Tributes in Honour of Maria Lis Lange: Scholar, Administrator, Activist, Leader

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction

SECTION A: Transformation from the ‘Outside in’
Chapter 1.
The Path of Most Resistance: Remembering Lis Lange, 1961–2025
John Higgins

Chapter 2.
Lis Lange: Ten Appreciations of a Scholar and Leader in Higher Education Saleem Badat

Chapter 3.
The Role and Contribution of Lis Lange in the Council on Higher Education (2001–2011)
Mala Singh

Chapter 4.
Knowledge for, not of: Internal Quality Assurance and the Unfinished Work of Transformation in Higher Education
Kirti Menon and Gloria Castrillón

SECTION B: Transformation from the ‘Inside out’
Chapter 5.
Administrators as Intellectuals? The Academic Interiority of Maria Lis Lange and her Work in South African Higher Education
Jonathan Jansen and Le-Anne Goliath

Chapter 6.
Thinking with Lis Lange: Intellectual Bureaucrats and the Unfinished University
Thierry M. Luescher

Chapter 7.
The University in Crisis Times: A Note or Two on Lis Lange’s Intellectual Contributions
Nomalanga Mkhize

Chapter 8.
Lis Lange: A Towering Leader in Higher Education
Danwood M. Chirwa

SECTION C: Understanding in Action: Reading Lange Reading Arendt—A Provocation
Chapter 9.
Founding a Space of Epistemic Freedom
Rèné Eloff

Chapter 10.
Forget Transformation; F*ck the University
André Keet

Conclusion
André Keet and Michaela Ann Penkler

Epilogue
Reno Morar

Bibliography