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CONGREGATION 10 February 2 p.m.

¶ Members of Congregation are reminded that written notice of any proposed amendment to, or intention to vote against, the enacting part of the statute at item 1 below, or of any intention to vote against the preamble of the statute at item 2 below, or the resolutions at items 3, 4, and 5 below, signed in each case by at least two members of Congregation, must be given to the Registrar by noon on Monday, 2 February.

2 Promulgation of Statute

Statute: Establishment of second Professorship of Economics in place of the Directorship of the Institute of Economics and Statistics

Explanatory note

The following statute, and the decree to be made by Council if the statute is approved, which are promoted on the recommendation of the Social Studies Board and with the concurrence of the General Board, abolish the Directorship of the Institute of Economics and Statistics with effect from 1 October 1998 upon the resignation of Professor S.J. Nickell, and establish a second Professorship of Economics from that date. Consequential changes in the existing legislation governing the institute will be made in due course.

WHEREAS it is expedient to establish a second Professorship of Economics in place of the Directorship of the Institute of Economics and Statistics, THE UNIVERSITY ENACTS AS FOLLOWS.

1 In Tit. XIV, Sect. II, cl. 1 (Statutes, 1997, p. 108), delete `Professorship of Economics' and substitute:

`Professorships (two) of Economics'.

2 This statute shall be effective from 1 October 1998.

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Decree to be made by Council if the Statute is approved

1 In Ch. II, Sect. VI, § 1, SCHEDULE, concerning official members of faculty boards (Statutes, 1997, p. 246), under Social Studies, after `Economics' insert `(two)'.

2 In Ch. VII, Sect. I, § 5. B, SCHEDULE A, concerning professorships (p. 391), delete

`Professor of Economics' and substitute:

`Professors (two) of Economics'.

3 Ibid., Sect. III, § 61, title, concerning the Professor of Economics (p. 424), delete `Professor' and substitute `Professors'.

4 Ibid., cl. 1, delete `The Professor of Economics' and substitute `There shall be two Professors of Economics, each of whom'.

5 Ibid., cl. 2, after `The' insert

`first'.

6 Ibid., insert new cl. 3 as follows and renumber existing cl. 3 as cl. 4:

`3. The second professor shall be elected by an electoral board consisting of:

(1) the Vice-Chancellor, or, if the head of the college specified in (2) of this clause is Vice-Chancellor, a person appointed by Council;

(2) the head of the college to which the professorship shall be for the time being allocated by Council under any decree in that behalf, or, if the head is unable or unwilling to act, a person appointed by the governing body of the college;

(3) a person appointed by the governing body of the college specified in (2) of this clause;

(4) a person appointed by Council;

(5), (6) two persons appointed by the General Board;

(7)--(9) three persons appointed by the Board of the Faculty of Social Studies.'

7 Ibid., cl. 4 as renumbered, delete `The' and substitute `Each'.

8 Ibid., delete `this chair' and substitute `these chairs'.

9 Ibid., Sect. VII, § 1, SCHEDULE, item (d), concerning the holding of fellowships (p. 536), delete `Director of the Institute of Economics and Statistics'.

10 This decree shall be effective from 1 October 1998.

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4 Voting on further Special Resolutions approving the conferment of Honorary Degrees

(1) That the conferment of the Degree of Doctor of Civil Law, honoris causa, upon PROFESSOR RICHARD CHARLES LEVIN, B.LITT. (BA Stanford; PH.D. Yale), Honorary Fellow of Merton College, President of Yale University, be approved.

(2) That the conferment of the Degree of Doctor of Civil Law, honoris causa, upon PROFESSOR NEIL LEON RUDENSTINE, MA (BA Princeton; PH.D. Harvard), Honorary Fellow of New College, President of Harvard University, be approved.

¶ If the Special Resolutions are approved, the honorary degrees will be conferred at a ceremony on a date to be announced.

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5 Voting on Special Resolution authorising expenditure from the Higher Studies Fund

That the Curators of the University Chest be authorised to expend from that part of the Higher Studies Fund which is earmarked for Social Studies such sum, initially estimated at £80K, as is necessary to cover the cost of an Assistant Curator's post in the Pitt Rivers Museum for a period of three years.