Racial Desegregation and the Institutionalisation of "Race" in University Governance: The Case of the University of Cape Town

Autor/in	Luescher, Thierry M.
Titel	Racial Desegregation and the Institutionalisation of "Race" in University Governance: The Case of the University of Cape Town
Quelle	In: Perspectives in Education, 27 (2009) 4, S.415-425 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0258-2236
Schlagwörter	College Students; Race; Racial Integration; Racial Segregation; Governance; Foreign Countries; College Administration; Educational History; Politics of Education; Social Action; Student Role; Educational Change; Student Diversity; Racial Differences; School Desegregation; Desegregation Effects; Social Change; Educational Policy; Policy Analysis; Student Government; College Environment; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Collegestudent; Rasse; Abstammung; Rassenintegration; Rassentrennung; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Ausland; College administrators; Hochschulverwaltung; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Soziales Handeln; Bildungsreform; Rassenunterschied; Integrative Schule; Sozialer Wandel; Politics of education; Politikfeldanalyse; Schülerparlament; Hochschulumwelt; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	The racial desegregation of the student bodies of historically white universities in South Africa has had significant political implications for student politics and university governance. I discuss two key moments in the governance history of the University of Cape Town (UCT) critically. The first involves the experience of racial parallelism in student governance in the late 1980s and early 1990s, making specific reference to the re-conceptualisation of the UCT Students' Representative Council (SRC) as a "NUSAS-SRC", along with the recognition of the political salience of race in the student body. The second traces the origins of the demographic representivity rule in the university's statute to student demands for the dissolution of the UCT Council, and its replacement by a Transformation Forum in the early 1990s. I thus show that the recognition of race as politically significant in university governance is the outcome of a deliberate struggle, by students in general, and black students in particular, to de-privatise and politicise any sense of racial / racist marginalisation, and therefore to open up race as a topic for deliberation in the political realm of the post-apartheid university. Thus, the institutionalisation of race has come to serve the interests of the struggle for non-racialism. (As Provided).
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