where universities are facing budget deficits due to factors such as tuition fee caps, rising operational costs, and fluctuations in student enrolment. Other institutions, have also announced staff reductions and course closures. The proposed cuts at Cardiff also led to protests at the Senedd, where the Welsh Government said that there was no more money available for higher education despite universities across Wales suffering financial crises and implementing job cuts and campus closures.
=== Vice chancellors and principals ===
List of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of Cardiff University and its predecessors (shown in brackets):
1883–1901 (University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire): John Viriamu Jones
1901–1918 (University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire): Ernest Howard Griffiths
1918–1929 (University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire): A.H. Trow
1929–1949 (University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire): Frederick Rees
1949–1966 (University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire): Anthony Steel
1966–1972 (University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire): C. W. L. Bevan
1972–1987 (University College Cardiff): C. W. L. Bevan
1968–1988 (University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology): Sir Aubrey Trotman-Dickenson
1988–1993: Aubrey Trotman-Dickenson
1993–2001: Brian Smith
2001–2012: David Grant
2012–2023: Colin Riordan
2023–present: Wendy Larner
== Campus ==
=== Academic facilities ===
The university's academic facilities are centred around Cathays Park in central Cardiff, which contains the university's grade II* listed main building, housing administrative facilities and the science library, previously called the Drapers' library; the grade II listed Bute building, which contains the Welsh School of Architecture, the grade I listed Glamorgan building, which houses the Cardiff Schools of Planning and Geography and Social Sciences, the Redwood Building (named in 1979 after the Redwood Family of Boverton near Llantwit Major by a 1978 suggestion by J. D. R. Thomas), …
