Stella Aurorae - Guest, Bill

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Résumé :
This is the second of a three-volume history by Bill Guest of a major South African university founded as the Natal University College in Pietermaritzburg in 1909. Despite trying conditions, including two world wars, the university expanded, developed a second campus (Howard College) in Durban and became the University of Natal in 1949.The first volume covered the history of Natal University College from 1909 to 1949. This volume covers the years 1949 to 1976 during which the university continued to develop as a dual-centred institution while struggling to maintain its autonomy. This included control of a new third campus, a blacks-only medical school, in the face of interference from the apartheid government. The administrative centre of gravity shifted inexorably towards Durban as student enrolments and course options increased in the larger city. In addition to other sources the author draws extensively on the university archives of publications, reports, documents, reminiscences and minutes of meetings, recalling both the serious as well as the lighter side of campus life....

Biographie:
The author, Bill Guest, is professor emeritus and senior research associate in Historical Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Most of his academic career, starting as a student in 1959, was spent at the university where he also did his Honours, Masters and doctoral degrees. He began his academic studies at Howard College where he also lectured before taking up a post as senior lecturer on the Pietermaritzburg campus in 1977. There he later became associate professor, professor and senior professor. He has published a variety of articles and has authored, co-authored and co-edited a dozen books on South African history, focusing primarily on the Natal-Zululand region.

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