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No 6468

Wednesday 7 June 2017

Vol cxlvii No 34

pp. 563–584

Notices

Calendar

8 June, Thursday. End of third quarter of Easter Term.

11 June, Sunday. Trinity Sunday. Scarlet Day.

12 June, Monday. Sir Robert Rede’s Lecture at 5.30 p.m. in the Senate-House. Lecturer, Dr Sue Desmond-Hellmann, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

13 June, Tuesday. Discussion at 2 p.m. in the Senate-House (see below).

16 June, Friday. Full Term ends.

21 June, Wednesday. Congregation of the Regent House at 2.45 p.m. (Honorary Degrees).

25 June, Sunday. Easter Term ends.

Discussions at 2 p.m.

Congregations

13 June

21 June, Wednesday at 2.45 p.m. (Honorary Degrees)

27 June

28 June, Wednesday at 10 a.m. (General Admission)

11 July

29 June, Thursday at 10 a.m. (General Admission)

30 June, Friday at 10 a.m. (General Admission)

1 July, Saturday at 10 a.m. (General Admission)

21 July, Friday at 10 a.m.

22 July, Saturday at 10 a.m.

Discussion on Tuesday, 13 June 2017

The Vice-Chancellor invites those qualified under the regulations for Discussions (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 103) to attend a Discussion in the Senate-House, on Tuesday, 13 June 2017, at 2 p.m., for the discussion of:

1. Report of the Council, dated 22 May 2017, on the provisions concerning the initiation of Graces and of amendments to submitted Graces by members of the Regent House (Reporter, 6466, 2016–17, p. 542).

The Report published in this issue (p. 582) will be discussed on 27 June 2017.

Amending Statutes for Corpus Christi College

24 May 2017

The Vice-Chancellor gives notice that he has received from the Governing Body of Corpus Christi 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 proposed amendments and the current Statutes of the College are available on the College’s website at http://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/about-us/publications/statutes-ordinances/. Paper copies may be inspected at the University Offices until 10 a.m. on 16 June 2017.

Amending Statutes for Sidney Sussex College

5 June 2017

The Vice-Chancellor begs leave to refer to his Notice of 10 May 2017 (Reporter, 6464, 2016–17, p. 506), concerning proposed amending Statutes for Sidney Sussex College. He hereby gives notice that in the opinion of the Council the proposed Statutes make no alteration of any Statute which affects the University, and do not require the consent of the University; that the interests of the University are not prejudiced by them, and that the Council has resolved to take no action upon them, provided that the Council will wish to reconsider the proposed Statutes if they have not been submitted to the Privy Council by 5 June 2018.

Preacher at Mere’s Commemoration

The Vice-Chancellor gives notice that The Right Reverend Andrew Watson, of Corpus Christi College, Lord Bishop of Guildford, has been appointed as Preacher at the annual Commemoration of John Mere, to be held in St Benedict’s Church at 11.45 a.m. on Tuesday, 24 April 2018.

Notice of benefactions

5 June 2017

The Vice-Chancellor gives notice that he has accepted with gratitude the following benefactions, of which both the capital and the income may be used:

(i)a bequest of £715,000 under the will of Mrs Dorothy Rose Norman, to be added to the Richard Norman Scholarship Fund, which was established in 2011 with a donation from Mrs Norman (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 891) for the benefit of postgraduate students in the Department of Engineering undertaking research in electrical engineering;

(ii)a benefaction of £453,000 from the Garfield Weston Foundation to contribute to the operating costs of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative for a period of three years;

(iii)a philanthropic grant of £410,000 from the Arcadia Fund to support the Miriam Rothschild Travel Bursary Programme in the Department of Zoology, which provides grants for those attending events offered as part of the Student Conference on Conservation Science in Cambridge;

(iv)a philanthropic grant of £300,000 from the Bharti Foundation, payable over three years, to support a research project to extend knowledge on increasing corn crop productivity to farmers, which is being undertaken by the Department of Plant Sciences in partnership with Fieldfresh Foods Pvt Ltd and researchers at NIAB in Cambridge and at Punjab Agricultural University in Ludhiana;

(v)a philanthropic grant of US$305,000 from the Arcadia Fund to support the development of a Landscape Restoration Programme for Europe by the Cambridge Conservation Initiative;

(vi)a benefaction of US$240,000 from Google Ireland to support four postgraduate studentships in the Computer Laboratory and the Department of Engineering in the fields of systems, speech technology, language understanding, and distributed systems;

(vii)a bequest of £170,686 under the will of Miss Sylvia Mary Norton, a long-time volunteer in the Botanic Garden’s library, to support the Botanic Garden, which will be used to support young scientists in research projects which use the Garden’s living collection;

(viii)a benefaction of £100,000 from the Friends of Cambridge University in Hong Kong, following a donation from Stella Lu and Leanne Lu-Chu, to support research on the acquisition of Mandarin Chinese through the foundation of a Joint Laboratory for Bilingualism partnering the University’s Department of East Asian Studies with the Brain and Mind Institute of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

The Vice-Chancellor also gives notice that he has accepted with gratitude a further benefaction of £50,000 from Mr Jan P. Roed to be added to the capital of the Medieval Scandinavian History Fund (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 877).

Election to the Board of Scrutiny

5 June 2017

Further to the Notice dated 26 May 2017 (Reporter, 6467, 2016–17, p. 555), the Council has determined, in accordance with Regulation 3 of the regulations for the election of members of the Board (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 112), that an election will be held to fill the following vacancies on the Board of Scrutiny:

one member in class (c)(i) (a person who has been a member of the Regent House for not more than ten years on 1 October 2017);

two members in class (c)(ii) (members of the Regent House).

