No 6720
Wednesday 29 November 2023
Vol cliv No 10
pp. 127–162
29 November, Wednesday. End of third quarter of Michaelmas Term.
1 December, Friday. Full Term ends.
5 December, Tuesday. Discussion by videoconference at 2 p.m. (see below).
12 December, Tuesday. Discussion by videoconference at 2 p.m. (see below).
13 December, Wednesday. Last ordinary issue of the Reporter in Michaelmas Term.
19 December, Tuesday. Michaelmas Term ends.
The Vice-Chancellor invites members of the Senate, members of the Regent House, University and College employees, registered students and others qualified under the regulations for Discussions (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 111) to attend a Discussion by videoconference on Tuesday, 5 December 2023 at 2 p.m. The following item will be discussed:
1.Report of the Council, dated 10 November 2023, on a revised nomination and election process for Senate elections (Reporter, 6718, 2023–24, p. 113).
Those wishing to join the Discussion by videoconference should email UniversityDraftsman@admin.cam.ac.uk from their University email account (if they have one), providing their CRSid (if a member of the collegiate University), by 10 a.m. on the date of the Discussion to receive joining instructions. Alternatively contributors may email their remarks to contact@proctors.cam.ac.uk, copying ReporterEditor@admin.cam.ac.uk, by no later than 10 a.m. on the day of the Discussion for reading out by the Proctors,1 or may ask someone else who is attending to read the remarks on their behalf.
In accordance with the regulations for Discussions, the Chair of the Board of Scrutiny or any ten members of the Regent House2 may request that the Council arrange for one or more of the items listed for discussion to be discussed in person (usually in the Senate-House). Requests should be made to the Registrary, on paper or by email to UniversityDraftsman@admin.cam.ac.uk from addresses within the cam.ac.uk domain, by no later than 9 a.m. on the day of the Discussion. Any changes to the Discussion schedule will be confirmed in the Reporter at the earliest opportunity.
General information on Discussions is provided on the University Governance site at https://www.governance.cam.ac.uk/governance/decision-making/discussions/.
The Vice‑Chancellor invites members of the Regent House, University and College employees, registered students and others qualified under the regulations for Discussions (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 111) to attend a Discussion by videoconference on Tuesday, 12 December 2023 at 2 p.m. The following items will be discussed:
1.Annual Report of the Council for the academic year 2022–23, dated 28 November 2023 (p. 131).
2.Annual Report of the General Board to the Council for the academic year 2022–23, dated 28 November 2023 (p. 141).
Those wishing to join the Discussion by videoconference should email UniversityDraftsman@admin.cam.ac.uk from their University email account , providing their CRSid (if a member of the collegiate University), by 10 a.m. on the date of the Discussion to receive joining instructions. Alternatively contributors may email their remarks to contact@proctors.cam.ac.uk, copying ReporterEditor@admin.cam.ac.uk, by no later than 10 a.m. on the day of the Discussion for reading out by the Proctors,1 or may ask someone else who is attending to read the remarks on their behalf.
In accordance with the regulations for Discussions, the Chair of the Board of Scrutiny or any ten members of the Regent House2 may request that the Council arrange for one or more of the items listed for discussion to be discussed in person (usually in the Senate-House). Requests should be made to the Registrary, on paper or by email to UniversityDraftsman@admin.cam.ac.uk from addresses within the cam.ac.uk domain, by no later than 9 a.m. on the day of the Discussion. Any changes to the Discussion schedule will be confirmed in the Reporter at the earliest opportunity.
General information on Discussions is provided on the University Governance site at https://www.governance.cam.ac.uk/governance/decision-making/discussions/.
1Any comments sent by email should please begin with the name and title of the contributor as they wish it to be read out and include at the start a note of any College and/or Departmental affiliations held.
2https://www.scrutiny.cam.ac.uk/ and https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/regent_house_roll/.
The Vice-Chancellor gives notice that she has received from the Governing Body of Christ’s College, in accordance with the provisions of Section 7(2) of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge Act 1923, the text of proposed Statutes to amend the Statutes of the College. The current Statutes of the College and the proposed amendments are available on the College’s website at https://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/college-statutes.
The Council will consider the amendments after 10 a.m. on Thursday, 14 December 2023.
No nominations were received by the deadline in the election to the Council’s Finance Committee in class (b) (see Reporter, 6718, 2023–24, p. 110). A Notice confirming arrangements for another election to the vacancy will be published in due course.
The Vice-Chancellor has received the following nominations, in accordance with Statute A VII 3, for election to the Board of Scrutiny in class (c)(i) (a member of the Regent House who has been a member of the Regent House for not more than ten years on 1 October 2024), and it has been certified to her that the candidates have consented to be nominated:
Dr Judith Plummer
Braeckman
Nominated by: Dr K. S. Friedman,
HO, and Dr E. Usenmez
Dr Ralph St Clair
Wade
Nominated by:
The Rev’d Dr Mark Oakley, JN, and
Dr C. J. Faraday, CAI
There will be an election to select one from among the two candidates, to serve with immediate effect until 30 September 2025. Online voting will open at 10 a.m. on Friday, 8 December and close at 5 p.m. on Monday, 18 December 2023. Hardcopy voting papers and supporting materials will be distributed not later than Friday, 8 December to those who opted in November 2023 to vote on paper; the last date for the return of voting papers is 5 p.m. on Monday, 18 December 2023.