{"id":21,"date":"2011-05-05T11:02:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T11:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/2011\/05\/05\/1961-2\/"},"modified":"2011-05-05T11:17:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T11:17:42","slug":"1961","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/2011\/05\/05\/1961\/","title":{"rendered":"1961"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>16 August the Royal Charter granted<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor Rt Hon Viscount Monckton of Brenchley<\/p>\n<p>Vice-Chancellor JS Fulton<\/p>\n<p>Senior Pro-Chancellor Alderman Caffyn<\/p>\n<p>Pro-Chancellor Rt Hon The Lord Shawcross<\/p>\n<p>Pro-Vice-Chancellor Asa Briggs<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first Senate is held, comprising eight members: Vice-Chancellor Prof JS Fulton, Prof A Briggs, Prof J P Corbett, Prof D Daiches, Prof RJM Wight, D Cox, S. John &amp; Dr A M Ross<\/li>\n<li>The Second Senate meeting sets up three schools of study: English Studies, comprising English and History; European Studies, comprising History, French, German, Economics and Philosophy; and Social Studies, comprising History, Philosophy and Economics<\/li>\n<li>Four science professors are appointed to set up the Science Programme<\/li>\n<li>A total of 44 academics, eight administrative assistants and five clerical staff are appointed &bull;\tStanmer House is the main administrative centre <\/li>\n<li>Prefabs are erected for tutorials<\/li>\n<li>Knoyle Hall used for lectures &bull;\tUndergraduates are mainly lodged in the Preston Park area<\/li>\n<li>The University motto is adopted: &lsquo;Be Still and Know&rsquo;<\/li>\n<li>12 houses in Kingston are purchased to accommodate faculty<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 August the Royal Charter granted Chancellor Rt Hon Viscount Monckton of Brenchley Vice-Chancellor JS Fulton Senior Pro-Chancellor Alderman Caffyn Pro-Chancellor Rt Hon The Lord Shawcross Pro-Vice-Chancellor Asa Briggs The first Senate is held, comprising eight members: Vice-Chancellor Prof JS Fulton, Prof A Briggs, Prof J P Corbett, Prof D Daiches, Prof RJM Wight, D [&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\/21"}],"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=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}