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Chancellerie des Universités de Paris

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Chancellery of the Universities of Paris
Chancellerie des Universités de Paris


Entrance to the Chancellery Academic Palace, on the rue des Écoles side of the Sorbonne.
Other name
La Sorbonne, the Universities of Paris
MottoHic et ubique terrarum (Latin)
Motto in English
Here and anywhere on Earth
TypePublic university system
Established1215; 809 years ago (1215), 1971; 53 years ago (1971)
Parent institution
Ministry of Higher Education
ChancellorBernard Beignier[1]
Students300,000[2]
Location
Sorbonne, 47 rue des Écoles, Paris, France

48°50′55″N 2°20′37″E / 48.848611°N 2.343611°E / 48.848611; 2.343611
CampusUrban
Sporting affiliations
Paris Université Club
Websitewww.sorbonne.fr

The Chancellerie des Universités de Paris is the public institution under the French Ministry of Higher Education that inherited the administration of the assets of the University of Paris, which was split into thirteen autonomous universities in 1971. It administers the Sorbonne, the Villa Finaly in Italy, the Château de Ferrières (until 2012), the Domaine de Richelieu in Indre-et-Loire,[3] the Jacques Doucet Library and other assets bequeathed to the former University of Paris. The chancellery also represents the eleven universities that own the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris. The Sorbonne building and The Sorbonne brand name are owned by the chancellery. It also manages the official store of the Sorbonne and the universities of Paris.[4]

The chancellery was created in 1971 after the Faure law of 1968, which dismembered the University of Paris, at the same time as the university chancelleries in the other academies. Since 2021, it has been the only remaining chancellery in France, the others having been dissolved.[5]

Its headquarters are located at the Sorbonne, which it administers on behalf of the universities Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Sorbonne University and Sorbonne Nouvelle.

Mission

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In France, the chancellor (chancelier) is one of the titles of the rector (recteur), a senior civil servant of the Ministry of Education serving as manager of a regional educational district (académie). In his capacity as chancellor, the rector awards academic degrees to the university's graduates, oversees the legality of the universities' executive acts and channels funding from the ministry.[citation needed] The rector has no executive function in any university but remains a member ex officio of the board of every public university in his district.[citation needed]

The chancellery assists the rector-chancellor in managing the various universities in Paris. It is responsible for a posteriori control of the actions of Parisian universities, as well as those of the Paris inter-university libraries, particularly with regard to state investments. Following the transition to autonomy for Parisian universities, which relinquished responsibility for managing university staff, its main day-to-day mission is to manage the property of Parisian universities, in particular their joint and undivided assets.

Because of the special situation of the Île-de-France region, the Chancellerie des Universités de Paris has a jurisdiction that can extend beyond the city of Paris alone, to encompass the region's seventeen universities in certain cases. The Minister responsible may also, by decree, entrust the Chancellery with the management of the assets of other Grandes Écoles and universities, which constitutes an exception to the rule.

The thirteen universities of Paris, now numbering eleven after mergers:

Location

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By royal decree of May 16, 1821, the headquarters of the rectorate of the Académie de Paris was established in perpetuity on the premises of the Sorbonne. When the Sorbonne was rebuilt at the end of the 19th century, the rector-chancellor was given luxurious premises in the north of the building, known as the Palais Académique (English: the Academic Palace). Since its creation following the dismemberment of the University of Paris, the chancellery's services have occupied the entire Sorbonne's Palais Académique, offices in various other parts of the building, and numerous other buildings in the city of Paris. The chancellery regularly uses the Sorbonne Grand Amphithéâtre for events, official ceremonies and awards ceremonies.[8]

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See also

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Further reading

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  • Caroline Chamard-Heim (2014). "La Chancellerie des universités de Paris". La Semaine juridique - Administrations et collectivités territoriales. LexisNexis: 4.
  • Marie-Claude Delmas (2016), "De l'Université de Paris à la chancellerie des universités de Paris : Le rôle de Pierre Bartoli, 1951–1978", dans Florence Bourillon, Éléonore Marantz, Stéphanie Méchine and Loïc Vadelorge, De l'Université de Paris aux universités d'Île-de-France, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, coll. "Histoire", 353 p. (ISBN 978-2-7535-4291-4), p. 123–141

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