Nominations invited for Chancellor

Senate Executive invites nominations from the university community for Trent's eighth Chancellor to succeed Ambassador Mary Simon who retires from that position June 30. She has served for four years.

Simon is Canada's first Inuit ambassador for circumpolar affairs.

Previous Trent Chancellors include Leslie Frost, Eugene Forsey, William Morton, Margaret Laurence, John J. Robinette and Kenneth Hare.

The Chancellor's office is normally for three years, and is renewable. The Chancellor confers all degrees and diplomas at Convocation, sits as an ex officio member on the Board of Governors and Senate, chairs the Senate Committee on University Honours and represents the university occasionally in an official capacity at external functions.

Nominations including full biographical and supporting documentation must be submitted by 5 p.m. March 29 in confidence to Dianne Choate, Secretary of Senate, on forms available from the University Secretariat, Bata Library. Phone 748-1410, e-mail dchoate@trentu.ca or check the Web site.

The nominee should not be told that she or he has been nominated. Senate Executive will consider nominations in confidence and a name will be recommended to Senate in closed session.