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No 6296

Wednesday 6 February 2013

Vol cxliii No 19

pp. 345–354

Graces

Graces submitted to the Regent House on 6 February 2013

The Council submits the following Graces to the Regent House. These Graces, unless they are withdrawn or a ballot is requested in accordance with the regulations for Graces of the Regent House (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 107), will be deemed to have been approved at 4 p.m. on Friday, 15 February 2013.

1. That the regulations for the Joint Committee on Development (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 140) be rescinded and replaced by the regulations set out below.1

Joint Committee on Development

1. The Joint Committee on Development shall be a joint Committee of the Council and the Colleges and shall consist of:

(a)the Vice-Chancellor and the Chairman of the Colleges Committee (ex officio) who shall be co-Chairmen;

(b)a member of the Council appointed by the Council;

(c)three members of the Regent House appointed by the Council, on the nomination of the General Board, who shall normally be persons having experience of fund-raising at the University level, one of whom shall be a Head of School;

(d)a Head of House appointed by the Colleges’ Standing Committee;

(e)four persons appointed by the Colleges’ Standing Committee having regard to their experience of fund-raising for the Colleges;

(f)the Director of Development and Alumni Relations;

(g)the Executive Director of Cambridge in America.

Members in classes (b) to (e) shall be appointed in the Michaelmas Term to serve for three years from 1 January next following their appointment. The Registrary, the Academic Secretary, and the Director of the Finance Division of the University Offices shall have the right to attend meetings of the Committee.

2. The Registrary shall designate a University officer to act as Secretary to the Joint Committee.

3. The duties of the Joint Committee shall be:

(a)to monitor the performance of, and recommend revisions to, the overall strategy for fund-raising on behalf of the University and the Colleges;

(b)to keep under review and facilitate the relationships and links between the University and the Colleges and their members;

(c)to facilitate and support effective collaboration between the University and the Colleges;

(d)to receive and review the budget and work plan for collaborative activity in fund-raising undertaken through the office of Cambridge in America in the USA, and any such similar bodies that may be established in future on a jointly funded basis elsewhere in the world, and to recommend them to the Planning and Resources Committee for approval.

2. That Regulation 1 for the Craig Taylor Fund (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 796) be amended so as to read:2

1. The income of the Craig Taylor Fund shall be used to provide one or more annual prizes, to be called the Craig Taylor Prizes, which shall be awarded by the Board of Examiners for Part Ia, Part Ib, or Part II of the Philosophy Tripos to the candidates who have shown the greatest distinction in any Part of the Philosophy Tripos, or in any component of any Part of the Tripos as the Faculty Board of Philosophy shall from time to time specify.

Footnotes

  • 1The Council and the Colleges’ Standing Committee have accepted a proposal from the Joint Committee on Development to amend the regulations governing the Committee’s membership and terms of reference. The proposed amendments reflect the work of the Joint Committee in preparing for future fundraising.


  • 2This change of awarding body is being made on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Philosophy.


Graces to be submitted to the Regent House at a Congregation to be held on 16 February 2013

The Council has sanctioned the submission of the following Graces to the Regent House at a Congregation to be held on Saturday, 16 February 2013.1

1. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa be conferred under Statute B, IV upon Daniel Kahneman, F.B.A., Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus, and Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs Emeritus at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Nobel Laureate.

2. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa be conferred under Statute B, IV upon Joseph Eugene Stiglitz, M.A., ForMemRS, F.B.A., Honorary Fellow of Gonville and Caius College and of Fitzwilliam College, University Professor in Finance and Economics, Columbia University, Nobel Laureate.

3. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa be conferred under Statute B, IV upon Harold Eliot Varmus, ForMemRS, Rede Lecturer 2011, Director of The National Cancer Institute, United States of America, Nobel Laureate, oncologist and geneticist.

4. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa be conferred under Statute B, IV upon Ada Yonath, Martin S. and Helen Kimmel Professor of Structural Biology and Director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, Nobel Laureate.

5. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Letters honoris causa be conferred under Statute B, IV upon Sir John Huxtable Elliott, M.A., Ph.D., F.B.A., Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, formerly University Lecturer in History, Regius Professor of Modern History Emeritus, University of Oxford.

6. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Letters honoris causa be conferred under Statute B, IV upon Hilary Mary Mantel, C.B.E., F.R.S.L., author.

7. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Letters honoris causa be conferred under Statute B, IV upon Jonathan Dermot Spence, C.M.G., M.A., F.B.A., Honorary Fellow of Clare College, Sterling Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University, historian of China.

8. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Letters honoris causa be conferred under Statute B, IV upon Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, Marquis of Vargas Llosa, Honorary Fellow of Churchill College and formerly Simón Bolívar Professor in Latin American Studies, Nobel Laureate, author.

Footnotes

  • 1It is expected that these Honorary Degrees will be conferred at a Congregation to be held on Tuesday, 18 June 2013 (see the Notice on p. 346).