No 6387
Thursday 21 May 2015
Vol cxlv No 31
pp. 538–586
24 May, Sunday. Whitsunday. Scarlet Day. Preacher before the University at 11.15 a.m., Mr A. O’Mahony, Reader in Theology and the History of Christianity, Heythrop College, University of London (Ramsden Preacher).
26 May, Tuesday. Discussion at 2 p.m. in the Senate-House (see below).
31 May, Sunday. Trinity Sunday. Scarlet Day.
1 June, Monday. End of third quarter of Easter Term.
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Discussions at 2 p.m. |
Congregations |
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26 May |
17 June, Wednesday at 2.45 p.m. (Honorary Degrees) |
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9 June |
24 June, Wednesday at 10 a.m. (General Admission) |
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7 July |
25 June, Thursday at 10 a.m. (General Admission) |
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26 June, Friday at 10 a.m. (General Admission) |
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27 June, Saturday at 10 a.m. (General Admission) |
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18 July, Saturday at 10 a.m. |
The Vice-Chancellor invites those qualified under the regulations for Discussions (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 111) to attend a Discussion in the Senate-House, on Tuesday, 26 May 2015, at 2 p.m. for the discussion of:
1. Second-stage Report of the Council, dated 12 May 2015, on the replacement and rationalization of facilities covered by the University’s Home Office Establishment Licence (Reporter, 6386, 2014–15, p. 535).
The Reports in this issue (pp. 544–67) will be discussed on 9 June 2015.
The Vice-Chancellor gives notice that at the Congregations for General Admission to Degrees to be held on 24, 25, 26, and 27 June 2015, tickets will be required for admission to the Senate-House. Admission tickets are issued by Colleges, and prospective graduands should apply to their Colleges for admission tickets for their personal friends whom they wish to invite to the Congregations. Other members of the University who wish to be present are also asked to obtain tickets from their Colleges.
The Congregations will be divided into separate sessions, with intervals between the presentation of candidates from successive Colleges, except that candidates from Murray Edwards College and Darwin College will be presented in a single session, as will candidates from Wolfson College and Clare Hall, and Lucy Cavendish College and St Edmund’s College. Visitors may not leave the Senate-House except in the intervals between sessions.
Members of the University are required to wear academical dress in the Senate-House. Any member of the University who is not acting as an officer at the Congregations and who holds a degree of another university or degree-awarding institution may wear the academical dress appropriate to that degree; save that this provision shall not apply to those presenting for, or receiving, degrees. The days of General Admission are ‘scarlet’ days, and Doctors in the different Faculties are asked to wear their festal gowns.
The doors of the Senate-House will be opened at 9.30 a.m. The Congregation will begin at 10 a.m. and graduands are asked to arrive by the following times:
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King’s College |
9.50 a.m. |
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Trinity College |
10.40 a.m. |
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St John’s College |
12.10 p.m. |
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Peterhouse |
2.20 p.m. |
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Clare College |
3.00 p.m. |
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Pembroke College |
4.10 p.m. |
The Congregation will be dissolved at about 5 p.m.
The doors of the Senate-House will be opened at 9.30 a.m. The Congregation will begin at 10 a.m. and graduands are asked to arrive by the following times:
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Gonville and Caius College |
9.50 a.m. |
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Trinity Hall |
11.10 a.m. |
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Corpus Christi College |
12.00 noon |
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Queens’ College |
12.40 p.m. |
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St Catharine’s College |
2.20 p.m. |
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Jesus College |
3.15 p.m. |
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Christ’s College |
4.25 p.m. |
The Congregation will be dissolved at about 5 p.m.
The doors of the Senate-House will be opened at 9.30 a.m. The Congregation will begin at 10 a.m. and graduands are asked to arrive by the following times:
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Magdalene College |
9.50 a.m. |
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Emmanuel College |
10.35 a.m. |
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Sidney Sussex College |
11.50 a.m. |
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Downing College |
12.35 p.m. |
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Girton College |
2.05 p.m. |
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Newnham College |
3.25 p.m. |
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Selwyn College |
4.15 p.m. |
The Congregation will be dissolved at about 5 p.m.
The doors of the Senate-House will be opened at 9.30 a.m. The Congregation will begin at 10 a.m. and graduands are asked to arrive by the following times:
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Fitzwilliam College |
9.50 a.m. |
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Churchill College |
10.40 a.m. |
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Murray Edwards College and Darwin College |
11.30 a.m. |
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Wolfson College and Clare Hall |
1.20 p.m. |
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Robinson College |
2.00 p.m. |
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Lucy Cavendish College and St Edmund’s College |
2.55 p.m. |
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Hughes Hall |
3.30 p.m. |
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Homerton College |
4.10 p.m. |
The Congregation will be dissolved at about 5.25 p.m.
The Registrary gives notice that the latest time for the receipt of supplicats and any necessary certificates of terms for persons who propose to take degrees at General Admission on Wednesday, 24 June, Thursday, 25 June, Friday, 26 June, or Saturday, 27 June 2015, is 10 a.m. on Monday, 15 June 2015. No further additions to degree lists can be accepted after that date.
The Council, at its meeting on 16 June 2008, approved a Statement of Investment Responsibility for University investments. The Statement is considered together with the Charity Commission guidance Charities and investment matters: a guide for trustees (CC14). The Statement guides the work of the Investment Board and the University’s Investment Office in the management of the CUEF.
The Advisory Committee on Benefactions and External and Legal Affairs (ACBELA, previously entitled the Executive Committee) formally reviews the Statement annually, and has made minor revisions as appropriate (Reporter, 6299, 2012–13, p. 380).
Since the Statement was approved there have been developments in the understanding of the integration of environmental, social, and governance aspects (including but not limited to fossil fuel investments) in investment decisions. The Council has endorsed the establishment of a working group of ACBELA to explore these matters more fully.
The remit of the working group is to consider whether any changes should be recommended to the current Statement of Investment Responsibility, taking into account, inter alia:
(a)how the Investment Board integrates environmental, social, and governance considerations into the University’s investment practice;
(b)the mission and core values of the University, especially its stated value of ‘concern for sustainability and its relationship with the environment’; and
(c)the relevance, performance, and scope of potential investment approaches and asset allocation strategies that would further promote the core values of the University.
The working group will be able to take evidence and call upon expertise beyond its membership as necessary. The working group will produce a report for publication and presentation to the Council within a year of its establishment.
The membership of the working group will comprise the following:
Mr John Shakeshaft (Deputy Chair of the Council, in the Chair);
Professor Fiona Karet (Council member);
Mr Richard Jones (Council member);
a member of the Investment Board nominated by the Chair of the Investment Board;
Dr David Chambers* (Newton Centre for Endowment Asset Management, Judge Business School);
Dr Bhaskar Vira (Director, University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute);
Ms Ellen Quigley (Doctoral student in the Faculty of Education and incoming CUSU Socially Responsible Investment Officer); and
Mr Farhan Samanani (Doctoral student in the Department of Social Anthropology and incoming CUSU Socially Responsible Investment Officer);
with the Director of Finance, the Chief Investment Officer, and the Deputy Director of Legal Services in attendance.
*To be confirmed.