No 6311
Wednesday 5 June 2013
Vol cxliii No 34
pp. 600–621
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 These Graces, unless they are withdrawn or a ballot is requested in accordance with the regulations for Graces of the Regent House (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 107), will be deemed to have been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, 14 June 2013.
1. That the recommendations in paragraph 8 of the First-stage Report of the Council, dated 6 May 2013, on the construction of the Maxwell Centre on the West Cambridge site (Reporter, 6306, 2012–13, p. 507) be approved.1
2. That the recommendations in paragraph 6 of the First-Stage Report of the Council, dated 6 May 2013, on the construction of a new annexe building for the Department of Engineering at Scroope Terrace (Reporter, 6306, 2012–13, p. 509) be approved.2
3. That the recommendations in paragraph 5 of the Report of the General Board, dated 1 May 2013, on the establishment of a Professorship of International Education (Reporter, 6306, 2012–13, p. 511) be approved.
4. That the recommendations in paragraph 5 of the Report of the General Board, dated 1 May 2013, on the establishment of a John Harvard Professorship in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (Reporter, 6306, 2012–13, p. 511) be approved.
5. That the recommendations in paragraph 4 of the Report of the General Board, dated 1 May 2013, on the Travelling Expenses Fund (Reporter, 6306, 2012–13, p. 513) be approved.
6. That Regulation 1 for the Board of Graduate Studies be amended so as to include:3
(e) up to four members of the Regent House co-opted by the Board.
And that the second sentence of the subsequent paragraph of the same Regulation be amended so as to read:
Members in classes (d) and (e) shall be appointed in the Easter Term to serve for three years from 1 October.
7. That Regulation 10 of the General Regulations for Admission as a Graduate Student be amended so as to begin:4
The Board shall have the power to remove any Graduate Student from the Register of Graduate Students:
1See the Council’s Notice on p. 603.
2See the Council’s Notice on p. 603.
3Statutes and Ordinances, p. 124. The Board of Graduate Studies have recommended that, given the load falling on the Board in their consideration of individual student cases and the need to maintain a spread of disciplines amongst the membership, provision be made for co-opted members.
4Statutes and Ordinances, p. 438. The Board of Graduate Studies have proposed this amendment so as to use consistent wording throughout the General Regulations for Admission as a Graduate Student.