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Position Specification Christ’S College, University of Cambridge Master Position Specification Christ’s College, University of Cambridge Master Private and Confidential March 2021 Position Specification Ref: Master Christ’s College, Cambridge Christ’s College, University of Cambridge Introduction Thank you for your interest in the role of Master of Christ’s College, Cambridge. The College is seeking to elect a Master to succeed Professor Jane Stapleton, who became the College’s 38th Master on 1st September 2016. Jane’s tenure comes to an end in August 2022, and the Fellows of the College hope to pre-elect a new Master in late 2021 in the expectation that they will take up the post following her retirement. About the College The primary aim of the College, as an independent foundation within a collegiate university, is the provision of education leading to degrees awarded by the University of Cambridge. Christ’s provides a friendly, supportive, and diverse community in which students achieve exceptional academic standards, and also supports research by Fellows and students. The College creates public benefit in these ways, for both individual members and more broadly for society. While excellence in scholarship is especially prized at Christ’s, all members are encouraged to explore a wide range of other interests, and numerous extra-curricular activities flourish: sport, music, drama and films, debating, and many more. The College is small enough to be friendly and personal, yet large enough for all members to be able to find others with interests to match their own. The 500-year-old College site contains much that is uniquely important in the nation’s architectural heritage. The College maintains these buildings and gardens, and allows public access to the gardens for most of the year. The benefits afforded by collegiate life in the Cambridge system lie in the interactions fostered within a relatively small but diverse community – both academically, across disciplines, and also socially, between students and Fellows (who are leading scholars and researchers 1 of 9 Position Specification Ref: Master Christ’s College, Cambridge in their fields). A high proportion of students live in or close by the College, take meals in College and participate in College clubs, societies, and sporting activities; some Fellows are resident in College, and many are present in College during the day in term time, to teach, to participate in College business or because it is their base from which to carry out research. The drop-out rate among the College’s undergraduates is extremely low compared to the national average. This is attributed to the care taken in the selection of undergraduates for admission, the provision of pastoral care, the attention paid to teaching in small groups (supervisions), the steps taken to monitor each individual student’s progress, and the financial support available through bursaries in cases of hardship. The academic progress of graduate students reading for higher degrees is primarily the responsibility of the faculty or department of the University in which they work. The College provides considerable other support for these students: pastoral care, residential accommodation for many in College flats or houses, opportunities for social and sporting activities and interactions with the Fellowship, access to research and travel grants, and other financial assistance. History of the College Christ’s College was first established as God's House in 1437 by William Byngham, a London parish priest, for training grammar school masters. Shortly after receiving its Royal Licence from Henry VI in 1446, God’s House was forced to move from its original site as this was needed for the King’s new project (what was to become King's College). God’s House moved to its present site in 1448 and in the same year received a second Royal Licence. This licence may be regarded as the Foundation Charter. Following the death of her third husband, and the accession of her son as King Henry VII, the Lady Margaret Beaufort turned her energies to good causes. No doubt at the suggestion of her confessor, Bishop John Fisher, she decided to enlarge God’s House. In 1505, with a royal charter from the King, the College was re-founded as Christ’s College. Lady Margaret has been honoured ever since as the Foundress. Surviving the twists and turns of the Reformation, Christ’s became one of the leading Puritan colleges of Elizabethan Cambridge. In 1625 it admitted the young John Milton, who would become a leading Puritan apologist of the Civil War and one of the greats of English literature. The Garden still boasts what is known as ‘Milton’s Mulberry Tree’. The boom in student numbers in the 17th century required new accommodation, beyond the original College, around what is now ‘First Court’. The result was the beautiful Fellows’ Building, built in the early 1640s after an appeal to Fellows and Old Members. This raised some five million pounds in today’s money and we still have the list of donors. Over the next century or so, Christ’s was noted for several eminent scholars who sought to harmonise traditional Christian faith with the new truths of natural science. These included Cambridge Platonists such as Ralph Cudworth, and William Paley, whose Evidences of Christianity (1794) remained set reading in Cambridge until the 20th century. But Paley’s synthesis of religion and science was soon to be overturned by another Christ’s student – Charles Darwin, who arrived in 1828, and lived in Paley’s old rooms in First Court. On the Origin of 2 of 9 Position Specification Ref: Master Christ’s College, Cambridge Species was published some 30 years later, but the young Darwin’s interest in botany and geology was nurtured at Christ’s. Like the rest of Cambridge, life at Christ’s was transformed by the Victorians, with more rigorous exams, the rise of experimental science and the opening of the University to non-Anglicans. The first half of the 20th century was scarred by two world wars, whose effect is movingly commemorated on the plaque in the Chapel. After 1945, Christ’s shared in the general boom in higher education, with new blocks to complete Third Court and then New Court designed by Sir Denys Lasdun. Among its intellectual dynamos were Lord Todd, the Nobel prize-winning chemist; James Meade, a Nobel laureate in economics; and Sir John Plumb, the celebrated historian. This is only a taste of the College’s past. Those with bigger appetites should consult the quincentenary history edited by David Reynolds, Christ’s: A Cambridge College over Five Centuries (Macmillan, 2004) with contributions from distinguished Christ’s historians such as Simon Schama, Quentin Skinner, Roy Porter and David Cannadine. Further information on life at Christ’s can be obtained from the following short videos: Christ’s College Video – Christ’s College (cam.ac.uk) Christ’s College Students Q&A - YouTube 3 of 9 Position Specification Ref: Master Christ’s College, Cambridge Access and Outreach The College commits significant resources to various outreach activities designed to encourage undergraduate applications by able candidates from all backgrounds and schools. This supports the University’s Access and Participation plan, which has been agreed with the Office for Students. We measure inter alia the proportion of UK undergraduates admitted from maintained schools and from underrepresented backgrounds. Financial aid is also provided to students. The College typically provides access bursaries, awarded on the assessment of financial need, for over 25% of UK/EU undergraduates and over 100 scholarships and prizes, awarded on performance in University examinations. The College also offers studentships and grants towards travel and research expenses for academic purposes. Bridging Course The Bridging Course is a new initiative for incoming students, in collaboration with King’s College and Gonville & Caius College. Designed for individuals who have demonstrated their potential at interview, but have been held back due to background factors, the course’s aim is to get these students feeling confident and prepared to begin their degree. Participants experience a series of lectures and supervisions, to get them used to the teaching style, alongside sessions on topics such as ‘Dealing with Cambridge’, and are supported by an undergraduate mentor. It also includes more social aspects too, from helping students find their way to departments, to tours of Cambridge, including the Master’s Garden. Research Activities The College provides a variety of financial support to Fellows and students for research, with a number receiving recognition of their achievements during the last academic year, including two current Fellows elected in July 2020 as Fellows of the British Academy. The College also provides Fellowships for early career academics, both as Junior Research Fellows and as College Teaching Officers. In 2019/20 there were in total 16 such Fellows, including two on leave, and five new elections were made during the year. College Governance Christ’s College is a self-governing corporate body, established by royal charter. The College is a registered charity and subject to regulation by the Charity Commission for England and Wales. The Statutes & Ordinances govern the activities of the College. The Governing Body comprises the Fellows of the College, a list of whom is published on the College website. Undergraduate and postgraduate student representatives are also co-opted members of the Governing Body. The members of the College Council are the charity trustees and are responsible for ensuring compliance with charity law. The College Council is responsible for oversight of the management of 4 of 9 Position Specification Ref: Master Christ’s College, Cambridge the assets, income, expenditure and educational business of the College, in accordance with the directions and subject to the limitations laid down in the College statutes.
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