Linacre College, Oxford

Linacre College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the UK whose members comprise approximately 50 fellows and 500 postgraduate students. The College is named after Thomas Linacre (1460–1524), founder of the Royal College of Physicians as well as a distinguished renaissance humanist - a multidisciplinary nature the College aims to reflect. It is located on St Cross Road at its junction with South Parks Road, next to the University Parks and opposite the Tinbergen Building.Linacre is a diverse college in terms of both the international composition of its members (the majority of whom are from outside the UK and represent 133 different countries), as well as the disciplines studied. Linacre was the first graduate college in the UK for both sexes and all subjects. Linacre was also the first Oxford college to admit female and male students on an equal basis. This egalitarian spirit is reflected by a lack of formal separation between fellows and students.The College also has a strong environmental and ethical ethos. It was the first carbon neutral college as well as the first college in Oxford to achieve Fairtrade status.HistoryLinacre College was the UK's first graduate society for both sexes and all subjects. Founding Principal John Bamborough described it as "a deliberate experiment by the University to see whether the needs of graduate students could be met by a new type of society." This pioneering institution was founded on 1 August 1962, in premises on St Aldate's formerly occupied by St Catherine's Society and currently home to the university's Music Department. Initially there were 115 members of whom only 30 were British. The first senior members included Isaiah Berlin, Dorothy Hodgkin and John Hicks.