The University of Johannesburg (UJ), today, announced the appointment of three new senior executives to complement the strategic direction of the institution.
Mr Jaco van Schoor takes up office as Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Finance as of 1 June 2013. He was previously Executive Director: Financial Governance and Revenue at UJ.
During his period as Executive Director, his main areas of responsibility were: budget preparation and control, strategic, statutory and management information provision, financial governance, risk management coordination, cash flow and investment management and the total revenue function of the University, which includes financial aid, credit control, student finances and all sundry debtors.
Mr van Schoor completed his articles at KPMG at the end of 1990 and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1991, after which he served as the financial manager and financial director of various commercial enterprises from 1991 to 1998. He was later appointed at the former Rand Afrikaans University (RAU) as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Accounting. In 2001, he was promoted to Chief Director: Financial Planning and Control at RAU.
Mr van Schoor currently serves on several professional bodies. He is Chairperson of the Tax Task Team, which is a subcommittee of Higher Education South Africa (HESA) Financial Executive Forum (FEF), a member of the Financial Reporting Task Team, also a subcommittee of the HESA FEF, and coordinator of HESA FEF Benchmarking Task Team.
Prof Rory Ryan takes over the reins as the new Executive Director of Academic Development and Support as of 1 January 2014. He is currently the Executive Dean in the Faculty of Humanities at UJ.
Under his guidance as Executive Dean, he has positioned the Faculty of Humanities as an important player in the higher education arena, both locally and internationally. The Faculty currently houses three important research centres and two NRF research chairs. In addition the Faculty boasts more than 40 renowned professors.
Prof Ryan obtained his BA degree from the University of the Witwatersrand (1976), his MA from Rhodes University (1979) for a dissertation entitled, ‘An Explication of Virginia Woolf’s Metaphysic of Visionary Relation’, and his Ph.D from the University of Natal (1984) for a thesis entitled, ‘A Geneva School Reconstruction of William Butler Yeats’s Conception of Reality’. He was appointed Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of South Africa in 1979 and Senior Lecturer in 1984. He was appointed Professor and Head of English at Vista University in 1991, and Director of the Vista Soweto Campus in 1994. In 1995, he was appointed Professor and Head of English at the RAU. In 2005, he was appointed Acting Dean of the Faculty of Humanities in the newly formed University of Johannesburg and, in 2006, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Humanities for a five-year term. In 2011, he was appointed for a further five-year term.
His principal area of publication has been within literary theory, particularly post-structuralist theoretical semantics, and the implications thereof for literary analysis. Within English literature, he has published on Woolf and Yeats, and continues to explore Yeats’s Automatic Script and the Vision papers. He has also published on the symbolic, using theory and methodology of anthropology, and on the postal history of the Second World War, particularly on campaign mail in East Africa and POW mail.
Prof Rory Ryan takes over the reins as the new Executive Director of Academic Development and Support as of 1 January 2014. He is currently the Executive Dean in the Faculty of Humanities at UJ.
Under his guidance as Executive Dean, he has positioned the Faculty of Humanities as an important player in the higher education arena, both locally and internationally. The Faculty currently houses three important research centres and two NRF research chairs. In addition the Faculty boasts more than 40 renowned professors.
Prof Ryan obtained his BA degree from the University of the Witwatersrand (1976), his MA from Rhodes University (1979) for a dissertation entitled, ‘An Explication of Virginia Woolf’s Metaphysic of Visionary Relation’, and his Ph.D from the University of Natal (1984) for a thesis entitled, ‘A Geneva School Reconstruction of William Butler Yeats’s Conception of Reality’. He was appointed Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of South Africa in 1979 and Senior Lecturer in 1984. He was appointed Professor and Head of English at Vista University in 1991, and Director of the Vista Soweto Campus in 1994. In 1995, he was appointed Professor and Head of English at the RAU.
In 2005, he was appointed Acting Dean of the Faculty of Humanities in the newly formed University of Johannesburg and, in 2006, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Humanities for a five-year term. In 2011, he was appointed for a further five-year term.
His principal area of publication has been within literary theory, particularly post-structuralist theoretical semantics, and the implications thereof for literary analysis. Within English literature, he has published on Woolf and Yeats, and continues to explore Yeats’s Automatic Script and the Vision papers. He has also published on the symbolic, using theory and methodology of anthropology, and on the postal history of the Second World War.
Dr Mandlenkosi Innocent Msibi is appointed as Executive Director: Research and Post-Graduate Studies as of 1 July 2013. He is currently the Director: Research and Innovation at the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT).
He obtained a BSc qualification from the University of Swaziland, a Masters’ in Business Administration from the University of Pretoria and PhD in Environmental Chemistry obtained from the University of Birmingham, in the UK.
As a researcher, Dr Msibi has published several papers and has also supervised postgraduate research at the University of Witwatersrand.
Under his management, as Director: Research and Innovation, TUT saw an increase in accredited research outputs, an increase in the number of NRF-rated researchers and an increase in the number of active research staff, including the research chairs. There was also a marked increase in external research income.
Dr Msibi has sat on numerous research advisory boards in his career. He was previously the chairperson of the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry Environmental Portfolio Committee, a member of the NRF Research Advisory committee – advising on Water and Environmental research, as well as a fellow and board member of the Water Institute of Southern Africa.ularly on campaign mail in East Africa and POW mail.
