{"id":2068,"date":"2025-05-28T22:50:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T21:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/?p=2068"},"modified":"2025-05-28T23:01:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T22:01:54","slug":"confetti-and-the-chancellorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/?p=2068","title":{"rendered":"Confetti and the Chancellorship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"659\" src=\"https:\/\/21percent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-28-at-21.52.57-1024x659.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/21percent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-28-at-21.52.57-1024x659.png 1024w, https:\/\/21percent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-28-at-21.52.57-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/21percent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-28-at-21.52.57-768x494.png 768w, https:\/\/21percent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-28-at-21.52.57.png 1190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The candidates for the Chancellorship of Cambridge University have now been announced. They are Dr Ayham Ammora, Mr Ali Azeem, Mr Tony Booth, Lord (John) Browne, Dr Mohamed El-Erian, Dr Mark Mann, Mrs Gina Miller, Lord (Chris) Smith and Ms Sandi Toksvig as well as myself (Professor Wyn Evans).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are listed<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cam.ac.uk\/about-the-university\/how-the-university-and-colleges-work\/people\/chancellor\/election-of-the-next-chancellor\/the-candidates\" title=\" here\"> here<\/a> with their personal statements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we can put together an alliance of everyone who is left out of decision-making in our universities, we can bring about real change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Cambridge, those who are left out comprise &gt; 99 % of the university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They include early career researchers fearful that there may be no academic future for them; those on fixed-term contracts who make up about two-thirds of the university but have limited pay, conditions and promotion prospects; marginalized groups (based on race, gender, disability); overworked mid and senior faculty grappling with unresponsive central management;  retired faculty and staff who often have no official place in committees or governance bodies. as well as communities surrounding the university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Cambridge, real power is wielded by a tiny elite; the Vice Chancellor, the pro-Vice Chancellors, the Registrary, the Academic Secretary, the HR Director, the Heads of School and the Heads of Houses. They have a chokehold on power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We need to remove power from the centre and return it to the academics, so that Cambridge University can become again what it once was, a self-governing community of scholars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us make this election<strong> <\/strong>into an extraordinary and laudable affirmation of the principle of academic self-governance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a useful byproduct, this will ensure that the University\u2019s administrators will be induced to interact with the University\u2019s academics less haughtily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This statement is from Wyn Evans, a candidate for the Chancellorship of Cambridge University.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The candidates for the Chancellorship of Cambridge University have now been announced. They are Dr Ayham Ammora, Mr Ali Azeem, Mr Tony Booth, Lord (John) Browne, Dr Mohamed El-Erian, Dr Mark Mann, Mrs Gina Miller, Lord (Chris) Smith and Ms Sandi Toksvig as well as myself (Professor Wyn Evans). 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