Founded 1896 by Henry Fitzalan-Howard 15th Duke of Norfolk and Baron Anatole von Hügel. Named after Saint Edmund of Abingdon. Sister College – Green Templeton College Oxford. Men and Women over 21. Mature Undergraduates 140 Postgraduates 350.
St Edmund’s is one of a group of Cambridge colleges geared towards mature students – which in Oxbridge speak, does not mean scholars with grey hair and walking sticks, but anyone over 21. It is now one of the most diverse in the university with over half the home student body coming from abroad, with men and women from over 60 nationalities represented. At foundation it had just four students, currently there are 350 postgraduates and 140 mature undergraduates. Many are second-time learners who have decided to return to full-time education after a break. There are more men than women attending with the vast majority of students coming from state schools. On site are six maisonettes that provide housing for students with families.
Hidden in quiet woodland
The college is situated by a clutch of the newer establishments north west of the city centre, about a 5-minute bike ride away. Close neighbours include Murray Edwards, Fitzwilliam, Lucy Cavendish and Churchill. The buildings are set in quiet woodland, hidden away from the general hustle and bustle of a busy city but within easy walking distance of the main University Library, law, science and veterinary facilities. Students and fellows are encouraged to mix freely at both social and formal events – there is no ‘high table’ segregation at mealtimes and one common room for all. The college chapel reflects its Catholic roots but welcomes students of all and no faiths for thought and meditation. The Von Hügel Institute was founded within the co...
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Various architects have gone to great lengths to retain the non-institutional character and scale of the site, referencing the existing Victorian brick building stock and its details. Crisp modern interpretations with large glassed stairwells and towers blend together in a coherent whole. From 1999 to 2007 the college effectively doubled in size.
This careful planning and commitment was rewarded with full college status in 1996 and today St Edmund’s still exhibits the same drive with ambitious building projects to ensure a productive future.
The extensive grounds and mature intake make for a calm and cordial atmosphere. The enthusiastic executive committee runs all sorts of lively events and provides a cosy bar and pool table. The music room houses an impressive Broadway grand piano, and the sports teams often supply Blues.
...ch allows the person to enter the glass atrium connecting all of the wings of the building, which was added in 2012. Breuer was honored with the commission after he had shown his design abilities in other aspects throughout the city. The museum expansion was just one of the few of Breuer’s designs that still stand today. Breuer’s work in both furniture design and architecture has been around for many years, and will continue to be around for many more to come.
The school’s “Making dreams happen...one student at a time program of transformation," supported by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, began in 2001, when the school was divided into two small schools, each led by a team of teachers who also act as advisors to help students take advantage of experiences and internships congruent with their interests and passions.
“Peoria State Hospital? What’s that? Oh is that the Bartonville Insane Asylum haunted house? That place is scary!” This is what pops into many people’s mind when they think of Peoria State Hospital. Peoria State Hospital, PSH, is not just a scary haunted house; it is a very important part of history. PSH was one of the first mental health facilities of its kind. Peoria State Hospital is considered a pioneer in the treatment of mentally ill patients due to the innovative treatment methods it used. PHS influenced mental healthcare not only in Illinois but across the entire United States as well. This facility became terribly downtrodden in its later years due to the launch of new local facilities and programs and the degradation of the buildings. Toward the end PSH was eerily similar to the hospitals they sought to replace. Peoria State Hospital marked a major turning point towards the improving of mental healthcare by helping people with and curing, their mental illness not only in Illinois, but in the entire country (Bittersweet).
The University of Maryland names the majority of its campus’s buildings after the legacies of influential alumni and world scholars. Most would assume that the activities that occur in each of these buildings would be a representation of the namesake, however, that is not true for the Skinner Building.
Vickery, Margaret Birney. “The Little Band of Pioneers: Girton College.” In Buildings for Bluestockings. Cranbury: Associated University Press, 1999. 1-40.
lawns at Exeter. But such an institution is not always peachy and the students aren’t
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).
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At St. Ambrose University, the housing is mainly two bedrooms sharing one bathroom, instead of a communal bathroom. Private universities are mainly about giving a safe and supportive community that each resident can feel comfortable enough in to thrive. On top of the great housing, there are resident hall activities like volunteering. There are also over fifty clubs and after class activities available at St. Ambrose. There are academic, cultural, recreational and even more types of clubs and class activities available. St. Ambrose does its best to provide a home, away from home.
In their book Paying for the Party, Armstrong and Hamilton discuss how universities take class differences and class projects of distinct women to define what will be their college experience. In their book, Armstrong and Hamilton define class projects as individual and class characteristics that defines a person’s agenda and class- based orientation. Hence, people with similar class projects, not only shared the same financial and cultural resources, but also the same expectations toward school. (Armstrong & Hamilton, 2013). As a result, Armstrong and Hamilton claims that students with similar class projects end up becoming a collective constituency and a representative group for the university, whom in turn must take their interests to form a college pathway for them. Therefore, a college pathway for Armstrong and Hamilton refers to how universities are able to take successfully the interests, class characteristics and expectations of students to mold within the organizational and architecture context of the school. In a way, each college pathway is built not only to represent, but also to provision and guide the different types of students in a college.
Potter, Claire. "Should They Stay or Should They Go?: A Few Thoughts on Who is 'Supposed' To Be in College.". The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2011. Web. 16 November 2013.
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
In her novel Middlemarch, George Eliot’s job is to compare different types of existence and their relevance to one another—where each character is faced with a struggle to resolve his/hers desires with the realities of life. In the novel, both the character of Dorothea Brooke and Dr. Lydgate share a similar form of imagination, where both create an image in their mind of the ideal marriage. Such images can be seen as illusions and it is through these illusions the characters must surrender to reality, as they must make an effort to understand the desires that sparked their imagination from the start, and must attempt to make peace with their existing situations. Eliot, through her narration, attempts to exemplify through these two characters this common inclination of human nature to create what we desire as a tool when dealing with life that is both limiting and disappointing.
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