St Hilda's College, Oxford

St Hilda's College
University	Oxford
Location	Cowley Place
Coordinates	51°44′57″N 1°14′43″W / 51.749162°N 1.245334°W / 51.749162; -1.245334
Motto	non frustra vixi (I lived not in vain)
Established	1893
Named for	Hilda of Whitby
Principal	Sir Gordon Duff
Undergraduates	400 (2011/2012)
Postgraduates	175
Website	Homepage
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Location in Oxford city centre

St Hilda's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. The college is named after the Anglo-Saxon Saint, Hilda of Whitby and was founded in 1893 as a hall for women; remaining an all-women's college until 2008. The college now has almost equal numbers of men and women at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

The current Principal is Sir Gordon Duff, who took up the post in 2014.

As of 31 July 2015, the college had an endowment of £45.5 million and total assets of £62.4 million.

Founded in 1893, St Hilda's College was originally an Oxford Hall for women. It was founded by Dorothea Beale (who was also a headmistress at Cheltenham Ladies' College) as a women's college, a status it retained until 2008. Whilst other Oxford colleges gradually became co-educational, no serious debate at St Hilda's occurred until 1997, according to a former vice-principal, and then the debate solely applied to the issue of staff appointments. After a vote on 7 June 2006 by the Governing Body, men and women can be admitted as fellows and students. This vote was pushed through with a narrow margin and followed previous unsuccessful votes which were protested by students because of the "high-handed" manner in which they were held. The change was met with some dismay from former alumnae and current students.

In October 2007 a supplemental charter was granted and in 2008 male students were admitted to St Hilda's for the first time. The College now has almost equal numbers of men and women at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. In August 2015, the interim Norrington Table showed that 98.2 per cent of St Hilda's finalist undergraduates obtained at least a 2.i in their degree.

St Hilda's was the first women's college in Oxford and Cambridge to create a women's VIII in 1911. It was St Hilda's student H.G. Wanklyn who formed OUWBC and coxed in the inaugural Women's Boat Race of 1927, with five Hilda's rowers. In 1969, the St Hilda's Eight made Oxford history when they became the first ever female crew to row in the Summer Eights. They placed 12th.