Preceded by Alan Stewart Doctoral advisor David Hall | Succeeded by James McWha Doctoral student Ted Baker | |
Full Name Thomas Neil Morris Waters | ||
Sir Thomas Neil Morris Waters is a New Zealand academic who served as vice-chancellor of Massey University from 1983 to 1995. He is noted for establishing the university's Albany campus near Auckland in 1993. Waters was knighted in the 1995 Birthday Honours for "services to tertiary education". He received an honorary doctorate from Massey in 1996.
In 2002, Massey University's governing council considered restoring Waters to the vice-chancellorship as an interim replacement following the retirement of his successor, James McWha; however, the board was prevented from doing so by the State Sector Act 1988, which barred the appointment of someone not already on the university's payroll; Waters had since moved to Auckland and no longer worked in the university sector.