Reuben College

Reuben College
founding	2019
Sponsorship	University of Oxford
place	Oxford
country	United Kingdom
president	Lionel Tarassenko
Students	0 (initial admission 2021-2022)
Website	Homepage

The Reuben College is a new constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Plans for the new college were announced in December 2018, tentatively named Parks College . It is the first new Oxbridge College since Kellogg College was founded in 1990. It is located in the science area on the grounds of the historic Radcliffe Science Library.

history

Radcliffe Science Library

The establishment of Parks College was approved by a vote in the university's congregation on May 7, 2019 . On June 11, 2020, the university announced that it was changing the name of the college from Parks College to Reuben College due to a £ 80 million grant from the Reuben Foundation . The college was officially renamed on June 30, 2020.

The college initially plans to enroll 200 postgraduate students in the 2021-2022 academic year. Initially, the focus will be on three interdisciplinary research clusters (artificial intelligence and machine learning, ecological change and cellular life), which will later be increased to six or eight clusters.

Professor Lionel Tarassenko (Head of the Institute of Engineering) was invited by Vice Chancellor Louise Richardson to oversee the development of the college as a founding president. The college named its first fellows in 2019 , including Jane A. McKeating and EJ Milner-Gulland.

building

The current building of the Radcliffe Science Library (RSL) is next to the Oxford University Museum of Natural History and consists of three parts:

• The Jackson Wing, parallel to South Parks Road, is a listed building and was designed by Thomas Graham Jackson and opened in 1901. This extends over 3 floors above ground.
• The Worthington Wing, parallel to Parks Road, was designed by Hubert Worthington in 1934 as an extension of the Jackson Wing. The wing extends north of the west end of the Jackson Wing and contains the entrance area on the first floor.
• The Lankester Room and Main Stack form a two-story extension and were built between 1972 and 1975.

Reuben College will also consist of the western wing of the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory and Abbot's Kitchen.

The completion of the renovation of the RSL building is planned for the beginning of the academic year 2021–2022. The completion of the redevelopment of the west wing of the laboratory for inorganic chemistry (potential room for the dining room), Abbot's Kitchen and the connecting rooms is planned for the beginning of the academic year 2022-2023.

Student accommodation is offered in the newly renovated building on Farndon Court.

administration

Reuben, along with Kellogg and St Cross, is one of only three Oxford colleges without a Royal Charter . It is officially a "society" of the university and not an independent college. The main difference from an independent college is that the governing body only recommends a president who is then appointed by the university council. In other colleges, leadership is elected and appointed directly by the governing body. For accounting reasons, the companies are considered to be departments of the university.

Web links

• Reuben College homepage

Individual evidence

1. ^ Parks College . University of Oxford. Accessed December 1, 2019.
2. ^ New Grad College To Share RSL As "Flexible Space", University Reveals . In: The Oxford Student , February 1, 2019. 
3. ^ Oxford unveils plans for new graduate college . University of Oxford. December 7, 2018. Retrieved December 7, 2018.
4. ^ Camilla Turner: Oxford University set to open first new college in almost 30 years, as it seeks to take on Ivy League rivals . In: The Daily Telegraph , August 17, 2018. 
5. ^ The first college for nearly 30 years planned for Oxford University . BBC . 20th August 2018.
6. ^ Question and Reply, Legislative Proposal and Resolution concerning Parks College . In: Oxford Gazette , May 15, 2019. Retrieved July 5, 2019. 
7. ^ Parks College to benefit from transformational £ 80 million gift from the Reuben Foundation . Parks College. June 11, 2020.
8. ↑ Welcome to Reuben College . Retrieved July 2, 2020.
9. ^ Parks College . University of Oxford. Accessed December 1, 2019.
10. ^ Andrew Ffrench: Oxford University is planning new graduate college . In: Oxford Mail , December 13, 2018. 
11. ^ Parks College People . Retrieved November 29, 2019.
12. ↑ Radcliffe Science Library redevelopment . University of Oxford. Retrieved August 2, 2019.
13. ^ Regulations for Parks College . University of Oxford. Retrieved July 5, 2019.
14. ↑ Financial Statements of the Oxford Colleges (2017-18) . University of Oxford. Retrieved July 5, 2019.

Coordinates: 51 ° 45 ′ 30.2 "  N , 1 ° 15 ′ 19.4"  W.