Vice-chancellor
A vice-chancellor (commonly called a VC) serves as the chief executive of a university in the United Kingdom,[1] New Zealand, Australia, Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Kenya, other Commonwealth countries, and some universities in Hong Kong.
In Scotland, Canada, and the Republic of Ireland, the chief executive of a university is usually called a principal or (especially in the Republic of Ireland) a president, with vice-chancellor being an honorific associated with this title, allowing the individual to bestow degrees in the absence of the chancellor.
An assistant to a vice-chancellor is called a pro-vice-chancellor or deputy vice-chancellor; these were traditionally academics who were elected to take on additional responsibilities in addition to their regular teaching and research for a limited time, but are now increasingly commonly full-time appointments.
In the Scottish practice, the one individual may have two sets of official robes, reflecting a continuing division of responsibilities between the two posts.
Almost all chief executives of institutions with university status in England, Wales and Northern Ireland use vice-chancellor as their title.
The vice chancellor is the executive head, and along with Registrar holds a full-time administrative office.
They approve projects, contracts, recruitments, promotions and are regarded as employer of university workers.
In Ireland, day-to-day operations of the universities are under the directorship of a president (a provost in the case of Trinity College Dublin).
Bruno Cadoré, OP, while the rector acts as the day-to-day chief executive).
The current vice chancellor of UST is the Prior Provincial of the Philippine Dominican Province, Very Rev.
The vice-chancellor (vicekansler) is also an honorary title given to the rectores magnifici at the universities of Lund and Uppsala.
The chancellor is a bishop of one of the 28 southeastern Episcopal dioceses that own the university and is elected by the members of the board of trustees.
