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Relativism and the Foundations of Liberalism Graham Long Moral relativism is often regarded as both fatally flawed and incompatible with liberalism. In the second half of the 19th century, pressure was building upon universities to open up higher education to women. It required women to pass five subjects at an ordinary level and one at honours level and entitled them to hold a degree from the university. She entered the university in , making St Andrews the first university in Scotland to admit female undergraduates on the same level as men.
Up until the start of the 20th century, St Andrews offered a traditional education based on classical languages, divinity and philosophical studies, and was slow to embrace more practical fields such as science and medicine that were becoming more popular at other universities. In response to the need for modernisation and in order to increase student numbers and alleviate financial problems, the university merged with University College, Dundee in , which had a focus on scientific and professional subjects.
After the incorporation of University College Dundee, St Andrews' various problems generally receded. Of note is that, up until , many students who obtained a degree from the University of St Andrews had in fact spent most, and sometimes all, of their undergraduate career based in Dundee. As the 20th century progressed, it became increasingly popular among the Scottish upper classes to send their children to the country's oldest higher learning institution, [ citation needed ] and the university's student population rose sharply. As a result of this, St Andrews lost its capacity to provide degrees in many areas such as Law, Accountancy, Dentistry and Engineering, while it also lost the right to confer the undergraduate medical degree MBChB.
However, the university has prospered in other ways. St Andrews' historical links with the United States predate the country's independence. James Wilson , a signer of the Declaration of Independence , attended but did not graduate from St Andrews. Other prominent American figures associated with St Andrews include Scottish American industrialist Andrew Carnegie , who was elected Rector in and whose name is given to the prestigious Carnegie Scholarship , and Edward Harkness , an American philanthropist who in provided for the construction of St Salvator's Hall.
Links with the United States have been maintained into the present day and continue to grow. In , Louise Richardson , an Irish-American political scientist specialized in the study of terrorism, was drawn from Harvard to serve as the first female Principal and Vice Chancellor of St Andrews.
Active recruitment of students from North America first began in , with Americans now making up around 1 in 6 of the student population in In , Hillary Clinton , former United States Secretary of State, took part in the academic celebration marking the th anniversary of the founding of the University of St Andrews. I do take comfort from knowing there is a long tradition of Americans being warmly welcomed here at St Andrews. Every year I learn you educate more than one thousand American students, exposing them to new ideas and perspectives as well as according them with a first class education.
I've been proud and fortunate to hire a few St Andrews alumni over the years and I thank you for training them so well. As with the other ancient universities of Scotland, the governance of the university is determined by the Universities Scotland Act This Act created three bodies: The General Council is a standing advisory body of all the graduates , academics and former academics of the university. It meets twice a year and appoints a business committee to manage business between these meetings. Its most important functions are to appoint two assessors to the University Court and elect the university's chancellor.
The University Court is the body responsible for administrative and financial matters, and is in effect the governing body of the university. It is chaired by the rector , who is elected by the matriculated students of the University. Several lay members are also co-opted and must include a fixed number of alumni of the University. Its members include all the professors of the university, certain senior readers , a number of senior lecturers and lecturers and three elected student senate representatives — one from the arts and divinity faculty, one from the science and medicine faculty and one postgraduate student.
It is responsible for authorising degree programmes and issuing all degrees to graduates, and for managing student discipline. The President of the Senate is the University Principal. The Principal is the chief executive of the university and is assisted in that role by several key officers, including the Deputy Principal, Master of the United College and Quaestor. The principal has responsibility for the overall running of the university and presides over the University Senate. In Scotland, the position of rector exists at the four ancient universities St Andrews, Glasgow , Aberdeen and Edinburgh — as well as the University of Dundee.
The post was made an integral part of these universities by the Universities Scotland Act The Rector of the University of St Andrews chairs meetings of the University Court, the governing body of the university; and is elected by the matriculated student body to ensure that their needs are adequately considered by the university's leadership. Through St Andrews' history a number of notable people have been elected to the post, including the actor John Cleese , industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie , author and poet Rudyard Kipling and the British Prime Minister Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery.
The university encompasses three colleges: The purpose of the colleges at St Andrews is mainly ceremonial, as students are housed in separate residential halls or private accommodations. United College is responsible for all students in the faculties of arts, sciences and medicine, and is based around St Salvator's Quadrangle. The four academic faculties collectively encompass 18 schools.
A dean is appointed by the Master of the United College to oversee the day-to-day running of each faculty. Students apply to become members of a particular faculty, as opposed to the school within which teaching is based. The faculties and their affiliated schools are:.
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Certain subjects are offered both within the Faculties of Arts and Sciences, the six subjects are: The content of the subject is the same regardless of the faculty. Martinmas, on 11 November, was originally the feast of Saint Martin of Tours , a 4th-century bishop and hermit.
Candlemas originally fell on 2 February, the day of the feast of the Purification , or the Presentation of Christ. Martinmas semester runs from early September until mid-December, with examinations taking place just before the Christmas break. There follows an inter-semester period when Martinmas semester business is concluded and preparations are made for the new Candlemas semester, which starts in January and concludes with examinations at the end of May.
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Graduation is celebrated at the end of June. These can be awarded with honours; the majority of students graduate with honours. In , St Andrews was named as the university with the joint second highest graduate employment rate of any UK university along with Warwick , with The university receives applications mainly through UCAS and the Common Application with the latest figures showing that there are generally 12 applications per undergraduate place available. To commemorate the university's th anniversary the th Lecture Series was commissioned in , which brought diverse speakers such as former Prime Minister Gordon Brown , naturalist David Attenborough and linguist Noam Chomsky to St Andrews.
