President Zeman appoints Professor Tomáš Zima Rector of CU












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            * President Zeman appoints Professor Tomáš Zima Rector of CU
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            In a ceremony held at Prague Castle on 21 January, the new Rector of Charles University, P

            Zima received, together with other newly elected rectors of public universities, his decre
            from the President of the Czech Republic, Miloš Zeman. Also attending the ceremony on beha
            university were the incumbent Rector, Professor Václav Hampl, and the Chairman of the Acad

            Professor Jan Hála.



            The President said that, prior to the appointment, he had carefully studied documentation 
            rectors, including records of the election processes. “It is with respect and admiration t

            your professional qualifications, expressed in terms of your publications and, amongst oth
            list of citations, apart from autocitations, which are more typical for compulsive writers
            Zeman, wishing the rectors luck in combining their managerial and professional activities.

            The Rector of Charles University, Professor Václav Hampl, spoke on behalf of the rectors o
            universities, whose mandate ends at the end of January. In his speech, amongst other thing
            two significant dates in January for Czech higher education – 18 January, the day on which

            technical university in Europe, the Czech Technical University in Prague, and 26 January, 
            a papal bull was issued permitting the founding of a studium generale in Prague, considere
            to be a key date in the history of higher learning in the Bohemian lands. “It would not be

            the work done by us outgoing rectors – that is the task of history,” said CU Rector Václav
            also expressing the hope that history would one day find his work to have had a positive e
            A speech of thanks was given on behalf of all newly elected rectors by the incoming Rector

            University, Professor Tomáš Zima, who said that the rectors realised the responsibility of
            position, not only towards the academic community, but also towards society as a whole, as
            were institutions whose activities affected events in the country. “We shall endeavour to 

            good things that took place in our universities, from the development of modern trends in 
            students to the transmission of information to society, creation of new, high-quality cent
            and the influencing of events in society, as universities are traditionally places of free

            discussion,” said Rector Zima.