{"id":36,"date":"2011-05-05T14:16:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T14:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/?p=36"},"modified":"2011-05-05T14:19:08","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T14:19:08","slug":"1964","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/2011\/05\/05\/1964\/","title":{"rendered":"1964"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>First Chancellor Viscount Monckton dies 9 January 1965<\/li>\n<li>The first Park houses are opened: Norwich house for men and York      House for women<\/li>\n<li>New major subjects are introduced: American Studies; International      Relations; and Social Anthropology<\/li>\n<li>The School of Physical Sciences is split into MAPS (Maths and      Physics) and MOLS (Physics and Biochemistry)<\/li>\n<li>First MAs and MScs are offered, but there are not enough grants      available for everyone<\/li>\n<li>Student grants are \u00a3340 per year in 1965<\/li>\n<li>There are discussions on audio-visual (a\/v) aids and the need      for an internal television system to be set up for teaching purposes,      including the language lab<\/li>\n<li>Dr W Essyelynck becomes Director of the proposed Arts Centre      with the view to it opening in 1965-66<\/li>\n<li>MA in Management Studies is to be offered in partnership with      the Regional College of Technology<\/li>\n<li>Links are made with Herstmonceux Royal Observatory and the      Rutherford High Enrgy Lab at Harwell<\/li>\n<li>Honorary Degrees are awarded to a number of people including Albert      Finney, Henry Moore and Kenneth Kaunda<\/li>\n<li>An agreement is reached that the chapel will be called the      Meeting House and will be a general quiet meeting space on the ground      floor with the chapel on first floor<\/li>\n<li>A Data Process Committee begins to investigate the uses of      computers at the University<\/li>\n<li>Thabo Mbeki graduates with a 2:1 from the School of Social      Studies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Student numbers<\/h3>\n<p>1,504 students: 1,300 undergraduates and 204 postgraduates<\/p>\n<h3>Staff numbers<\/h3>\n<p>197 members of faculty including 28 professors and 100 lecturers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Chancellor Viscount Monckton dies 9 January 1965 The first Park houses are opened: Norwich house for men and York House for women New major subjects are introduced: American Studies; International Relations; and Social Anthropology The School of Physical Sciences is split into MAPS (Maths and Physics) and MOLS (Physics and Biochemistry) First MAs and [&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\/36"}],"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=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}