Benutzerin:Quod-erat-demonstrandum./St Catharine’s College (Oxford)

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St Catherine’s College benannt nach der hl. Katharina von Alexandrien (St Catherine of Alexandria)
Motto	Nova et Vetera (Das Neue und das Alte)
Gründung	1962
Trägerschaft	University of Oxford
Ort	Manor Road, Oxford
Master	Peter Battle („pro-master“)
Studierende	497 (Dezember 2017) Postgraduierte: 409 (Dezember 2017)
Jahresetat	£84.8 Millionen (2018)
Netzwerke	Schwester-College: Robinson College (Cambridge)
Website	www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk

Vorderansicht des St Catz

Das St Catharine’s College (kurz Catz) ist ein College der englischen Oxford-Universität. Es wurde im Jahr 1962 gegründet. Das Gebäude wurde von Architekt Arne Jacobsen entworfen. Das Catz ist das jüngste der Teil-Colleges, aus denen sich die Universität Oxford zusammensetzt, welches sowohl „undergraduates“ (Bachelor-Studenten) als auch „graduates“ (Master-Studenten und Doktoranden) unterrichtet. Tracing its roots back to 1868 (although the college itself was opened in 1962), it has 502 undergraduate and 442 graduate students as of December 2017, making it the largest undergraduate college by membership in the University of Oxford (Kellogg College has 1139 students compared to St. Catherine's 992, though it is a graduate-only college).

The college developed out of the university's Delegacy for Unattached Students, and was founded in 1962 by the historian Alan Bullock, who went on to become the first master of the college, and later vice-chancellor of the university.

Die ursprünglichen College-Gebäude wurden 1993 als Grade I listing in die Denkmalschutz-Liste Statutory List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest aufgenommen.

Geschichte

The college traces its descent from the Scholares Non Ascripti, or Delegacy for Unattached Students, founded by Statute on 11 June 1868. Created in response to the recommendation of a Royal Commission in 1852, this was established as part of an expansion of the university so that male students would be able to gain an Oxford education without the costs of college membership. The college therefore celebrated its 150th anniversary in the academic year 2018–2019, coinciding with the 2018 Ball 'Continuum'.

The delegacy was originally headed by two Censors, George Kitchin and George S. Ward, who oversaw the administration and welfare of the students. Nineteen students matriculated in October 1868 as Scholares Non Ascripti and were joined throughout the year by another forty, bringing the total number in the first year to fifty-nine. By 1914, more than 4,000 men had matriculated as non-collegiate students. In 1884, the delegacy was renamed the "Delegacy for Non-Collegiate Students". Due to the lack of an identifying name for social and sporting purposes, groups identified with the delegacy began using the name "St. Catharine's", taken from a hall used for boat club meetings on Catte Street. In 1931 the delegacy was officially renamed the "St. Catherine's Society", with the spelling changed to "St. Catherine's". This name is also a reference to St. Catherine of Alexandria; this can also be seen in the college blazon, which depicts four Catherine wheels, one of St. Catherine's attributes. The society was thus developing the characteristics of a college, and in 1956 the delegates decided to formalise this change in status by obtaining approval to turn into a fully residential college.

After acquiring Vorlage:Convert from Merton College, Oxford on part of Holywell Great Meadow for £57,690, monies were sought from the University Grants Committee who also agreed to supply £250,000 towards the building, and additional funds up to £400,000 for all facilities. By 1960 Sir Alan Bullock raised a further £1,000,000 with invaluable assistance from two industrial notables, Sir Alan Wilson (whom he met by chance on the RMS Queen Mary) and Sir Hugh Beaver. After a total expenditure of £2.5 million, the college opened in 1962. In 1974 St Catz was one of the first men's colleges to admit women as full members, the others being Brasenose, Jesus College, Hertford and Wadham.

Buildings

Jacobsen's bespoke furniture and lighting in the Hall.

Accommodation.

Original buildings

The college is located to the east of central Oxford, on the banks of the Cherwell. Its buildings in glass and concrete, by the Danish architect Arne Jacobsen, marry modern materials with a traditional layout around a quadrangle. Jacobsen's designs also included cutlery, furniture, and lampshades. The dining hall is notable for its Cumberland slate floor.

The original college buildings received a Grade I listing in 1993. Jacobsen's plans for the college did not include a chapel: St Cross Church on the corner of Manor Road and Longwall Street served this purpose before its decommission in 2008. The St Catherine's Christmas carol concert is now held in Harris Manchester College's chapel. The college has a bell tower, particularly visible since no college building is more than three storeys high. An extra floor was reputedly planned for most accommodation blocks, but due to regulations concerning safe building on marshland, this was removed from the final design.

St Catherine's has a number of lecture theatres and seminar rooms, a music house, two student computer rooms, a small gym, squash courts, a punt house, and among the most spacious common rooms in Oxford. There are also additional purpose-built conference facilities with lecture theatres, meeting rooms and bar, and car parking available for non-students. The dining hall, which seats 350 diners, has the largest capacity of any Oxford college.

