No 6742
Wednesday 22 May 2024
Vol cliv No 32
pp. 594–611
26 May, Sunday. Scarlet Day. Trinity Sunday. Preacher before the University at 11.30 a.m., The Revd Dr James Gardom, Dean and Chaplain, Pembroke College, and Interim Priest-in-Charge, St Bene’t’s Church (Ramsden Preacher)
28 May, Tuesday. Discussion by videoconference at 2 p.m. (see below).
8 June, Saturday. End of third 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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28 May 25 June 9 July 16 July |
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, 28 May 2024 at 2 p.m. The following items will be discussed:
1.Report of the General Board, dated 2 May 2024, on the establishment of a Professorship of Social Anthropology (Reporter, 6740, 2023–24, p. 562).
2.Topic of Concern to the University: Abolition of Forced Retirement (Reporter, 6741, 2023–24, p. 576) and Joint Report of the Council and the General Board, dated 14 May 2024, on the University’s Retirement Policy and Employer Justified Retirement Age (Reporter, 6741, 2023–24, p. 578) (see below).
3.Report of the Council, dated 14 May 2024, on a University Code of Practice on Freedom of Speech (Reporter, 6741, 2023–24, p. 587).
The Report published in this issue (p. 598) will be Discussed on 25 June.
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 Council has agreed that two items on the agenda of the Discussion on 28 May will be treated as one, so that speakers can make comments on one or both of them in their remarks. They are the Topic of concern to the University on the abolition of forced retirement and the Joint Report of the Council and the General Board on the University’s Retirement Policy and Employer Justified Retirement Age. This change will enable more speakers to make comments within the time available on 28 May, bearing in mind the need to keep to the timeline proposed for the ballot in the Report, to provide certainty for those due to retire on 30 September 2024. The Council will then publish a single response to the remarks made.