Founded 1977 by Sir David Robinson. Sister College – St Catherine’s College Oxford. Men and Women – Undergraduates 386 Postgraduates 172.
A huge donation of £17 million from Sir David Robinson, followed by a further £1 million on official opening in 1977, ensured Robinson College got off to a flying start. It is the only undergraduate college in the university that from inception admitted both male and female students.
Today it is home to 172 postgraduates and around 386 undergraduates in a split that favours men by some 20%. Just over half of the home students originate from state schools in a diverse and relaxed community. The college offers an intellectually inspiring and forward thinking environment for academic high flyers. Robinson is seen as being less formal than most Cambridge colleges, only keeping traditions it feels comfortable with – it indulges a Formal Hall. Politically Robinson is viewed as gently liberal verging on apathetic, which is not entirely true as many students are actively engaged in university politics. Nick Clegg leader of the Liberal Democrats was a Robinson man. The college is situated in 12.5 acres next door to the University Rugby Club on Grange Road about a 10-minute walk west of the city centre.
Disenchanted with academics
David Robinson was a Cambridge man, educated at a state school, who made his fortune in radio and television rentals. In 1962 his Bedford based company of Robinson Rentals was making £1.5 million a year. An astute and forceful businessmen, Robinson gave most of his money away, including funding for the Cambridge Maternity Hospital, the Rosie, named after his mother. He championed efficient and focused business practices and despite being disenchanted with academics, he founded...
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... facilities for musicians with practice rooms and opportunities to take part in musical events. The sporting teams focus on inclusion rather than achievement. The food in hall is considered some of the best in the university with desserts being a particular speciality.
Expanding and ambitious
The college continues to thrive with new building work recently completed on the adjoining Sellenger Site, providing 48 new study bedrooms in an energy efficient structure. The buildings are surprisingly uncollegiate, offering instead a modern domestic block of red brick flats that might be found in a leafy residential suburb, which is exactly where they are.
The strategy of this ambitious institution is that in order to be a leading Cambridge college, the best minds must be attracted regardless of background and social status and housed in first class affordable accommodation.
The extended Robinson family established itself on a residential plot containing two small houses at 121 Pepper Street in Pasadena. Robinson's mother worked various odd jobs to support the family.[16] Growing up in relative poverty in an otherwise affluent community, Robinson and
The OU Sooner Housing Center (SHC) is comprised of three housing facilities (The Jefferson House, The Jones House, and the Bud Wilkinson House) and a dining hall (The Wagner Dining Hall) which creates a family-like environment solely for residents. The Jefferson House houses all female residents, while the Jones House and Bud Wilkinson (referred to as “the Bud”) houses all males. The Wagner dining hall provides meals services only for students, faculty, and staff living in the three Sooner Housing Center. The first floor of the Bud is the “community center” which provides computers, a television, sitting areas, Ping-Pong and pool tables, a laundry room, and a main office. In the past, the Bud served only as athletic housing, but by 1996, the houses were converted to shared housing for both athlete (49%) and non-athlete (51%) “The change from all athletic housing to shared on-campus housing was originally mandated by the NCAA rules. As a result, the OU Athletics Department decided to take a creative approach and provide quality housing for all students” (Sooner Sports NP).
in English and taught as a part time instructor. It’s a garden that he describes as “overgrown and seemingly unmanaged...perhaps the only place left at the university that is not meticulously landscaped and stage-managed for tour groups and the website”. While the “aesthetic conformity” of the school is not the only issue, DeBoer’s portrayal of the campus sets the mood of his statement. The juxtaposed descriptions of the natural versus managed spaces on campus reflect the bigger picture; namely universities are more focused on marketability than education. He backs this up with other information, but it is this personal example that will likely stick with the audience. The garden might seem like a trivial issue, but it represents DeBoer’s personal stake in the subject. “That’s precisely why I love the garden: It’s one of the last little wild places left at Purdue”, he says, “Naturally, it’s slated for demolition”. This particular statement is a powerful ending to his introduction because it depicts the weakness of campus culture and freedom against university
During his teens, Roger Williams came to the attention of Sir Edward Coke, a brilliant lawyer and one-time Chief Justice of England, through whose influence he was enrolled at Sutton's Hospital, a part of Charter House, a school in London. He next entered Pembroke College at Cambridge University from which he graduated in 1627. All of the literature currently available at Pembroke to prospective students mentions Roger Williams, his part in the Reformation, and his founding of the Colony of Rhode Island. At Pembroke, he was one of eight granted scholarships based on excellence in Latin, Greek and Hebrew. Pembroke College in Providence, once the women's college of Brown University, was named after Pembroke at Cambridge in honor of Roger Williams.
