Notices by the General Board

Language Centre: Committee of Management

With effect from 1 June 2024

The General Board, on the recommendation of the Council of the School of Arts and Humanities, has approved amendments to the membership of the Language Centre Committee of Management. These changes remove the existing class (b) for the Director of the Language Centre (the Director will continue to attend meetings), add a new class (c) for one person appointed by the General Board after consultation with the Academic Secretary, and set limits on the periods of appointment in certain classes.

Regulation 1 of the General Board Regulations for the Committee of Management (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 659) has been amended to read as follows:

1. The Language Centre shall be under the general control of a Committee of Management, which shall consist of:

(a)one person appointed by the General Board who shall be Chair, provided that the General Board shall have power to appoint as Chair a person who is already a member of the Committee in one of classes (b), (c), (d), and (f);

(b)two persons appointed by the Council of the School of Arts and Humanities; and five persons appointed by the General Board after consultation with the Council of the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Council of the School of the Biological Sciences, the Council of the School of Clinical Medicine, the Council of the School of the Physical Sciences, and the Council of the School of Technology;

(c)one person appointed by the General Board after consultation with the Academic Secretary;^[1]

(d)one person appointed by the Senior Tutors’ Committee;

(e)one registered student, appointed by the University of Cambridge Students’ Union;

(f)not more than two persons co-opted at the discretion of the Committee.

Members in classes (a), (b) and (d) shall be appointed in the Michaelmas Term to serve for a period of four years from 1 January following their appointment and shall be eligible for reappointment for one further consecutive period of four years. No member in classes (a), (b) and (d) may serve for more than two full periods of appointment, whether consecutively or otherwise. Members in class (e) shall be appointed in the Easter Term to serve for the academic year following their appointment. Members in class (f) shall serve until 31 December of the year in which they are co-opted.

The Director of the Language Centre shall attend meetings of the Committee.

^[1] The General Board, after consulting with the Academic Secretary, has agreed that this will be the School of Arts and Humanities’ Education Quality and Policy Office Liaison Officer until further notice.

Professorship of Mechanical Engineering (1997)

The General Board has been informed by the Board of Electors to the Professorship of Mechanical Engineering (1997) that they have been unable to make an election to this Professorship. Under the provisions of Special Ordinance C (vii) B. 20(a)(ii) (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 85) the Board has discontinued the Professorship until 31 July 2024.