JACKSONVILLE, Florida, Wednesday, 8th January 2003
Nobel Peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu is joining the University of North Florida as a visiting scholar-in-residence for the spring.
Tutu, honoured with the Nobel Prize in 1984 for helping lead the nonviolent battle against apartheid in his native South Africa, will have an office on campus, interim President David Kline said last week.
Tutu became the first black Anglican bishop of Johannesburg in 1983 and later became the first black archbishop of Cape Town.
He was drawn to the campus by adjunct professor Oupa Seane, who befriended Tutu as a teenager in South Africa. Seane, a political science and public administration professor, joined Tutu at political marches and rallies opposing apartheid.
The archbishop could have gone to Harvard, the archbishop could have gone to Yale, Seane told The Florida Times-Union newspaper. The archbishop could have gone to Princeton, Oxford or Cambridge. But the archbishop chose UNF.
Tutu began his career as a schoolteacher in 1954. He taught as a visiting professor of theology at Atlanta's Emory University from 1998 to 2000.
AP
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