Issue 4: October 2000

UNU Rector to lead International
Association of Universities

Hans van Ginkel

UNU Rector Hans van Ginkel has been elected to a four year term as President of the International Association of Universities.

Founded in 1950, the UNESCO-based IAU convenes institutions and organizations from 150 countries for reflection and action on common concerns and collaborates with international, regional and national bodies active in higher education.

Its services are available to organizations, institutions and authorities concerned with higher education, as well as to individual policy and decision makers, specialists, administrators, teachers, researchers and students.

IAU’s mission is based on four principles:

• the right to pursue knowledge for its own sake,

• to follow wherever the search for truth may lead,

• tolerance of divergent opinion, and

• freedom from political interference.

The Association also aims to give expression to the obligation of universities as social institutions to promote, through teaching and research, the principles of freedom and justice, of human dignity and solidarity, and contributes, through international cooperation, to the development of material and moral assistance for the strengthening of higher education in general.

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