General Council meeting - Saturday 30 November 2024

Members of the General Council are called to a statutory half-yearly meeting on

Saturday 30 November 2024 at 10.30am

Location: Parliament Hall, South Street, St Andrews

The Chancellor, The Rt Hon Lord Campbell of Pittenweem CH CBE PC KC FRSE, will preside.

Agenda

  1. Minute of the last ordinary half-yearly meeting of the General Council held on 15 June 2024
  2. Report from the Business Committee – Revd Matthew Lawson, Convener of the General Council Business Committee
  3. University Address – Professor Dame Sally Mapstone FRSE, Principal and Vice-Chancellor
  4. Presentation on ‘Making Waves: The Campaign for St Andrews’ by Robert Fleming, Director of Development
  5. Any Other Competent Business

Benediction: Revd Giles Dove, University Assistant Chaplain

Next statutory meeting

The next statutory meeting of the General Council will be held on Saturday 28 June 2025 at 10.30am in Parliament Hall, St Andrews.

Leadership

President

The Rt Hon Lord Campbell of Pittenweem CH CBE PC KC FRSE, Chancellor

General Council assessors to the University Court

  • Jonathan Hewitt (until 31 July 2027)
  • Iain Anderson (until 31 July 2028)

Business Committee

Convener: Revd Matthew Lawson (until 31 July 2025)

Ex-officio members:

  • The Principal
  • The Chancellor’s Assessor (Alison Johns until 31 July 2028)
  • The General Council Assessors to the University Court – see above

Elected members (until 31 July 2025)

  • Revd Matthew Lawson (Convener)
  • John Edward
  • Callum MacLeod
  • Dr Ralitza Nikolaeva
  • Lauren Stewart

Registrar and Clerk to the General Council

Alastair Merrill, Vice-Principal (Governance)

Useful links

Listed below are a number of General Council and University webpages that may be of interest to General Council members.

Agenda item details

Agenda item 1

The minute of the last ordinary half-yearly meeting of the General Council held on 15 June 2024 can be found on the minutes page of the General Council website:

General Council meeting minutes

Agenda item 2

Report by the Registrar and Clerk to the General Council, Alastair Merrill.

The minutes of previous Business Committee meetings can be found on the minutes page of the General Council website:

Business Committee meeting minutes

Agenda item 3

University Address by Professor Dame Sally Mapstone FRSE, Principal and Vice-Chancellor

There will be an opportunity for questions following the address.

Agenda item 4

Presentation on ‘Making Waves’ Campaign by Robert Fleming, Director of Development

Making Waves: The Campaign for St Andrews has been established to help enhance our status as a world-leading, diverse, digital, sustainable and entrepreneurial centre of learning, teaching and research. Launched publicly in September 2024, this Campaign aims to raise £300m to create opportunities through scholarships, to create a new home for Computer Science, to invest in our world-class academics and to build the first new college in St Andrews in more than 300 years. We invite you to join us on this quest.

Members will have an opportunity to ask questions from the floor following the presentation.

Agenda item 5

Any Other Competent Business

Opening prayer

Oremus
Omnipotens et aeterne Deus:
Actiones nostras omnes aspirando praeveni
Et adiuvando prosequere;
Ut cuncta nostra operatio,
Et praesertim hoc quod nunc adgredimur opus,
A te incipiat
Et per te coeptum finiatur;
Quatenus sanctum nomen tuum glorificemus,
Et misericordia tua vitam aeternam consequamur
Per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum.
Amen

Let us pray
Almighty and eternal God:
Prepare all our doings by your spirit
And further them by your help;
That all our work,
And especially this task which we now undertake,
May be begun from you
And through you reach its completion;
That we may glorify your holy name,
And by your mercy obtain eternal life
Through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen

Closing prayer

Gratia domini nostri Jesu Christi
Et caritas Dei
Et communicatio Spiritus Sancti
Sit cum omnibus nobis
In saecula saeculorum.
Amen

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ
And the love of God
And the communion of the Holy Spirit
Be with us all
For ever and ever.
Amen