It is sixty years since the Queen’s Seal was affixed to UEA’s Royal Charter by Her Majesty Elizabeth II, giving us permission to act as a university in all its functions. Since that time, UEA has become an essential part of East Anglia’s fabric: a flourishing institution through which the region has led the world.
This Civic Charter reflects both on that last sixty years and writes a promise for the next sixty, and as the original Charter incorporated the ambition of people in the region to have a higher education institution in the City of Norwich, so this Civic Charter is the result of the sensibilities and aspirations of their descendants, literal and figurative, offered in open and honest fashion, for the future role of UEA as a civic institution with fundamental responsibility to its communities.