College Council

St Cuthbert's Society College Council is the advisory body for the college.  The role of the members of the Council is to provide knowledge and perspective and to provide support and advice to the Senior Officers (College Officers) in furthering the interests of the college within the mission and policy of the University approved by the Council and the Senate of the University.  The Council meets once per term and is chaired by Fiona Ellis, a lay member of the University Council.  The Council consists of the three College Officers (Senior Management Team): the Principal, the Vice Principal/Senior Tutor and the Bursar, together with staff and student representatives including the SCR President and the JCR President and from its departments and from external organisations.

The following information about the role of College Councils has been taken from the University website:

"Members of College Council(s) are informed that the University Council expects that in normal circumstances the College Officers (Principal, Vice Principal/Senior Tutor and Bursar) will take the lead in proposing policy, in putting forward matters for decision or on which guidance is required and in implementing agreed policy and decisions. The role of members of the College Council(s) is to provide experience and perspective and to provide support and advice to the College Officers in furthering the interests of the College within the mission and policy of the University approved by the Council and the Senate of the University.  Day to day intervention in the management of the College is not expected and would be inappropriate. Members of College Council(s) should assure themselves on the basis of the information regularly presented to them and through judicious enquiry that agreed objectives are being met and responsibilities effectively and efficiently discharged.  (The members of the College Council(s) appointed by the Council of the University have a particular duty to represent the views of the Council of the University and to ascertain them if they are not clear.)"

http://www.dur.ac.uk/committees/standing_orders/colleges/councils/