Collingwood College, Durham

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Collingwood College
Durham University

Motto

Aime le meilleur
Love the best

Colours

Named after

Sir Edward Collingwood

Established

1972

Principal

Professor Ed Corrigan

Senior Tutor

Dr Steve Rayner

JCR President

Sam Medd

Undergraduates

1134

Postgraduates

Website

Collingwood College

JCR Website

Campus

Durham City

Collingwood College in the winter of 1979-80 from the south, and showing the college's two main wings. This view is no longer accessible as landscaping and tree growth have obscured it.

A series of views taken from Jarrow block across the college grounds between Autumn 1979 and Summer 1980

Collingwood College in c. 1979 showing the original entrance behind a gathering of students setting off for a charity event

Collingwood College in 1994 during the major building work that greatly increased the college's size

Collingwood College in June 2007 showing the new entrance added in 1994

Collingwood College is a college of Durham University in the United Kingdom. It is the second largest of Durham's undergraduate colleges. Founded in 1972 as the first purpose-built, mixed-sex college in Durham, it is named after the mathematician Sir Edward Collingwood. Collingwood College has a long tradition of attracting some of the best students who choose Durham University as the College's academic record is one of the best.

1 Campus
2 Facilities
3 Student organization
4 Notable alumni
5 Former Principals
6 External links

[edit] Campus

The college is located to the south of Durham city centre, on South Road. The steep incline of this road leads to Collingwood and the surrounding colleges being commonly referred to as 'Hill' colleges. Extended in 1994, Collingwood now has over a thousand students allocated to it, and approximately 550 bed spaces within the college. Not all students live in college during their time at the university, but all students in their first year and the majority of those in their final year are allocated a place.

[edit] Facilities

Although most Durham colleges are not used for teaching purposes, the college is equipped with a moderate library, music practice rooms and public computing facilities. Other welfare and entertainment facilities exist, including a bar, student-run shop, coffee shop, pizza shop, gym, television room, common room and various provisions for sports. During the summer of 2006, the music rooms were converted into a fully equipped recording studio, with a new JCR officer position being created to run it.

Being one of the newest colleges in Durham has led to Collingwood's facilities being frequently used for conference trade with external organisations. The money from such conferences is put back into the colleges to allow improvements, but perhaps unsurprisingly many argue that the need to please conference guests can lead to a conflict of interest.

[edit] Student organization

As with all colleges in Durham, the students organise and democratise themselves by creating and running a body known as the Junior Common Room, or more commonly JCR. All students of the college are JCR members unless they specifically request otherwise. The JCR is a constituent member of the Durham Students' Union which in turn is a constituent member of the National Union of Students. Thus, all student members of Collingwood are NUS members as well. Each year the JCR is managed by a democratically elected President, Sam Medd is in charge until August '08 after which Ryan Young shall take iver Presidency.

The college has a number of sports clubs, for example: