Commission of Inquiry Town Hall Meeting, Wednesday 16th October 2019

The Town Hall will be held on Wednesday 16 October from 2-4pm in the Cruciform Building B304 Lecture Theatre 1. There is no advance booking for the event. We look forward to seeing you there. The Commission of Inquiry (CoI) was established by Academic Board to review the problems reported in UCL's governance, decision-making and strategic direction, and to establish their accuracy and causes and, where necessary, to make recommendations for Academic Board to approve a way forward, addressing any problems in the light of academic values and UCL's academic mission, and in the spirit of transparency and accountability to the academic body. The focus of the CoI includes: a) the centralisation of UCL decision-making on matters that affect academic work and its effect on this; - b) the way that the delegated powers of Academic Board have/are being reported and used by other committees and bodies; - c) the current role of academic input into the appointment of Heads of Department, Deans and Vice Provosts, and how these relate to their constituencies; - d) the position of the Senior Management Team in relation to other UCL committees and academic input into its decisions; - e) the structure and composition of key UCL Governance-Level Committees, especially as regards academic representation and input into their decision-making processes and regards transparency and accountability of their decisions. It is with these aims in mind that the CoI welcomed the Decision by the Visitor, circulated to all members of Academic Board by the Provost on 18 April 2019.