No 6737
Wednesday 24 April 2024
Vol cliv No 27
pp. 497–505
27 April, Saturday. Congregation of the Regent House at 10 a.m.
30 April, Tuesday. Discussion by videoconference at 2 p.m. (see below).
4 May, Saturday. End of first quarter of Easter Term.
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Discussions (Tuesdays at 2 p.m.) |
Congregations (at 10 a.m. unless otherwise stated) |
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30 April 14 May 28 May 25 June 9 July 16 July |
27 April 17 and 18 May 19 June at 2.45 p.m. (Honorary Degrees) 26, 27, 28 and 29 June (General Admission) 18, 19 and 20 July |
The Vice‑Chancellor invites members of the Regent House, University and College employees, registered students and others qualified under the regulations for Discussions (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 111) to attend a Discussion by videoconference on Tuesday, 30 April 2024 at 2 p.m. The following item will be discussed:
1. Topic of concern to the University: Change to the Pro‑Vice‑Chancellorships (Reporter, 6736, 2023–24, p. 470).
Those wishing to join the Discussion by videoconference should email UniversityDraftsman@admin.cam.ac.uk from their University email account, providing their CRSid (if a member of the collegiate University), by 10 a.m. on the date of the Discussion to receive joining instructions. Alternatively contributors may email their remarks to contact@proctors.cam.ac.uk, copying ReporterEditor@admin.cam.ac.uk, by no later than 10 a.m. on the day of the Discussion for reading out by the Proctors,1 or may ask someone else who is attending to read the remarks on their behalf.
In accordance with the regulations for Discussions, the Chair of the Board of Scrutiny or any ten members of the Regent House2 may request that the Council arrange for one or more of the items listed for discussion to be discussed in person (usually in the Senate-House). Requests should be made to the Registrary, on paper or by email to UniversityDraftsman@admin.cam.ac.uk from addresses within the cam.ac.uk domain, by no later than 9 a.m. on the day of the Discussion. Any changes to the Discussion schedule will be confirmed in the Reporter at the earliest opportunity.
General information on Discussions is provided on the University Governance site at https://www.governance.cam.ac.uk/governance/decision-making/discussions/.
1Any comments sent by email should please begin with the name and title of the contributor as they wish it to be read out and include at the start a note of any College and/or Departmental affiliations held.
2https://www.scrutiny.cam.ac.uk/ and https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/regent_house_roll/.
The Vice-Chancellor reminds members of the University that a Congregation will take place on Wednesday, 19 June 2024, at 2.45 p.m., at which the Chancellor expects to preside and confer titular degrees honoris causa. The following persons were approved for these degrees by the Regent House at a Congregation held on Saturday, 23 March 2024:
Honorary Fellow and former Principal of Newnham College, Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, sometime President of the Royal College of Physicians, rheumatologist.
Sometime Visiting Fellow of Clare Hall and Honorary Visiting Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry, Clinical Professor of Health Sciences, University of California Riverside, psychiatrist and psychopharmacologist.
Tier 1 Canada Research Professor and Professor of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, University of British Columbia, neuroscientist and developmental psychologist.
Honorary Fellow of Churchill College and sometime Royal Society Professor of Chemical Biology, Dr Lee’s Professor of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and Director of the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery, University of Oxford, chemist.
Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus, The California Institute of Technology, Nobel Laureate, theoretical physicist.
Sometime Fellow of King’s College, Professor of History and Rector Emeritus, the Central European University, historian, writer and politician.
Honorary Fellow of Clare College, former Chief Conductor of Kent Opera and the London Classical Players, Emeritus Conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Salzburg Camerata, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Principal Guest Conductor of the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, pianist and conductor.
Admission will be by ticket only.
All students, alumni and staff (serving or retired) of the University and its Colleges are eligible to apply for tickets for themselves (but not for personal guests). If demand exceeds capacity, all applications received by the deadline will be balloted.
Applications should preferably be made online at: https://cam.ac.uk/HD24-Reporter
Alternatively, postal applications may be made to Honorary Degrees, The Vice-Chancellor’s Office, The Old Schools, Trinity Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1TN. The deadline for all applications is Friday, 17 May 2024. Tickets will be issued by early June and further details about the day will be included with the tickets.
Those who have queries or applicants who can no longer attend should please contact HonDegsRSVP@admin.cam.ac.uk so that their place can be offered to others. Tickets are named and not transferable.
