{"id":2374,"date":"2025-07-08T10:02:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T09:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/?p=2374"},"modified":"2025-07-08T10:30:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T09:30:47","slug":"chancellorship-statement-from-wyn-evans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/?p=2374","title":{"rendered":"Chancellorship Statement from Wyn Evans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I am writing to ask for your support in the election of the next Chancellor of our University of Cambridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our University needs a Chancellor who will defend its founding purpose: to serve the public good through education, learning and research of the highest quality, not by bending to the demands of branding, managerialism and market logic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am the only candidate who is a currently a University Teaching Officer. As a teacher, researcher and mentor who has worked with generations of scholars, I appreciate both the extraordinary talent we nurture and the structural problems we must confront: the tension between management priorities and academic needs; the decline in secure academic posts; and the erosion of collegiate governance. Alone among the candidates, I know what it means to teach, research, supervise and support students & staff within our University and I know it can work better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will advocate for the creation of academic jobs and proper support for postdocs, researchers and college supervisors. I will support a strategic vision for Cambridge that embraces innovation while remaining true to our academic values and global responsibilities. The hallmark of excellence is secured by the well-being of both students and staff. I will stand up for early-career researchers & fixed-term staff and for everyone who works to make our University work. I will press for the establishment of an independent Ombudsman, advocating for transparency and an end to wasteful consultancy spending.  As this is a radical re-imagining of the role of the Chancellor, it is only right that I serve only 5 years in the first instance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This election matters. I believe that the University of Cambridge is ours and that it is shaped by those who teach, learn, work and research within it. If you agree, then I would be honoured to receive your vote and to serve with dedication and integrity as Chancellor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you already registered, online voting is between Wednesday 9 July and Friday 18 July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are voting in person, the polling station will operate in the Senate House, on King\u2019s Parade, Cambridge, between 10:00 and 17:00 UK time on Saturday 12 July and on Wednesday 16 July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof Wyn Evans (https:\/\/21percent.org\/?page_id=373<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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