The majority of St Catherine's buildings are in the form of staircases that open directly onto the quad(s) outside; these are filled with student rooms and office space. There is little indoor space in the college and St Catherine's favours a minimalist, rather austere environment, though still comfortable. Student rooms are light and spacious, notable for their curtain wall glazing.

1994 and 2004 extensions

In 1994 and 2004, the college completed construction of three and seven new accommodation staircases designed by Stephen Hodder and Partners with en-suite rooms, which means that most undergraduates can live on the main college site for the duration of their course. Prior to this, all undergraduates had the experience of living off-campus for their second year. These new staircases effectively form a second quad, which is largely used to provide accommodation for conferences during the breaks between academic terms.

Student life

The college celebrates its patron saint each year with a special Catz Night dinner, attended by junior and senior members of the college. Every three years the college also holds a ball, usually off-site due to the problem of securing the college's perimeter sufficiently for insurance purposes. St. Catherine's is also known for its more modern approaches, such as by voting to end the tradition of standing when the Master enters the hall at formal dinner, although most students still continue in this practice out of respect.

The Wallace Watson Award is a travel scholarship granted annually to a student or group students to undertake an expedition in a remote region of the world.

Academic reputation

Abschneiden des St Catherine's in der Hochschul-Rangliste Norrington Table zwischen 2006 und 2016

In 2018, St Catherine's College ranked 3rd on the Norrington Table, with a score of 78.15%, climbing from 26th place in 2017 when it had a score of 68.68%. St. Catherine's College also hosts a variety of undergraduate subjects, which can be found on its college website.

Rowing

St Catherine's College Boat Club is the rowing club of the college. In Torpids 2012, the men's first boat was fourth on the river and then were bumped three times, ending seventh. The first boat was then ninth on the river after being bumped in the Summer Eights. The women's first boat held headship in Torpids a few years ago. In 2017, however, the women's boat managed to score an unprecedented −10 bumps (due to hitting a tree). British Olympic gold medallists Sir Matthew Pinsent and Andrew Triggs Hodge, and silver medallist Colin Smith all rowed for the college.

Alumni (Auswahl)

• 
  Michael Billington
• 
  Benazir Bhutto
• 
  J. Paul Getty
• 
  Peter Mandelson
• 
  Matthew Pinsent
• 
  John Robert Vane
• 
  Paul Wilmott

Benazir Bhutto, pakistanische Politikerin, Premierministerin David Hemery, britischer Leichtathlet Matthew Pinsent‎, britischer Ruderer

John Vane, Pharmakologe und Medizin-Nobelpreisträger Peter Mandelson, britischer Politiker (Labour) Andrew Triggs Hodge, britischer Ruderer

Alice Eve, britische Schauspielerin James Langstaff, britischer Theologe

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The list includes alumni associated with the Delegacy for Unattached Students, the Delegacy for Non-Collegiate Students and St Catherine's Society prior to the official founding of the College.

• Clive Barnes – theatre critic
• Mark Beech – writer and broadcaster, rock critic
• Benazir Bhutto – Pakistani politician, elected to an Honorary Fellowship of the College 1989
• Michael Billington – critic, author and radio presenter
• John Birt – former Director-General of the BBC
• Christopher Bishop – Chief Research Scientist at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, and Chair of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh
• Victor Blank – Chairman of Lloyds TSB
• Euros Bowen – Welsh poet
• Tim Brighouse – education guru, previously Schools Commissioner for London
• Ben Britton, materials scientist and engineer
• Hans-Paul Burkner – Chairman of The Boston Consulting Group
• Alan Chesters – Anglican Prelate
• Christian Cole - first black graduate of the University of Oxford
• John Cornforth – 1975 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
• Denis Cosgrove – former Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles
• Alexander Curtis - youngest mayor in the United Kingdom
• Barun De – historian; formerly Chairman, West Bengal Heritage Commission
• Jeremy Duns – British author
• Audrey Elkington – Archdeacon of Bodmin
• Clark Kent Ervin – first Inspector General of the US Department of Homeland Security
• Alice Eve – actress
• Adam Foulds – novelist and poet
• Emilia Fox – actress
• Timothy Garden, Baron Garden – Liberal Democrat
• J. Paul Getty – American mogul and philanthropist
• Joseph Heller – American author and playwright; Catch-22
• Richard Herring – comedian and writer
• Ernest Hilbert – American poet, book critic, opera librettist, and editor
• Farooq Leghari – former President of Pakistan
• Sam Llewellyn – author
• Peter Mandelson – architect of "New Labour", several times a UK Cabinet minister, and Trade Commissioner in the Barroso Commission 2004–2008
• Olly Mann – podcaster and broadcaster, co-creator of the podcast Answer Me This!
• James Marsh – Academy Award-winning film director
• Chris Maslanka – writer and broadcaster
• Mark Miodownik – materials scientist, engineer, broadcaster and writer
• Hiren Mukherjee – Member of Parliament, Calcutta North East, 1952–77.
• Richard Newby, Baron Newby – Liberal Democrat politician
• George Peck – founder of the Oxford School Of Drama
• Bob Peirce – diplomat
• Tom Phillips – artist and Royal Academician
• Alex Polizzi – hotelier and television presenter
• Benjamin Ross – film director
• David Rudkin – playwright
• Gene Sharp – leading theoretician on nonviolent struggle
• Mark Simpson – clarinetist, BBC Young Musician of the Year 2006, and BBC Young Composer of the Year 2006
• Paul Spike – author, editor and journalist
• Andrew Stewart Coats - cardiologist
• H. S. Suhrawardy – First Bengali Prime Minister of Pakistan
• John Vane – 1992 Nobel Laureate in Medicine
• Rudolf Vleeskruijer – founder of the English Institute of the University of Utrecht
• John E. Walker – 1997 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
• Eric Williams – Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
• Paul Wilmott – British mathematician and quantitative analyst
• Simon Winchester – British author and historian; The Surgeon of Crowthorne; The Map that Changed the World
• Jeanette Winterson – British author of books including Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Sexing the Cherry, Written on the Body, The World and Other Places
• Emily Woof – actress
• P. C. Wren – novelist, author of Beau Geste
• David Yates – current Warden of Robinson College, Cambridge
• Helen Zaltzman – podcaster, co-creator of the podcast Answer Me This!
• Grant Gee – film director, best known for the documentary Meeting People is Easy

