VC appointed a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Huddersfield, Professor Bob Cryan CBE, has been made a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute for his distinguished career.
Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:05:00 GMT
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The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Huddersfield, Professor Bob Cryan CBE, has received esteemed recognition for his distinguished career by being made a ‘Companion’ of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI).
Professor Cryan was invited to become a Companion of the CMI because of his substantive record in management and leadership and he will be joining an exclusive network of the country’s most senior and reputed business leaders.
The Chartered Management Institute is an accredited professional institution for management based in the United Kingdom. The major membership classes are Member, Fellow – for those with significant expertise – and regarded most highly is Companion – the most senior grade.
Sharyn Coleman, Regional Chair for North East Yorkshire and Humber (NEYH), came to the University to present Professor Cryan with the CMI Companionsip.
She said: “It gives me great pleasure to present this honour to Professor Bob Cryan. A great achievement for Bob and his team. We are looking forward to continuing our work together with the University.”
Professor Bob Cryan CBE
Pictured left: Professor Cryan is presented the Companionship by Sharyn Coleman.
Professor Cryan was appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University of Huddersfield in 2007, at the age of 42, he was the youngest vice-chancellor of a UK university. He leads a university which combines internationally-recognised research with outstanding teaching quality.
Professor Cryan has focused the University on being an inspiring, innovative institution of international renown and under his leadership Huddersfield has become the only university where all academic staff are Fellows of the Higher Education Academy.
Over the last 5 years, the University’s staff have been awarded the highest number of the highly-competitive National Teaching Fellowships for excellence in teaching. It has moved into the top 10 for graduate employability; doubled research income; tripled the number of postgraduate researchers and tripled the number of international students such that there are now over 110 countries represented on campus.
All this has been achieved at the same time as paying off all long-term borrowings and moving the institution to the number one spot for financial security amongst mainstream universities. However, investment hasn’t stopped with over half the University estate either newly-built or refurbished such that it is now in the top 10 for the quality of its buildings.
The University itself has received external recognition for these successes. In 2012, it was named as the Times Higher Education magazine’s Entrepreneurial University of the Year and a year later it received two prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise and was named the University of the Year.
Professor Cryan himself received the inaugural Inspiring University Leader Award by The Guardian newspaper and he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to higher education.
On receiving his CMI Companionship, Professor Cryan said: “I am deeply grateful to receive this award, not least because it comes from an organisation, the Chartered Management Institute – that I hold in great esteem.
“The CMI and our University share a great deal of philosophy. In particular, we both believe in the importance of highly-qualified managers to ensure the vitality of UK industry.
“By fostering managerial skills and by encouraging entrepreneurialism in our students, we are doing our best to aid the economic regeneration of the region and therefore we have shared goals with the Yorkshire and Humber region of the CMI. I hope that the Companionship, that I am grateful to receive, will lead to new levels of collaboration.”
