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==History== The development of the collegiate university in western Europe followed shortly after the development of the [[medieval university]] itself. The first college to be established was the [[Collège des Dix-Huit]] at the [[University of Paris]], founded in 1180 by John of London shortly after he had returned from Jerusalem. This has led to the suggestion that the college was inspired by [[madrasa]]s he saw on his travels, although this has been disputed, particularly as, unlike madrasas, the early Paris colleges did not teach.<ref name=Geelhaar>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=14jlAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA76|page=76| author=Tim Geelhaar|title=Did the West Receive a "Complete Model"?|work=Cultural Transfers in Dispute: Representations in Asia, Europe and the Arab World since the Middle Ages|editor1=Jörg Feuchter|editor2=Friedhelm Hoffmann|editor3=Bee Yun|publisher=Campus Verlag|date=8 August 2011|isbn=9783593394046}}</ref> Other colleges appeared in Paris shortly after this, including the College of St Thomas du Louvre (1186) and the College of the Good Children of St Honore (1208–1209) – although these may both have had more of the character of grammar schools than colleges of the university<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E4-eLaN99PEC&pg=PA483|pages=483–485|title=The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages|volume=1, Salerno, Bologna, Paris|author=Hastings Rashdall|author-link=Hastings Rashdall|date=1895|publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781108018104}}</ref> – various monastic colleges starting with the [[Dominican Order|Dominicans]] in 1217,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E4-eLaN99PEC&pg=PA487|page=487|title=The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages|volume=1, Salerno, Bologna, Paris|author=Hastings Rashdall|author-link=Hastings Rashdall|date=1895|publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781108018104}}</ref> and the [[College of Sorbonne]] for non-monastic theology students in 1257.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Z1VBEbF0HAC&pg=PA116|page=116|work=A History of the University in Europe|volume=1, Universities in the Middle Ages|title=Management and resources|author=Aleksander Gieysztor|editor=Hilde de Ridder-Symoens|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|date=16 October 2003|isbn=9780521541138}}</ref> From Paris, the idea spread to Oxford, where [[William of Durham]], who had been a Regent Master of Theology at Paris, left a legacy to found [[University College, Oxford]] in 1249. Although this is taken as the foundation date of University College, it was not until after 1280 that the college actually began operating. At around the same time [[Balliol College]] was founded by [[John de Balliol]] via a grant of land in 1263 as a penance imposed by the Bishop of Durham, and [[Merton College]] was founded with an endowment by [[Walter de Merton]] in 1264.<ref name=UCO>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XeXwCgAAQBAJ&pg=PR13|title=Early Records of University College, Oxford|pages=xiii-xiv|editor=R. H. Darwall-Smith|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|date=2015|isbn=9780904107272}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/about-balliol/history|title=History|publisher=Balliol College|access-date=15 August 2017}}</ref> These original Oxford colleges were "merely endowed boardinghouses for impoverished scholars",<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/University-of-Oxford|title=University of Oxford|publisher=[[Encyclopedia Britannica]]|access-date=15 August 2017}}</ref> and were limited to those who had already received their [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree and were reading for higher degrees (usually theology).<ref name=UCO/> It was not until 1305 that teaching started in the [[College of Navarre]] in Paris,<ref name=Geelhaar/> an innovation that reached Oxford in 1379 with the foundation of [[New College, Oxford|New College]] – also the first college there to take undergraduate students.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/college-history|title=The History of New College|publisher=New College, Oxford|access-date=15 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180413043446/http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/college-history|archive-date=2018-04-13|url-status=dead}}</ref> In [[University of Bologna|Bologna]] and other Italian universities, the colleges, as [[Hastings Rashdall|Rashdall]] put it, "remained to the last (what all Colleges were originally intended to be) eleemosynary institutions for the help of poor students, boarding-houses and not places of education" and never acquired the same importance as the colleges of Oxford or Paris.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E4-eLaN99PEC&pg=PA199|title=The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages|volume=1, Salerno, Bologna, Paris|author=Hastings Rashdall|author-link=Hastings Rashdall|date=1895|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|isbn=9781108018104|publication-date=2 November 2010}}</ref> Colleges evolved in different directions in different places, but many European universities lost their colleges in the early 18th century. At the [[University of Coimbra]], for example, many colleges were established in the 16th century, although these were limited to the study of theology with the other faculties remaining non-collegiate. These colleges, joined by others in the 17th and 18th centuries, persisted until 1834, when they (along with the religious orders that ran then) were suppressed following the Portuguese civil war.