Unless processing (see below), a ticket-holder must be seated in the Senate-House not later than 2.30 p.m. The Congregation is expected to end at about 3.35 p.m.
There will be a reception afterwards for all those attending, with cover in the event of wet weather. Attendees should be prepared to show their ticket to gain access.
Matriculated members of the University are reminded that they should wear academical dress at Congregations. Wednesday, 19 June will be a ‘Scarlet day’, so Doctors should wear their festal gowns and all graduates are requested to wear hoods if they have them. Undergraduates wear their gowns. With the exception of the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, High Steward, Deputy High Steward, Commissary, Proctors, Registrary, Esquire Bedells, Orator and Honorands, members of the University holding non-Cambridge degrees may wear the dress of those degrees on this occasion.
Provided that the weather allows, a procession will form in the Schools Arcade at 2.25 p.m. Those specified below who wish to process should state this in their application. Only holders of Cambridge Professorial Chairs (including Clinical Chairs) at Grade 12 or Cambridge Higher Doctorates (D.D., LL.D., M.D. if conferred before 2014, Med.Sc.D., Sc.D., Litt.D. or Mus.D.) are eligible to process as Professors or Doctors. Seating for the procession is limited, so a processional ticket cannot be guaranteed for every eligible applicant.
After consulting the Proctors in accordance with the relevant regulation, the Vice-Chancellor has prescribed the following order of processions before the Congregation:
The Vice-Marshal
Heads of Colleges
The Regius Professors of Divinity, Civil Law, Physic, Hebrew, Greek, History, Botany and Engineering
Professors/Clinical Professors at Grade 12 who are Doctors of Divinity, Law, Medicine (if conferred before 2014) or Medical Science, Science, Letters or Music
Doctors of Divinity, Law, Medicine (if conferred before 2014) or Medical Science, Science, Letters or Music
The Librarian
Other Professors/Clinical Professors at Grade 12 and the Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Members of the Council
The Pro-Proctors
A second procession will form and proceed immediately after the first:
The Esquire Bedells
The Chancellor
The Chancellor’s Train-bearer
The University Marshal
The Orator The Vice-Chancellor The Registrary
The Proctors
(University Constables)
The High Steward
The Deputy High Steward
The Commissary
The Pro-Vice-Chancellors
The Honorands
The Deputy Proctors
The Pro-Proctor for Ceremonial
The following Notice is published to advise the University of works which are not considered to be a ‘substantial alteration’ within the meaning of Statute F II 3 and therefore do not require a Report but are nevertheless of interest or consequence to members of the Regent House (see Reporter, 6259, 2011–12, p. 498).
The Fitzwilliam Museum is a Grade I Listed building occupying a prominent position in the heart of Cambridge city’s central conservation area. The original Founder’s Building was designed by George Basevi (1795–1845) and completed after his death by C. R. Cockerell (1788–1863) and opened to the public in 1848.
The Fitzwilliam Museum has identified a safety risk to Museum staff cycling or walking along Grove Lane, which has no designated pedestrian path and is used by vehicles accessing both the Museum and Peterhouse. To mitigate this risk, the Technical Sub‑committee of the Estates Committee has approved a minor works project to create a separate pedestrian route to Grove Lodge and other staff entrances to the Museum currently accessed via Grove Lane, as indicated in the drawing below.
The project will involve removal of a section of railings from the Grove Lodge boundary wall, formation of an opening to the brick boundary wall and installation of a gate to match the existing railings. Listed building consent and planning permission from Cambridge City Council have been granted.
The estimated cost of the work is £176,000 and will be met from the University’s Minor Works Fund. The work is expected to start on site in July 2024 and be completed during September 2024.
The Council is submitting a Grace (Grace 3, p. 504) for the approval of the dates of Full Term and of General Admission to Degrees for the ten‑year period to 2039–40. The Council has consulted the Colleges about the proposed dates and no objections have been raised.
Dates approved by Grace 4 of 6 October 2010 determined the dates for the ten‑year period to 2029–30. These new dates follow the existing pattern, with the beginning of the Michaelmas Full Term being the first Tuesday after 1 October and the Christmas and Easter vacations each being of approximately five and a half weeks. This pattern of dates means that General Admission in the years 2030–31, 2035–36 and 2036–37 will fall entirely in the first week of July.
Should any changes be necessary, for example, because of alterations in the pattern of activities nationally or in Cambridge, the Council will propose amended dates after consultation and with reasonable notice.