Robinson attended Pasadena Community College, where he excelled in basketball, track, baseball, and football. (Hageman 1) After community college, he enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 1941 he became the first athlete in the history of UCLA to letter in all four of those sports in the same year. It was in 1940 when Bartlett introduced Robinson to, his future wife, a nursing student named Rachel Isum. Two years later they were separated when Robinson was drafted into the US Army. Robinson served stateside during the war, and achieved the rank of Second Lieutenant status. While in serving in Texas, Robinson was court-martialed for refusing to move to the back of the bus, almost eleven years before Rosa Parks. Robinson was later acquitted and received an honorable discharg...
At precisely 12:30 p.m. on September 4, 2015 Father Leahy ceremoniously cut the ribbon to announce the opening of Stayer Hall located at 2150 Commonwealth Avenue. Construction began for this building in summer 14, replacing More Hall. The Mayor of Boston Marty Walsh was even in attendance for the event which shows the excitement surrounding the opening of this grand new residence hall. To give an idea of the size of this new residence hall, it is reported to be about 1.5 times the size of Stokes Hall! This building is a major addition to the Boston College campus, the new RD for the residence hall was quoted as saying “With the opening of this new building, BC has increased its on-campus capacity by 250 beds. This is a significant step towards ensuring all students have the option of living on campus throughout their entire education.” This is a great step in the right direction for Boston College, the building of this residence hall will allow BC to offer significantly more students 4 years of housing, therefore forcing less students off campus for one of their years at
Robinson, Mark, and Ann Tabor. The Buildings, They Are Sleeping Now: The History of St. Mary’s College, http://ann.stubbornlights.org/stmarys (11 October 2004).
Charles attended Brentwood School in Essex which is father was headmaster of but in 1894 Charles changed schools to Clifton College before winning a scholarship to Hertford College in Oxford in 1898.
When he graduated from Dartmouth College in 1925 after that he attended Lincoln College at Oxford.
“Reid Residence Hall is a three story, fourteen bay, Georgian Revival brick building with a pedimented Doric entrance portico on the North Elevation” (Harnsberger, 206). Reid Dormitory is situated in the middle of the axial drive originally designed to lead from the former Refectory to a road to the south. It was placed on the southern side of campus, flanked by Grammer Dormitory to the left and a proposed seventh dormitory to the right; this seventh dorm was not built until 1956 (Dreams and Reality: Sweet Briar College and Ralph Adams Cram, Laing, 32). Ralph Adams Cram built this building as well; he clearly intended this building to hold its own against the Refectory, giving it a grand design. This is evident given its dual function as both a dormitory and a dining
Fernham College is a fictional all female college created by Virginia Woolf in her work A Room of One’s Own. In this, after having lunch at Oxbridge, another college she made up, and dinner at Fernham she does some research as to why her time at these two colleges were so different from each other. In her findings she concludes that in order to be successful, “a woman must have money and a room of her own.” She comes to this by finding out the all male university she visited, Oxbridge, was more wealthy than
The college, one of the richest in Cambridge, is situated in the city centre, close to the market square, and is home to 250 postgraduates and 500 undergraduates of which the majority are men by some 14%. The ground plan sits in a rough oblong whose sides are not parallel, a feature that seems to have been embraced by subsequent builders with ranges not square to each other. Despite the apparent small physical size of the original main site, all students can be accommodated in college owned property, although it is scattered all around Cambridge. Tudor style St Michael’s Court, designed in 1903 by Aston Webb, is just across the road (T...
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In 1509 work was undertaken to construct new buildings and records show that a quarry was leased in Headington to provide the stone. This date is important as it is regarded as the founding date by the college, even though educational excellence had been promoted on ...
Though Buckingham is a private university it goes through the same economic challenges as other universities, more so because they don’t have the safety net of the government for shortfall of cash. Therefore the emphasis of student retention/graduation and enhancement has become more important than ever to institutions in terms of accountability and rankings and recent national initiatives have focused on collegiate academic outcomes. (Radcliffe, 2006) We've seen this as the University of Buckingham have made it a priority year after to finish number one overall in student satisfaction.