Kellogg College, Oxford

Kellogg College UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Oxford, Oxfordshire
Kellogg College exterior
President:	Jonathan Michie
Website:	www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk
Location
Grid reference:	SP51170752
Location:	51°45’50"N, 1°15’36"W

File:Kellogg College, Oxford.jpg

The College's main entrance

62 Banbury Road building

Kellogg College is a graduate-only constituent college of the University of Oxford. Founded in 1990 as Rewley House, Kellogg is the university's 36th college and the largest by number of students both full and part-time. Named for the Kellogg Foundation, as benefactor, the college hosts research centres including the Institute of Population Ageing and the Centre for Creative Writing. It is closely identified with lifelong learning at Oxford.

Kellogg is lodged in a group of formal Victorian era buildings in residential Norham Manor. As with most of the university's graduate colleges, the college has an egalitarian spirit which is reflected by a lack of formal separation between fellows and students. The college has no high table and, uniquely among Oxford's colleges, its grace is in Welsh (in commemoration of its official founding on St David's Day). It is also unique in having its own tartan.

The president of the college is Jonathan Michie who is Professor of Innovation & Knowledge Exchange. Michie succeeded the founder of the college, Geoffrey Thomas, as president.

History

Kellogg College was the first home for part-time students at the University of Oxford and many of the students who join the college continue to work in their professions while they study. The college has accepted both women and men as students since its foundation.

The college came into being on 1 March 1990 (as Rewley House) and was renamed in honour of Will Keith Kellogg on 1 October 1994, in recognition of the financial support given by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to the university over the preceding decade. The college has close connections with the university's departments for continuing education, medicine, education, computer science, and law, and other departments active in areas of professional and part-time study. Until 2021, the Director of the Department for Continuing Education was ex officio President of Kellogg College.

The college can trace its origins back to the start of the university extension movement in the 1870s. In 1878, Arthur Johnson was the first to deliver an "Oxford Extension Lecture". The movement grew out of a drive to liberalise Oxford which gained momentum in the 1850s. As a consequence, the university slowly began to open itself to religious nonconformists, poorer men, and women. It is this movement that forms the historical background of Kellogg.

Buildings

Until 2009 the college shared Rewley House in Wellington Square with the Department for Continuing Education. In May 2004, the college acquired a site for a new permanent home, located between Banbury Road and Bradmore Road, in the Norham Manor area of North Oxford, a 10-minute walk from Wellington Square. The existing Victorian buildings have been renovated to provide a dining hall, residential accommodation, offices, study facilities, and research space. The college offices moved to the Banbury Road site in April 2006.^{[citation needed]}

Geoffrey Thomas House

Geoffrey Thomas House is located at 60 Banbury Road and is named after the first college president Geoffrey Thomas. The building was designed by William Wilkinson and constructed in 1865–1866. A rear extension was constructed in 1902.

Geoffrey Thomas House houses the college library on the ground and first floor. Facilities include six reading-rooms, all with wireless connectivity and three with power points for the desk-based use of laptops, and a computer room with printing/copying facilities.

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Kellogg College, Oxford)

• Kellogg College