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St Aidan's College | ||||||||||||||||||
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University of Durham | ||||||||||||||||||
Location | Windmill Hill, Durham DH1 3LJ | |||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 54°45′51″N1°35′02″W / 54.764167°N 1.583889°W | |||||||||||||||||
Motto | Latin: Super fundamentis certis [1] | |||||||||||||||||
Motto in English | "Upon sure foundations" | |||||||||||||||||
Established | 1947 | |||||||||||||||||
Named for | St Aidan of Lindisfarne | |||||||||||||||||
Principal | Susan Frenk | |||||||||||||||||
Undergraduates | 806 | |||||||||||||||||
Postgraduates | 200 | |||||||||||||||||
Website | St Aidan's College | |||||||||||||||||
JCR | St Aidan's JCR | |||||||||||||||||
SCR | St Aidan's SCR | |||||||||||||||||
Boat club | St Aidan's Boat Club | |||||||||||||||||
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St Aidan's College is a college of the University of Durham in England. It had its origins in 1895 as the association of women home students, formalised in 1947 as St Aidan's Society. In 1961, it became a full college of the university, and in 1964 moved to new modernist buildings on Elvet Hill designed by Sir Basil Spence.
The college has its origins in the small group of women, known as home students, who were first allowed to study at Durham in 1895. [2] At that time, and indeed until the Second World War, it was considered unsuitable for female students to live in lodgings: they either had to be members of a college or to live at home. The numbers were never very large; for example, in 1936 there were only five. However, a substantial increase in the number of female students after 1945 meant that the former group of home students was reorganised, emerging as the St Aidan's Society in 1947.[ citation needed ]
The St Aidan's Society had its offices at 24 North Bailey (now the bar and club of the Durham Union Society). Some of the students lived in Shincliffe Hall and others in lodgings. A common room was soon found in 50 North Bailey and chapel services held at the church of St Mary-le-Bow. The first principal was Ethleen Scott, [3] having been "Censor" of the female home students since 1937.[ citation needed ]
In 1961 St Aidan's was reconstituted as a full "council college", meaning that its governing council is a sub-committee of the university council, the university's governing body. It moved to its present buildings on Elvet Hill in September 1964, becoming one of the first of the university's "Hill" colleges. [4] The college buildings are in a modernist style, having been designed by architect Sir Basil Spence and arranged in a semi-circular arrangement surrounding a central lawn. [5] The original design was intended to represent the hand of God holding a jewel, with the curved corridors as the fingers, the straight corridors as his thumb, and a small chapel as the jewel. However, financial constraints prevented the chapel from ever being built and later extensions to the straight section did not follow the original idea.[ citation needed ]
In 1963, Scott was succeeded as principal by Dame Enid Russell-Smith, [6] who handed over to Irene Hindmarsh in 1970. [7] It was during her tenure as principal that it was agreed that St Aidan's should become a mixed college. The first male students were admitted in 1981. [5]
John Ashworth took over in 1998, before becoming dean of colleges in 2007, at which point Susan Frenk became acting principal. In 2008 work on improvements to the extensions were started. The aim was to turn previous fresher rooms into ensuite accommodation for finalists and postgraduates. The newly refurbished extensions, named the Elizabeth Pease House, were opened to students in 2009. [8]
The college membership divides itself between the senior common room (SCR) and the junior common room (JCR). The SCR is a self-regulating body of senior members of the university, college officers, tutors and postgraduate students. The JCR consists of the undergraduate members of the college and elects its own officers, including a sabbatical president and a bar steward, who liaise on its behalf with the college and university. [9]
The current principal is Susan Frenk, a lecturer in Spanish and Latin-American culture.
The JCR operates a range of different sports clubs and societies which are run by different student volunteers. [11]
St Aidan's College participates in the intercollegiate football league. There are six men's and one women's team. The Women's A team is joint with Hatfield college and are in the women's premiership division. The men's A and B team are both in Men's Division 1, men's C team is in Division 3, men's D & F team in division 6A and the men's E team in division 6B. [12]
In 1954 St Aidan's College Boat Club (SACBC) was founded. Today the club shares a boathouse with University College Boat Club. The club competes with other colleges, as well as competing in the Durham Regatta. [13]
The St Aidan's College Chess Society was founded in 2022 and members meet to play one another every Thursday in the Junior Common Room. [14]
The JCR operates an annual charity fashion show that is compeltely student run. In 2022 it was the subject of a controversy that was reported in the student and national press. [15] [16]
There are currently one men's and one woman's hockey teams playing in the premiership. Both teams have recently been highly successful in the cup competition with the woman winning it in 2021 and the men winning the competeition in 2022. [17]
St Aidan's International Society won the Global College Award in 2023. [18]
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