Vice-Chancellor, we invite you to address the University.
Colleagues, students, alumni By tradition, the Vice-Chancellor addresses the University from the Senate House to mark the beginning of the academic year.
It is just three months since I stood in this very place to address the University on the occasion of my admission to the office of Vice-Chancellor.
Rather soon for another speech, you may be thinking.
I view this annual ritual as one of the great privileges of my office.
It gives me the opportunity to speak directly to all Collegiate Cambridge about the State of the University and the important issues and decisions that face us going forward.
It is my address – my bully pulpit as one might say in the United States, my soap box as one might say in the UK – and therefore the views expressed are my own.
But ideally, these October addresses will punctuate an ongoing conversation with all of you about how we can best realise Cambridge's mission.
I want to talk today about my evolving understanding of the Collegiate University and how it works.
This understanding comes from six months of getting to know the place, and it is just the beginning of what I expect to be an ongoing quest.
