No 6805
Wednesday 26 November 2025
Vol clvi No 10
pp. 123–127
29 November, Saturday. End of third quarter of Michaelmas Term. Congregation of the Regent House at 10 a.m.
3 December, Wednesday. Ballot of the Regent House, voting closes at 5 p.m.
5 December, Friday. Full Term ends.
9 December, Tuesday. Discussion by videoconference at 2 p.m. (see below).
17 December, Wednesday. Last ordinary issue of the Reporter in Michaelmas Term.
19 December, Friday. Michaelmas Term ends.
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Discussions (Tuesdays at 2 p.m.) |
Congregations (at 10 a.m. unless otherwise stated) |
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9 December |
29 November |
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, 9 December 2025 at 2 p.m. The following items will be discussed:
1. Joint Report of the Council and the General Board, dated 19 November 2025, on exchanges of Professorships (Reporter, 6804, 2025–26, p. 118).
2. Report of the Council, dated 19 November 2025, on removal of the membership of the University Centre (Reporter, 6804, 2025–26, p. 119).
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.
For general information on Discussions see the Reporter website at https://www.reporter.admin.cam.ac.uk/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 gives notice that she has accepted with gratitude a philanthropic grant from Cambridge in America of $7,243,012 USD, payable over five years, following a donation from Charles Butt Philanthropies, to establish a Clinical Professorship of Cognitive Neurology at the School of Clinical Medicine. The Council is submitting a Grace (Grace 1, p. 125) for the approval of regulations to govern the Elisabeth Chenevix Trench Professor of Cognitive Neurology Fund.
The Director of Governance and Compliance has received the following nomination for the Council’s Finance Committee, for election in class (b) (by the representatives of the Colleges), and it has been certified to her that the candidate has consented to be nominated:
Mr Per
Reiff-Musgrove, CLH
nominated by: Dr R. Anthony,
JE, and Mr T. Harvey-Samuel, TH
No other candidates having been nominated, Mr Reiff-Musgrove is duly elected to serve as a member of the Finance Committee in class (b) for three years from 1 January 2026.
The following two ballots and an election to the Board of Scrutiny are currently open for voting by members of the Regent House:
•Election to the Board of Scrutiny in class (c)(ii)
Voting closes at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 3 December 2025 and those listed on the Roll of the Regent House promulgated on 6 November 20251 are eligible to vote. Voting information and links to the voting portal are available on the Regent House site at https://universityofcambridgecloud.sharepoint.com/sites/RegentHouse/SitePages/votes-nov2025.aspx (University account required).