doctorate was conferred on the state president, C. R. Swart, who (as Minister of Justice after 1948) had been responsible for the repression of opposition political organisations. The award caused
250-547: The University of the Cape of Good Hope , Stellenbosch University (1866) and the University of Cape Town (1829). Rhodes was founded in 1904 as Rhodes University College , named after Cecil Rhodes , through a grant from the Rhodes Trust . It became a constituent college of the University of South Africa in 1918 before becoming an independent university in 1951. The university had an enrollment of over 8,000 students in
275-586: The 2015 academic year, of whom just over 3,600 lived in 51 residences on the campus, with the rest (known as Oppidans ) taking residence in digs (off-campus residences) or in their own homes in the town. Although a proposal to found a university in Grahamstown had been made as early as 1902, financial problems caused by the Frontier Wars in Albany prevented the proposal from being implemented. In 1904 Leander Starr Jameson issued £50 000 preferred stock to
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#1732797517820300-574: The Rhodes Trustees, Dr. Leander Starr Jameson to assist in funding. Jameson, soon to be elected Member of Parliament for Albany and Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, promised £50,000 without consulting his fellow Trustees. At first they refused to confirm the grant; then, persuaded by Schonland, they made over De Beers Preference Shares to the value of £50 000 to Rhodes University College, founded by Act of Parliament on May 31, 1904. By
325-593: The beginning of 1905, Rhodes moved from cramped quarters at St Andrew's to the Drostdy building, which it bought from the British Government . Rhodes became a constituent college of the new University of South Africa in 1918 and it continued to expand in size. When the future of the University of South Africa came under review in 1947, Rhodes opted to become an independent university. Rhodes University
350-661: The family Crassulaceae and contributed an account of this group to Engler & Prantl's Natürl. Pflanzenfamilien . While at Oxford, he translated, with Edward Bagnall Poulton and Arthur Shipley , August Weismann 's "Essays upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems". Coming to the museum in Grahamstown gave him the opportunity to broaden his interests and develop the second largest herbarium in South Africa which had been founded by W. G. Atherstone in 1860. His father-in-law, Peter MacOwan , had been its honorary curator from 1862 to 1869 before moving to Somerset East . When MacOwan retired from his subsequent post as director of
375-853: The founder of the Department of Botany at Rhodes University , was a German immigrant, who came to the Eastern part of the Cape Colony in 1889 to take up an appointment as curator of the Albany Museum . He came to Grahamstown via a doctorate at the University of Hamburg and a post at Oxford University (1886–1889 as curator of the Fielding Herbarium and a lecturer in Botany). Working under Prof. Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour and Prof. Sydney Howard Vines , he developed an interest in
400-437: The location of family grave sites. Rhodes is a small, highly residential university. For most undergraduates, first and second years of study are done while living in campus residences. Rhodes' academic program operates on a semester calendar , beginning in early-February to early-June, and the second semester beginning in late-July and ending late-November. Undergraduate tuition for the first year of study in 2011 towards
425-481: The most well-known departments on the Rhodes campus is the university's school of Journalism and Media Studies, through which many of South Africa's most notable media celebrities have passed. There are also an especially high number of radio celebrities who graduated at Rhodes – many of them having spent time with the university's campus radio station Rhodes Music Radio . The university's name references Cecil Rhodes ,
450-493: The person and had distinguished itself with the name Rhodes University as one of the world's best. The main argument against the change was financial, as such a change would cost a significant amount of money and the university was already having trouble with its budget. Furthermore, changing the university's name could have an adverse effect on its recognition internationally. Selmar Schonland Selmar Schonland (15 August 1860 – 22 April 1940), originally spelt Schönland ,
475-562: The resignation of the chancellor, Sir Basil Schonland, although his reasons were not made public at the time. James Hyslop succeeded Alty in 1963. In 1971, Rhodes negotiated to purchase the closed teacher training college run by the sisters of the Community of the Resurrection of our Lord including the buildings and grounds and a number of adjacent buildings, facilitating further expansion. During 2008 work began on construction of
500-792: The time Schonland retired, the Botany Department and Rhodes University had become an established centre of taxonomic research and learning in South Africa. He played a leading role in the Botanical Survey of South Africa which had been initiated by Pole Evans . He was a foundation member of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science , honorary member of the Geological Society of South Africa, foundation member and Fellow of
525-497: The total awarded nationally in South Africa, a significant proportion given the university's small size. Three student newspapers, Activate , The Oppidan Press and Cue , have been published daily during the National Arts Festival held in Makhanda every year for several decades. Activate celebrated its 65th birthday in 2012, while The Oppidan Press was only first published in 2007, and its target readership
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#1732797517820550-586: The university council undertook to determine whether or not the institution should change its name, as well as consider several other ways it could deal with the issues. In 2017, the Rhodes University Council voted 15–9 in favour of keeping the existing name. While the university agreed with critics that "[it] cannot be disputed that Cecil John Rhodes was an arch-imperialist and white supremacist who treated people of this region as sub-human", it also said it had long since distanced itself from
575-649: The university from the Rhodes Trust . With this funding Rhodes University College was founded by an act of parliament on 31 May 1904. University education in the Eastern Cape began in the college departments of four schools: St. Andrew's College ; Gill College, Somerset East; Graaff-Reinet College; and the Grey Institute in Port Elizabeth . The four St Andrew's College professors, Arthur Matthews, George Cory , Stanley Kidd and G. F. Dingemans became founding professors of Rhodes University College. At
600-645: Was inaugurated on 10 March 1951. Sir Basil Schonland , son of Selmar Schonland , became the first chancellor of his alma mater, and Dr. Thomas Alty the first vice-chancellor. In terms of the Rhodes University Private Act, the University College of Fort Hare was affiliated to Rhodes University. This mutually beneficial arrangement continued until the apartheid government decided to disaffiliate Fort Hare from Rhodes. The Rhodes Senate and Council objected strongly to this, and to
625-637: Was mainly Oppidans. The journal Philosophical Papers is edited in the department of philosophy. Rhodes University faculties and departments produce scholarly journals, including: In 2011, the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities ranked Rhodes 5th in South Africa and 700th globally. In academia, Old Rhodian Max Theiler was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research in virology in 1951. One of
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