I was looking at a document describing setting arrangements for a ceremony and ran into the phrase:
The president of the Student Guild shall sit in the front row, with the Vice-chancellor, the Chancellor, and the Pro-Chancellor
What is a Pro-chancellor? I've never heard of one before.
In-case this is a regional term, I am at a Australian university.
Answer
A "pro-chancellor" (or similarly a "pro-rector," which we have in Germany), is a deputy to a chancellor (or rector), who handles certain duties on behalf of the chancellor (or rector). In the particular case of Commonwealth countries from which you hail, the pro-chancellor is the person who heads the university's executive council on behalf of the chancellor.
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