{"id":119930,"date":"2021-11-03T15:45:02","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T22:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=119930"},"modified":"2021-11-03T15:45:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T22:45:02","slug":"colombo-uni-students-union-opposes-ven-murutthettuwe-anandas-appointment-as-new-chancellor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/11\/03\/colombo-uni-students-union-opposes-ven-murutthettuwe-anandas-appointment-as-new-chancellor\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombo Uni. Students\u2019 Union opposes Ven. Murutthettuwe Ananda\u2019s appointment as new Chancellor"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Colombo University Students&#8217; Union and the Student Community unanimously expressed their displeasure over the appointment of Ven. Murutthettuwe Ananda Thera as the new Chancellor of Colombo University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The University Students&#8217; Union claims that the Chancellorship of a university should never be a political appointment or to fulfill a political agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the Chancellor has no statutory administrative powers, the he is a symbol of the University&#8217;s honour, especially at the graduation ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the government has appointed Ven. Murutthettuwe Ananda as the next Chancellor of the University of Colombo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It is in this context that the independence and dignity of the university administration are preserved. But we believe that a political appointment to the post of a Chancellor of the University could destroy both the independence of the university administration and the dignity of the University overall,&#8221; the Students&#8217; Union said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, we, as the Students&#8217; Union, and on behalf of the entire student community, express our strong opposition to this political appointment to the University of Colombo, which has a distinguished history and is still a prestigious university today, the Students&#8217; Union added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Colombo University Students&#8217; Union and the Student Community unanimously expressed their displeasure over the appointment of Ven. Murutthettuwe Ananda Thera as the new Chancellor of Colombo University. The University Students&#8217; Union claims that the Chancellorship of a university should never be a political appointment or to fulfill a political agenda. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}