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REPORTS

Report of the Council on the Cycle for the nomination of Proctors

The COUNCIL beg leave to report to the University as follows:

1. Statute D, VI, 1 provides that the Proctors 'shall be nominated for election by such of the Colleges as may be prescribed in Schedule A, in turn, two for every year, according to the Cycle prescribed in that Schedule … provided that the University shall have power to amend the Cycle from time to time'. The Cycle currently in force (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 89) is that approved in 1978, as modified in 1985; it provides for the nomination of Proctors up to and including the year 2003-04.

2. The duty of nominating a Proctor is restricted to full Colleges of the University; Approved Foundations and Approved Societies are not eligible to make nominations. Since the last major revision of the Cycle in 1978 Clare Hall and Robinson College have been recognized as full Colleges; they were included in the modified Cycle which was approved in 1985. Since 1985 two further institutions which were formerly Approved Foundations, Lucy Cavendish College and St Edmund's College, have been recognized as full Colleges, and the Council now propose that they should also be given a place in the Cycle.

3. The present Cycle gives each College two nominations over the period 1979-2004, except for Trinity Hall, Darwin College, Wolfson College, and Clare Hall, which have one each. Trinity Hall has only one nomination because of that College's long-standing obligation to provide a Proctor in the event of a casual vacancy; it has also been thought appropriate until now for each of the three graduate Colleges to have only one nomination.

4. The new Cycle now proposed covers the remaining years of the present Cycle, up to the year 2003-04, and continues until 2030-31. In the period 2004-31 the same general pattern has been followed as in the past; each College has two nominations, except for Trinity Hall, which has only one on account of the obligation mentioned above, and Clare Hall, Lucy Cavendish College, and St Edmund's College, which also have only one each on account of the relatively small size of their Fellowships.

5. The Council have consulted the Colleges and have ascertained that the proposed new Cycle is acceptable to them.

6. The Council accordingly recommend:

That Schedule A of the Statutes (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 89), the Cycle for the nomination of Proctors, be replaced by the following Schedule:

26 April 1999

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Cambridge University Reporter, 28 April 1999
Copyright © 1999 The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.