Collingwood College, Durham

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Collingwood College is a college of Durham University in England. 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 Univeristy as the College's academic record is one of the best.

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.

Although 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.

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.

[edit] Notable alumni

• Lorraine Heggessey, controller of BBC One 2000-2005
• Amjad Hussain, Rear Admiral Royal Navy
• David Sproxton, Joint founder of Aardman Animations
• James Foster, Essex and England wicketkeeper
• Alex Loudon, Warwickshire and England cricketer

[edit] External links

• Collingwood College official website
• Collingwood College JCR undergraduate student organisation
• Collingwood College MCR postgraduate student organisation
• Collingwood College SCR postgraduate student and staff organisation

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