<ref name=coimbra>{{cite web|url=http://collegiateway.org/news/2008-coimbra-university-colleges|title=The Lost College of the University of Coimbra|work=Collegiate Way|author=Robert J. O'Hara|access-date=17 August 2017}}</ref> The colleges of Paris were closed along with the university itself and the rest of the French universities after the French Revolution, as were the colleges of the [[University of Salamanca]].<ref name="Cathenc Paris">{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11495a.htm|title=University of Paris|encyclopedia=Catholic Encyclopedia|access-date=17 August 2017}}</ref><ref name=salamanca>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13392a.htm|title=University of Salamanca|encyclopedia=Catholic Encyclopedia|access-date=17 August 2017}}</ref> While the continental universities retained control over their colleges, in England it was the colleges that came to dominate the universities.<ref name=Hamilton>{{cite book|work=DISCUSSIONS ON PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE, EDUCATION AND UNIVERSITY REFORM|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UPkH1jlyR1kC&pg=PA383|pages=383–429|author=William Hamilton|title=On the State of the English Universities, With More Especial Reference to Oxford|date=June 1831}}</ref> The [[Hebdomadal Council|Hebdomadal Board]] was established by [[William Laud]] at Oxford in 1631 with the intent of diluting the influence of Congregation (the assembly of regent masters) and Convocation (the assembly of all graduates).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/statutes/375-092.shtml#_Toc30485128|title=The Laudian Code|work=Statutes and Regulations|publisher=University of Oxford|access-date=15 August 2017}}</ref> This led to criticism in the 19th century, with [[Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet|William Hamilton]] alleging that the colleges had unlawfully usurped the functions of the universities as the tutors had taken over the teaching from the professors.<ref name=Hamilton/> Royal Commissions in the 1850s led to Acts of Parliament in 1854 (for Oxford) and 1856 (for Cambridge) that, among other measures, limited the power of the colleges.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/statutes/375-092.shtml#_Toc30485129|title=University Commissioners 1850-81|work=Statutes and Regulations|publisher=University of Oxford|access-date=15 August 2017}}</ref> Prior to these reforms, however, the first two new universities in England for over 600 years were established, both offering new versions of the collegiate university. The [[University of Durham]] was founded in 1832, taking Oxford for its model, and [[University College, Durham]] was created at the same time. This college, unlike those of Oxford and Cambridge, was not legally distinct from the university and nor was it responsible for teaching, which was carried out by university professors rather than college tutors. This restored the teaching role of the central university that had been lost at Oxford and Cambridge and the original role of the college as a residential rather than educational institution (cf. [[Hastings Rashdall|Rashdall]]'s comments on the Bologna colleges, above).<ref>{{cite web|quote=Durham did not, for example, follow the professorial model of the older English universities, which was itself the subject of calls for reform. The professorial model at Durham followed the Scottish pattern. Thorp always intended that the Professors would work: they would 'have the charge of the studies in their respective departments and work as at Glasgow and the foreign Universities, and as they did at Oxford in old times'.|url=https://universityhistories.com/2016/08/12/durham-university-last-of-the-ancient-universities-and-first-of-the-new-1831-1871/#_ftnref6|title=Durham University: Last of the Ancient Universities and First of the New (1831-1871)|work=University Histories|author=Dr Matthew Andrews|publisher=University History Research Group, University of Manchester|date=12 August 2016|access-date=20 August 2017|archive-date=13 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160813043134/https://universityhistories.com/2016/08/12/durham-university-last-of-the-ancient-universities-and-first-of-the-new-1831-1871/#_ftnref6|url-status=dead}}</ref> It also pioneered the concept of residential colleges being owned by the university rather than being established as independent corporations, which provided a useful model for modern institutions looking to establish colleges.<ref name="O'Hara Durham">{{cite web|url=http://collegiateway.org/news/2004-durham-colleges|title=The Collegiate System at the University of Durham|author=R. J. O’Hara|work=Collegiate Way|date=20 December 2004|access-date=4 September 2017|quote= As creatures of the central university, the Durham colleges are a far better model for people at other institutions to look to, than are the independent colleges of Oxford and Cambridge. I strongly urge university faculty and administrators interested in residential colleges to take a close look at Durham and see what structures there might be adapted for their own use.}}</ref> Unlike the earlier foundation of [[Trinity College Dublin]], which had been established as "the mother of a university" but to which no other colleges had ever been added, the Durham system allowed for the university itself to found further colleges, which it did with the establishment of [[Hatfield College]] in 1846. The [[University of London]], founded in 1836, was very different. It was, in its original form, an examining body for [[Affiliated school|affiliated colleges]]. The first two of these - [[University College London]] (UCL; founded 1826) and [[King's College London]] (founded 1829) were already in existence and resembled non-collegiate 'unitary' universities, as found in Scotland and continental Europe, except in their lack of degree-awarding powers. There had been much dispute over UCL's attempt to gain recognition as a university, and the University of London was designed as a political solution to put an end to this dispute and to enable the students at