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2020s
The demolition of Grizedale College into a neat pile of blond bricks, and the building of its townhouses, completed a ten year project.
The Lancaster of the new millennium was more self-confident and better placed to take on global challenges, riding its way up league tables and resisting efforts by others to push it down. During 2004 to 2013 there were 48,337 Lancaster graduates involving 170 countries, an eight-fold increase from the first decade. That number will be comfortably exceeded when the full figures for the sixth decade are known.
Many elements have to come right simultaneously to make for a leading and internationally significant institution: high quality and well- motivated staff, sound and imaginative
leadership, well-respected and self-critical management, excellent facilities and strong self-belief and determination. Looking back at all but four of those sixty years, I often reflect on the consequences of the cumulative decision-making, each step building on or mitigating earlier moves, that have shaped the University. I see an institution that, while never without blemishes, was fortunate to have most of these features in place most of the time.
Importantly, the primary task of shaping the best student experience possible, including through the colleges, must be a powerful contribution to the many stories we receive of our graduates’ successes. Behind the rhetoric of degree days - staff watching people
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whose destinies they have helped to shape walk across the platform and set off for new lives - are the sorrows and joys of Lancaster and memories that will never dim. In seeking some perspective on the University’s development in its first six decades, our alumni feature amongst our proudest achievements. We salute you all!
Marion McClintock Honorary Archivist and Honorary Fellow May 2024
Royal Visit 1969
Alexandra Square 2023
2020s Students
Faraday Lecture Theatre, 1960s
Chaplaincy Centre 1990s
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