{"id":136,"date":"2011-05-06T13:10:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T13:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/?p=136"},"modified":"2011-05-06T13:10:05","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T13:10:05","slug":"2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/2011\/05\/06\/2007\/","title":{"rendered":"2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Vice-Chancellor Michael Farthing<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The new strategic plan <em>Making the Future<\/em> is published<\/li>\n<li>Plans are developed to introduce 12 new schools from August 2009<\/li>\n<li>Lord Attenborough steps down after 10 years as Chancellor and 40 years\u2019 service to the University<\/li>\n<li>Proposals are announced to redevelop the Gardner centre<\/li>\n<li>National Student Survey shows Sussex has 86 per cent student overall satisfaction and 88 per cent for teaching; both up on previous years<\/li>\n<li>In the RAE 18 subjects rank in the top 20 for research in the UK: American Studies first, Politics second and Art History third<\/li>\n<li>Sussex is ranked as \u2018the place to be\u2019 by international students for the third year running<\/li>\n<li>Junior Research Scheme is set up to encourage UG students to take up an academic career<\/li>\n<li>Sussex Research themes are set up: Environment and Health; Digital and Social Media; Culture and Heritage; Mind and Brain; Citizenship and Democratisation; and Global transformations<\/li>\n<li>BSMS has its first 94 graduates<\/li>\n<li>First 37 Business Studies students graduate from SPRU<\/li>\n<li>The Library trials 24-hour opening<\/li>\n<li>A new social networking site set up: SPLASH<\/li>\n<li>Sussex forms a partnership with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew<\/li>\n<li>The University is voted the healthiest workplace in Brighton<\/li>\n<li>A new teaching block is planned for 2009-10<\/li>\n<li>A new Arts academic building is planned, with building to commence in 2010<\/li>\n<li>A new heating system is implemented that will reduce the University\u2019s carbon footprint<\/li>\n<li>The International Summer School celebrates its 10th anniversary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice-Chancellor Michael Farthing The new strategic plan Making the Future is published Plans are developed to introduce 12 new schools from August 2009 Lord Attenborough steps down after 10 years as Chancellor and 40 years\u2019 service to the University Proposals are announced to redevelop the Gardner centre National Student Survey shows Sussex has 86 per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}