JU teachers boycott classes, exams
Demand senate election prior to VC nomination
Academic activities at Jahangirnagar University (JU) came to a halt yesterday after a section of the university teachers staged an all-out strike on the campus, boycotting all classes and examinations on the day.
The teachers, under the banner of “Shammilito Shikkhak Parishad,” also continued their sit-in programme in front of the administrative building on the campus, demanding to hold the university's senate election prior to nominating for a three-member vice-chancellor (VC) panel.
They said 52 out of the 88 current senators of the university are invalid since their tenures of holding the post has expired.
The teachers, thus, have been demonstrating from Saturday, demanding that the senate members be elected first and, then only, members from among them must be nominated for the VC's post, they said.
The JU authorities said to have called a special senate meeting on July 20 to nominate the VC as per the University Act, 1973.
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