Lonsdale College
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| University | University of Lancaster |
| Location | Alexandra Park |
| Motto | "Simply the best" |
| Established | 1964 |
| Named for | Lonsdale Hundred |
| Principal | Dr. Charlotte Baker |
| Dean | Andy Smith |
| Undergraduates | 1,400 |
| Website | College; JCR |
Lonsdale College is a constituent college of the University of Lancaster, UK. It was one of the two founding colleges, originally built when the university first opened in 1964. It is also one of the largest colleges on campus in terms of Junior Common Room membership, with over 1,200 undergraduates. Like most other colleges in the university, the college is named after a region of the traditional county of Lancashire. The college takes its name from the Lonsdale area, the valley of the River Lune.
The College was originally located in what is now Bowland North to the north of Alexandra Square. The college was designed in tandem with Bowland and was in fact designed as a mirror image of it.
In 2004 the college moved, along with Cartmel College to some of the newly built buildings to the south of the main campus in Alexandra Park. Its original buildings were transferred to the other founding college, Bowland, and became known as Bowland North.
Lonsdale college has a bar called The Red Lion, a computer lab, a study room, and a launderette.
Just over half of the college's students live in college at any one time. Other Lonsdale students live in Lancaster city centre. The residential buildings housing the college's entirely en-suite accommodation are named after places in the Lonsdale area. Residential buildings are reallocated from year to year for administrative convenience so which are Lonsdalian ones is subject to change each year.
The College is established under the Statutes of the University. Internally, the key committee which runs the College is the College Syndicate.
The College Principal is Charlotte Baker and the Vice-Principal is Keith Davidson. The Senior Advisor is Laura McGowan, and the Dean is Andy Smith.
Current student president is Hannah Marklew, as of 2017.
An heraldic "leopard" (the name given in heraldry to a lion "passant guardant", i.e., walking from right to left with face turned towards the viewer) features in the official Lonsdale college logo. The college colours are observed in the college scarf and are: blue, white, red and grey.
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