Evans, Gareth2018-10-102018-10-10"Maintaining Universities' raison d'etre: Meeting the challenge", Inaugural Chancellor's Oration, 11th National Conference on University Governance: The Challenge of Change for Australian Universities, University Chancellor's Council (UCC), Adelaide, 4 October 2018http://hdl.handle.net/1885/148214University chancellors in Australia are a rather unique species. Unlike our counterparts in the UK where the office evolved, and in most of those Commonwealth countries who have inherited and retained it, we have a serious role to play in university governance, chairing as we do our universities’ governing councils or senates – not just dressing up in gorgeous robes to utter sonorous banalities on grand occasions. In the UK by contrast, the chancellor – when not a television personality usually a royal, or some other long-past-it old buffer – rarely does much else.application/pdfhttp://www.gevans.org/speeches/Speech668.htmlhttp://www.gevans.org/speeches/Speech668.html