Sportler

• Phil de Glanville – former England rugby captain
• David Hemery – Olympic gold medallist in athletics
• Christopher Liwski – American rower and 2005 Oxford Blue
• Matthew Pinsent – Quadruple Olympic gold medallist in rowing
• Colin Smith – British rower and three time Oxford Blue
• Andrew Triggs Hodge- British rower, double Olympic gold medallist
• Derek Wyatt – rugby international, former MP and founder, Oxford Internet Institute

Collegeleitung

„Censors“ 1868–1962

Vor der offiziellen Gründung des heutigen Colleges leiteten folgende Personen die an seiner Stelle bestehenden Delegacy for Unattached Students, Delegacy for Non-Collegiate Students und St Catherine’s Society.

• 1868–1883: George Kitchin
• 1868–1881: G.S. Ward
• 1883–1887: William Jackson
• 1888–1919: R.W.M. Pope
• 1919–1930: J.B. Baker
• 1930–1952: V.J.K. Brook
• 1952–1962: Alan Bullock

Master seit 1962

• 1962–1981: Alan Bullock; erster Master des neuen St Catherine’s College
• 1981–1988: Patrick Nairne
• 1988–1994: Brian Smith
• 1994–2000: Raymond Plant, Baron Plant of Highfield
• 2000–2002: Sir Peter Williams
• 2002–2019: Roger Ainsworth
• 2019–2020: Peter Battle (Interimsleitung)
• ab 2020: Kersti Börjars

Fellows (Auswahl)

• Richard Attenborough
• Alan Ayckbourn
• Simon Russell Beale
• Ronald N. Bracewell
• Melvyn Bragg
• Stephen Daldry
• Peter Edwards (chemist)
• Richard Eyre
• Michael Frayn
• Timothy Garden, Baron Garden
• Malcolm Green (chemist)
• Robin M. Hochstrasser
• George Holmes (historian)
• Nicholas Hytner
• Marc Lackenby
• Phyllida Lloyd
• Patrick Marber
• Ian McKellen
• Trevor Nunn
• Donald Hill Perkins
• Tim Rice
• Diana Rigg
• Claude-Michel Schönberg
• Peter Shaffer
• Stephen Sondheim
• Patrick Stewart
• Michael Sullivan (art historian)
• Meera Syal
• Bart van Es

Honorary Fellows

• Sir Michael Atiyah
• Michael Billington
• John Birt, Baron Birt
• Noam Chomsky
• Sir John Cornforth
• David Daniell
• Mark Getty
• John Goodenough
• Sir James Gowans
• Sir Cameron Mackintosh
• Peter Mandelson, Baron Mandelson
• Nicanor Parra
• Raymond Plant, Baron Plant of Highfield
• Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford
• Sir John Walker
• Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson
• Ruth Wolfson geb. Sterling, Lady Wolfson

Gallery

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  A view of the water garden along the west side of the site, toward the small bridge that was part of the original entrance sequence.
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  A view of the west-side accommodation and water garden.
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  The statue outside the old porter's lodge in snow, "Achaean" by Barbara Hepworth.
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  Barbara Hepworth's "Achaean" at St Catherine's College, Oxford.

Weblinks

Commons: St Catharine’s College – Album mit Bildern, Videos und Audiodateien

• Offizielle Internetpräsenz des Colleges
• Homepage
• Virtual tour of Oxford. Produced by the Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford

Literatur

• Davies, M. & D. Creating St Catherine's College. Oxford: St Catherine's College, 1997. ISBN 0-9531279-0-7.

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