NLS alum association pleads with CJI to conclude VC appointment of alum ASAP

Saturday, 14 September 2019 By Legally India Law schools

The NLSIU Alumni Association has sent a letter to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) to request the prompt appointment of Prof Sudhir Krishnaswamy as next vice chancellor of NLSIU Bangalore.

According to the letter:

We, as alumni of the esteemed institution, are concerned that the leadership vacuum so created will adversely affect the functioning of the institution and its future progress. We therefore request Your Lordship’s kind intervention, as Chancellor of the University, in the matter by communicating your confirmation as to the appointment of the Vice Chancellor selected through the elaborate process established and implemented by the Selection Committee as well as the Executive Council of NLSIU.

The association is understood to have been working behind the scenes since at least early this year to ensure that its alma mater receives a strong successor to previous VC Prof Venkata Rao.

In the letter, it noted that in May 2019 the association had written to the VC selection committee with “the views of the NLSIU alumni regarding the qualities required for the position, and suggested the names of some potential candidates”.

According to the letter, the committee “was kind enough to give due consideration to the views and suggestions put forth” by the alumns.

The student body has also this week strongly criticised the delay in the appointment.

Full letter below:

Comments

Guest 14 Sept 2019, 11:56

+12 -1

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why NLSIU has been able to fend off domicile quotas, appointment of political chelas in the EC, and third rate VCs.

Lesson for other NLUs: Unite and rope in alumni, shame the admin before the media and SC. Facebook posts and memes won't work.

Lesson for NLUD: Get cracking.

Guest 14 Sept 2019, 12:02

+5 -0

[quote]In the letter, it noted that in May 2019 the association had written to the VC selection committee with “the views of the NLSIU alumni regarding the qualities required for the position, and suggested the names of some potential candidates”.
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Kian, you never broke this news about this hush-hush letter before. Can you get hold of the letter? It can inspire NLUD to do the same.

Guest 14 Sept 2019, 12:11

+10 -0

Menon's blessings + Media coverage + Alumni Intervention + well wishers like Kian Ganz = Hogwarts is safe.

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Dumbledore is Deaf 14 Sept 2019, 12:50

+2 -2

To quote modern day philosopher and thinker John McEnroe,

"You cannot be serious!?"

Guest 14 Sept 2019, 12:12

+3 -0

NLUD right now: Hold my beer...

Guest 14 Sept 2019, 12:16

+5 -1

Hang on.... This means the alumni secretively wrote to the committee and named Sudhir as their preferred choice to the selection committee??? Why was this hidden from the public? Who else was named?

Really dude? 17 Sept 2019, 12:15

+0 -0

Why are you clutching your pearls?
Why does this even surprise you?
What is this righteous indignation?

Guest 14 Sept 2019, 12:18

+4 -0

GNLU and NUJS f**ked up big time by not doing something similar. CJI is Chancellor for both institutions. This could have seen Manoj Sinha at GNLU and VC Vivekanandan at NUJS.

Guest 14 Sept 2019, 12:33

+1 -4

There is a big difference. Here the search committee was progressive enough to seek alumni view before selection. That's what gives them the locus to raise questions now why the selection isn't being implemented. In other cases, alumni were not sought to be involved. The students of NUJS at least wrote to the CJI several times. He ignored them and instead chose to rely on the words of Justice Mishra, who was his representative in the search committee and has long been playing the dubious role of causing irreparable harm to NUJS using his EC position.

Guest 15 Sept 2019, 00:42

Utter rubbish. Lame excuses for students too timid/arrogant/short-sighted to reach out to alumni and the media and mount an offensive.

Guest 15 Sept 2019, 04:40

+1 -2

That's rich, a person afraid of using his own name while commenting calling others timid. :D

Guest 14 Sept 2019, 12:53

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Do not disclose 14 Sept 2019, 13:03

+0 -2

I am sure Legally India will respect sensitivities and journalistic ethics, and not publish the letter of May 2019. It was a completely confidential letter. In any case, it is completely legal and ethical of the students and alumni to unite and suggest names of alumni as VCs and suggest age limits to encourage younger candidates. It is not anyone else's business to pry. If other colleges did not do so then tough luck. In any case, other colleges will get a chance to act similarly in coming years, starting with NLUD in 2020.

Guest 15 Sept 2019, 00:40

+0 -1

Sudhir will head to NLUD if his appointment is stalled, so NLUD will secretly hope that the NLSIU admin wins!

WOW 15 Sept 2019, 00:46

+1 -1

This is a massive revelation. Some people were openly favoured and suggested as VC before the selection committee. In the interests of transparency the letter and names in the list must come out. Just as the NLSIU admin must be transparent, the students and alumni must also make it clear who they named in the letter.

I am not sure if Kian will leak the letter given that he his pals with the NLSIU community, but Kian must confess if he knew this letter existed and if names were forwarded.

Recent Alum 15 Sept 2019, 06:07

Kian does not have that letter. The NLSIU Alumni Association collected suggestions and feedback from its own members. They named more than 20 possible candidates, including the two others who were eventually shortlisted. In fact, many of the suggested names included several serving NLU VCs and people teaching abroad who chose not to apply. So this was definitely not an attempt to push for the person who was eventually recommended.

Guest 15 Sept 2019, 12:21

Even had the alum pushed for Sudhir directly, how would that be a bad thing? When you make suggestions to the search committee, that's what you essentially do, you say A might be better than B for the job in your opinion! It's only if you're part of the committee itself that it might be problematic to have a pre-conceived bias.

Guest 15 Sept 2019, 17:09

+2 -0

I wish the alumni had taken same proactive stand for faculty recruitment also which has not taken for last thirteen years. The institution does not have a single permanent assistant professor, neither they have a permanent librarian and finance officer. Delay in appointment of VC (an alum) has immediately gained attention but what about other issues.the statement has really been issued in the institutional interest????

Guest 15 Sept 2019, 17:50

+2 -1

The alum did this because the search committee was progressive enough to include them in the process. Otherwise, all their letters would have come to naught. The faculty recruitment is up to the governing body. They don't include alum as such. If students really have that big a problem with existing faculty, why aren't they protesting about the same? I would have thought that's more of an immediate concern than who gets to be the VC.

Really dude? 17 Sept 2019, 12:19

The NLS alumni group decided to push for someone who is in the alumni.

How is this a revelation to you?

What a total non-story.

Shameful NLS Bangalore 18 Sept 2019, 16:54

+1 -3

NLS becomes a joke. Shame shame. They called themselves Harvard of the East. VC appointment halted by Registrar. Next registrar appointment will be halted by the headclerk. Horrible.

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