{"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
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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

They are listed here<\/a> with their personal statements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

In Cambridge, those who are left out comprise > 99 % of the university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

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

Let us make this election <\/strong>into an extraordinary and laudable affirmation of the principle of academic self-governance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

This statement is from Wyn Evans, a candidate for the Chancellorship of Cambridge University.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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