Editing Addis Ababa University (section)

=== Administration ===
[[File:Lucien Matte and Emperor of Ethiopia.jpg|thumbnail|[[Emperor Haile Selassie]] (center) and French Canadian Jesuit, Fr. Lucien Matte, SJ (right) at the university, 1951]]
Until 1974 the charter provided for a governance structure in the following descending order or authority: Chancellor (the Emperor himself); the Board of Governors, composed of ministers and members of the royal family; and the Faculty Council, made up of the university officers, deans, directors and elected members. The Faculty later became the Senate. In 1977, [[Duri Mohammed]] was appointed president of AAU, under his leadership the academy was preserved and even saw its resurgence despite the turbulent times amid the [[Ethiopian Revolution|Ethiopian inserruction]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Report of the Addis Ababa University Revitalization Study Committee |date=2020 |publisher=Ethiopian Ministry of Education |page=49 |url=https://moe.gov.et/storage/Books/FINAL%20Main%20AAU%20Revitalization%20Plan.pdf}}</ref> The AAU also lost its relative autonomy when it was brought under the Commission for Higher Education, which came to exercise administrative jurisdiction over all institutions of higher learning.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite web |title=AAU Leadership |url=http://www.aau.edu.et/aau-leadership/ |website=Addis Ababa University}}</ref> In 1993, AAU was placed under the [[Ministry of Education (Ethiopia)|Ministry of Education]] by a government proclamation. The incoming transitional government appointed Duri Mohammed as president once again, a purging of 42 staff members which included [[Asrat Woldeyes]] and former president Alemayehu Teferra ensued.<ref>{{cite book |author=Taye Assefa |title=Academic Freedom in Ethiopia Perspectives of Teaching Personnel |date=2008 |publisher=Forum for Social Studies |page=47 |isbn=978-99944-50-20-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A_qnbcFvUPkC}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=42 University instructors dismissed on political grounds to be reinstated |date=24 July 2018 |publisher=borkena |url=https://borkena.com/2018/07/23/42-university-instructors-dismissed-on-political-grounds-to-be-reinstated/}}</ref>