As part of the celebration of the th establishment of the King James Library, the King James Library lectures were initiated in on the subject of 'The Meaning of the Library'. The most famous lecture in this series is that given by J. St Andrews has developed student exchange partnerships with universities around the globe, though offerings are largely concentrated in North America, Europe, and Asia. Exchange opportunities vary by School and eligibility requirements are specific to each exchange program.
Jones Memorial Trust funds the Robert T. St Andrews participates in the Erasmus Programme and has direct exchanges with universities across Europe. Exchanges are also available for postgraduate research students, such as the opportunity for social scientists to study at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. More recently, St Andrews has developed exchanges with partners in Asia and Australia. The University has teaching facilities, libraries, student housing and other buildings spread throughout the town.
The university has two major sites within the town. The University of St Andrews maintains one of the most extensive university library collections in the United Kingdom, which includes significant holdings of books, manuscripts, muniments and photographs. The library collection contains over a million volumes and over two hundred thousand rare and antique books.
The university library was founded by King James VI in , with the donation of works from the royal collection, at the urging of George Gledstanes , the then chancellor of St Andrews, although the libraries of the colleges of St Leonard's College , St Salvator's College and St Mary's College had existed prior to this. The library's main building is located on North Street, and houses over 1,, books.
In the University purchased the vacant Martyrs' Church on North Street, with the purpose of providing reading rooms for the Special Collections department and University research students and staff. The University maintains several museums and galleries, open for free to the public. The Bell Pettigrew Museum houses the University's natural history collections.
Among its collections are the remains of several extinct species such as the dodo and Tasmanian tiger as well as fossilised fish from the nearby Dura Den , Fife, which when found in stimulated the debate on evolution. The University has two collegiate chapels.
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The chapel of St Salvator's or "Sallies" as it is affectionately known was founded in by Bishop James Kennedy , and today it is a centre of university life. It is the university's oldest building, some parts dating from [] and is the smaller of the two chapels. St Salvator's and St Leonard's both have their own choirs, whose members are drawn from the student body. St Andrews is characterised amongst Scottish universities as having a significant number of students who live in university-maintained accommodation. All are now co-educational and non-smoking, and several are catered.
Since , the university's endowment has been invested under the United Nations Principles of Responsible Investment UNPRI initiative with a sustainable ethical policy enforced since The Guardbridge Biomass Energy Centre will generate power using locally sourced wood-fuelled biomass, hot water will be transported to the university through underground pipes to heat and cool laboratories and student residences.
Work began onsite in and the centre is expected to be operational by December In October , the university received permission to build six medium-sized turbines at Kenly Wind Farm, near Boarhills. The Students' Association has 9 subcommittees: Every matriculated student is automatically a member of each subcommittee. Union facilities include a Blackwells bookshop, several bars and the University's Student Support Services.
St Andrews is home to over student societies which cover a wide range of interests. All matriculated students are members of the " Union Debating Society ", a student debating society that holds weekly public debates in Lower Parliament Hall, often hosts notable speakers, and participates in competitive debating in both national and international competitions.
Founded in , it claims to be the oldest continuously-run student debating society in the world. There is a strong tradition of student media at St Andrews. The university's two newspapers are The Saint , a fortnightly publication and The Stand , an online publication founded in The university's Music Society comprises many student-run musical groups, including the university's flagship symphony orchestra, wind band, and chorus. One of the oldest choirs in the university is the St Andrews University Madrigal Group which performs a concert each term and has an annual summer tour.
There are regular dramatic and comedic performances staged at the Barron theatre. The Kate Kennedy Club plays a significant role in the life of the university, maintaining university traditions such as the Kate Kennedy Procession, in which students parade through the town dressed as eminent figures from the university's history, and organising social events such as the Opening and May balls. Founded in , the club is composed of around thirty matriculated students, who are selected by the club's members. The club has received criticism from the university's principal, Louise Richardson, and alumna the Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton over its previously male-only admission policy.
St Andrews is home to several other private clubs such as The Kensington Club , founded in by Alexander Laird Balgonie and is an all-male dining club that organises private events for members. Established in , it is affiliated to BUCS and encompasses around sixty sport clubs, [] who compete at both a recreational and high-performance level.
Thomson and Alfred Clunies-Ross. In order to become a student at the university [] a person must take an oath in Latin at the point of matriculation , called the Sponsio Academica , although this tradition now has been digitised and is agreed to as part of an online matriculation process. Nos ingenui adolescentes, nomina subscribentes, sancte pollicemur nos preceptoribus obsequium debitum exhibituros in omnibus rebus ad disciplinam et bonos mores pertinentibus, Senatus Academici autoritati obtemperaturos, et hujus Academiae Andreanae emolumentum et commodum, quantum in nobis sit, procuraturos, ad quemcunque vitae statum pervenerimus.
Item agnoscimus si quis nostrum indecore turbulenterve se gesserit vel si parum diligentem in studiis suis se praebuerit neque admonitus se in melius correxerit eum licere Senatui Academico vel poena congruenti adficere vel etiam ex Universitate expellere. We students who set down our names hereunder in all good faith make a solemn promise that we shall show due deference to our teachers in all matters relating to order and good conduct, that we shall be subject to the authority of the Senatus Academicus and shall, whatever be the position we attain hereafter, promote, so far as lies in our power, the profit and the interest in our University of St Andrews.
Further, we recognise that, if any of us conducts ourselves in an unbecoming or disorderly manner or shows insufficient diligence in their studies and, though admonished, does not improve, it is within the power of the Senatus Academicus to inflict on such students a fitting penalty or even expel them from the University. One of the most conspicuous traditions at St Andrews is the wearing of academic dress, particularly the distinctive red undergraduate gown of the United College.
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