27 September 2002 Minutes

MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SCRUTINY ON 14/03/02

MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SCRUTINY ON 27/09/02

The last meeting of theBoard in the Academical Year 2001-2 was held at 12.00 on Thursday, 27 September2002 in the West Lodge, Downing College.

Members Present. Dr S.E.Lintott (Chairman), Dr D.J. Chivers, Prof. J.R. Spencer, Mr T. N. Milner, Dr O.Rackham, Mr JD McDonald, Dr H.E. Thompson, Mr D.R. Howarth, Dr R.H. Lachmann,Dr C Forsyth and Dr E. Leedham-Green.

Apologies were received fromDr V.E. Izzet, Dr S.J. Cowley and Mrs J.M. Rigby

1)The Chairman welcomedthe new members of the Board.

2)The minutes of themeeting of 1 July were approved.

3)Matters arising: TheChairman reported that the process of identifying the next Vice chancellor wasproceeding.

4)Matters to report: TheChairman reported that the executive council is considering its legal positionconcerning CAPSA. The Board felt that this was an example of a situation wherethe University might have benefited from having its own in house lawyers.

5)Provisional election ofChairman for 2002-2003:Dr Lintottnominated Prof Spencer to be the new Chairman of the Board.The nomination was seconded by DrLachmann.There was a vote and ProfSpencer was provisionally elected unanimously.

6)Provisional election ofSecretary for 2002:2003: Dr Lachmann nominated Dr Cowley to be the newSecretary of the Board.The nominationwas seconded by Dr Lintott.There was avote and Dr Cowley was provisionally elected unanimously.

7)The Board thanked DrLintott for her excellent work as Chairman of the Board.Thanks were also expressed to Mr Milner andDr Lachmann for their respective contributions as Secretary.

8)The Seventh Report:This will be discussed at the next meeting of the Board.

9)Clerical support:The Chairman reported that money was in factavailable for this post.It was decidedto draft an advert to go into the Reporter.

10)Possible subjects for scrutiny:

a)Dr Howarth suggestedthat the Board should investigate what performance management procedures theUniversity has in place to ensure that its policies are implemented.

b)The Board as a wholefelt that it would be important to continue to focus on the University’sfinances.The continuing expansionseems to be of particular concern and it was suggested that the English facultyand 307 Huntingdon Road might be particularly suitable projects for scrutiny.

c)The University’s newpolicy on IPR is also likely to generate much debate within the University inthe coming year and the Board should keep abreast of this.

11)The nextmeeting will take place on Thursday 10 October, 2002.