Those elected will serve for four years from 1 October 2017. Further information about the Board of Scrutiny can be found in the Statutes and Ordinances as noted above, on the Board’s website (see the following page for prospective members: http://www.scrutiny.cam.ac.uk/about), and obtained from Dr Lydia Drumright (email lnd23@cam.ac.uk), Chair of the Board until 30 September 2017.

Under the provisions of Statute A VII 4, no person may be a member of the Board of Scrutiny who is a member of the Council, the General Board, or the Finance Committee of the Council, or who holds any of the University offices of Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University Advocate, Deputy University Advocate, Registrary, Assistant Registrary, or Secretary of a School. The Statute further prohibits from membership holders of offices with primarily administrative duties designated by Ordinance: Directors and Deputy Directors in the Unified Administrative Service and Assistant Treasurers have been designated as such prohibited offices. A retiring member of the Board who has served for four or more consecutive years is not eligible to serve again as a member in class (c) until one year has elapsed after the end of her or his previous period of service.

In order to be eligible, a candidate for election in each case must be nominated on a paper sent to the Vice-Chancellor at the Old Schools so as to be received not later than 12 noon on Tuesday, 20 June 2017. The nomination paper must contain (a) a statement signed by two members of the Regent House, nominating the candidate for election and specifying the class in which he or she is nominated, and (b) a statement signed by the candidate certifying that he or she consents to be so nominated. Forms to facilitate the nomination process are available on the governance website (see https://www.governance.cam.ac.uk/ballots/rh/Pages/Nomination-forms.aspx). The candidate is also required to provide a statement of her or his curriculum vitae by the same date (see below). No one may be nominated for election in more than one class.*

The Vice-Chancellor would be obliged if nominations could be delivered to the Registrary in the Old Schools during office hours. Nominations will be published on the Senate-House Noticeboard as they are received; the complete list of nominations will be published in the Reporter on Wednesday, 21 June 2017.

In accordance with the regulations governing the election (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 110), each person nominated for election is required to send to the Registrary, not later than 12 noon on Tuesday, 20 June 2017, a statement of her or his curriculum vitae for distribution to members of the Regent House with the voting papers. It is suggested that such a statement should be of not more than 500 words in length, and that it should cover the following points:

the candidate’s present position in the University;

previous posts held, whether in Cambridge or in other universities or outside the university system, with dates;

a note of the candidate’s particular interests within the field of University business.

Timetable

Contested elections to the Board of Scrutiny will be conducted by ballot under the Single Transferable Vote regulations, in accordance with the timetable below.

Tuesday, 20 June at 12 noon

Deadline for nominations and candidate statements

Friday, 30 June at 10 a.m.

Online voting opens

Monday, 10 July at 5 p.m.

Online voting closes

Wednesday, 12 July

Result of ballot announced in the Reporter

A link to the voting portal and information about the votes, including candidate statements, will be available on the Ballots website at https://www.governance.cam.ac.uk/ballots/voting/ and provided by email to all eligible voters shortly after voting opens. Hard-copy voting papers and supporting materials will be distributed not later than Friday, 30 June 2017 to those who opted by 3 November 2016 to vote on paper in 2016–17; the last date for the return of voting papers will be 5 p.m. on Monday, 10 July 2017.

Editorial footnote

  • * 8 June 2017: Please note this paragraph has been amended to remove a sentence, included in error, that applies only to Council elections.

Divestment of land and a building at 1 Regent Street, Cambridge

5 June 2017

Cambridge Assessment currently occupies office accommodation at five sites – four freehold and one leasehold – on Regent Street and Hills Road. In 2018 these office-based operations will be consolidated to the so-called Triangle Site, which is currently being redeveloped for that purpose. Alternative University uses for the freehold sites have been under consideration by the Estates Strategy Committee since 2015. In the following Notice the Council proposes the divestment by the University of land and a building on the site at 1 Regent Street.

1 Regent Street is a four-storey office building, sited at the front of a rectangular corner plot that extends back along Park Terrace. Behind the main building is an area of surface car parking and at the back of the site is a converted Victorian house known as Furness Lodge. The Estates Strategy Committee has endorsed a proposal to sell Furness Lodge to Emmanuel College, to grant a long lease for the current car park to the same College, and to retain the office building for the University’s operational use or for commercial letting. A plan of the site is shown below. The proposal has been scrutinized and strongly supported by the Finance Committee, and agreed for its part by the Council. The Council is accordingly submitting a Grace to the Regent House (Grace 2, p. 582) for the approval of the proposal.

Honorary Degree Committee: Call for nominations

Nominations and suggestions of names are invited for the award of honorary doctorates. Full details about the honorary degree process and eligibility criteria are published online at http://www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-university/how-the-university-and-colleges-work/processes/honorary-degrees/the-nomination-and-approval-process, where a list of honorary degrees conferred since 1977 may also be found. The University Council’s Honorary Degree Committee would welcome either full nominations submitted using the published nomination form or, more simply, suggestions of names of national or international distinction for the Committee to consider further. The University is committed to increasing diversity in this area and therefore would particularly welcome women and Black or Minority Ethnic candidates.

Nomination forms or suggestions of names should be submitted in confidence, and will be treated confidentially by the Honorary Degree Committee. In order for them to be developed and considered fully at the Michaelmas Term 2017 meeting of the Committee, they should be sent by Friday, 21 July 2017 to HonoraryDegrees@admin.cam.ac.uk.