both UCL and King's to receive degrees. It was modelled to a certain extent on Cambridge, where (at that time) the senate of the university was responsible for examinations and the colleges for the teaching, and also took on some features of the [[University of France]],<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LmqvAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA76|page=76|author=Negley Harte|title=University of London: An Illustrated History: 1836-1986|date=December 2000|publisher=A&C Black |isbn=9780567564498}}</ref> an institution established under [[Napoleon]] in 1808 that had absorbed the formerly independent French universities as "academies" within a single university structure. Unlike Oxford and Cambridge, the affiliated colleges of London (which were spread across the country, not confined to London) were not constituent parts of the university and had no say in its running. Another major difference was that both UCL and King's were non-residential, providing teaching but not accommodation. This would provide the model for the civic colleges that were established in the major English cities, which later became the [[redbrick universities]]. After 1858 the requirement for colleges to be affiliated was dropped and London degrees were available to anyone who could pass the examinations. It was not until 1900 that London, after a period of sustained pressure from the teaching institutions in London, became a federal university. The London pattern spread the idea of the examining university with affiliated colleges around the [[British Empire]], in particular to Canada where the [[University of Toronto]] was refounded as an examining university, its teaching arm becoming [[University College, Toronto]], which federated other colleges in the region,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eIi2ciQE2PwC&pg=PA37|pages=37–38|title=The University of Toronto: A History|author= Martin L. Friedland|publisher=University of Toronto Press|date= 2013|isbn=9781442615366}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|work=A History of the University in Europe: Volume 3, Universities in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1800–1945)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=entlN4EEPUYC&pg=PA176|author1=Edward Shils|author2=John Roberts|title=The diffusion of European models|editor=Walter Rüegg|publisher= Cambridge University Press|date =16 September 2004|isbn = 9781139453028}}</ref> and to India, where the universities of [[University of Calcutta|Calcutta]], [[University of Madras|Madras]] and [[University of Mumbai|Bombay]] were founded in 1857, and New Zealand, where the federal [[University of New Zealand]] was established in 1874. A modification of the [[University of London]] plan was used for the [[Queen's University of Ireland]], established in 1850. This took in three newly established colleges: the Queen's Colleges of [[Queen's College, Belfast|Belfast]], [[Queen's College, Cork|Cork]] and [[Queen's College, Galway|Galway]]. This was more federal than London, but proved inflexible and was replaced in 1880 by the [[Royal University of Ireland]], which was an examining university based more directly on London. Also in 1880 another federal university, the [[Victoria University (UK)|Victoria University]], was established in the north of England to solve the problem of Owen's College, Manchester, seeking university status. This originally just took in Owen's College, but grew to take in university colleges in Leeds and Liverpool. However, it unravelled in 1903-4 after Birmingham successfully became England's first unitary university, with the three colleges all becoming universities in their own right. The federal [[University of Wales]] was created in 1893 as a national university for Wales, taking in pre-existing colleges in Aberystwyth, Cardiff and Bangor that had been preparing students for London degrees. It lasted as a federal university until 2007, when it became a confederal non-membership degree-awarding body. The University of Durham became a very curious federal institution in 1908 – its Durham division was itself collegiate, while its Newcastle division had two independent colleges (Armstrong College, the civic university college affiliated to Durham since its creation in 1871, and the Medical College, which had been affiliated since the 1850s). The two colleges of the Newcastle division were merged in 1937, and [[Newcastle University|Newcastle]] finally became an independent university in 1963. Similarly, the university college in [[University of Dundee|Dundee]], founded 1881, became a college of the [[University of St Andrews]] in 1897 before becoming an independent university in 1967. The idea of the [[residential college]] spread to America in the early 20th century, with [[Harvard University|Harvard]] and [[Yale University|Yale]] both establishing colleges (called "houses" at Harvard) in the 1930s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://collegiateway.org/colleges/|title=Residential Colleges Worldwide|work=Collegiate Way|author=Robert J. O'Hara|access-date=17 August 2017}}</ref> Like the Durham colleges, these were colleges established and owned by the universities with only limited involvement in teaching.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://admissions.yale.edu/residential-colleges|title=Residential Colleges|publisher=Yale University|access-date=17 August 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://osl.fas.harvard.edu/houses|title=The House System|publisher=Harvard University|access-date=17 August 2017}}</ref> The American [[state university system]]s also developed federal-style universities with autonomous campuses (although normally not legally independent). As these systems often developed from a single original campus, this often became identified as the 'flagship' campus of the state system.
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