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A head of college or head of house is the head or senior member of a college within a collegiate university. The title used varies between colleges, including dean, master, president, principal, provost, rector and warden.[1][2]

The role of the head of college varies significantly between colleges of the same university, and even more so between different universities. However, the head of college will often have responsibility for leading the governing body of the college, often acting as a chair of various college committees; for executing the decisions of the governing body through the college's organisational structure, acting as a chief executive; and for representing the college externally, both within the government of the university and further afield often in aid of fund-raising for the college.[3] The nature of the role varies in importance depending on the nature of the central university. At a loosely federated university such as the University of London or the National University of Ireland, where each member institution is self-governing and some hold university status in their own right, the head of each institution has the same level of responsibility as the vice-chancellor of a university. At more centralised universities, the heads of colleges have less power and responsibility.

University governance

Heads of colleges will often participate in the governance of the central university. Mechanisms for this very between university and include:

Terminology

Many different titles are used for heads of colleges. These have also changed with time, in particularly the recent move away from using master by colleges at Durham University,[13]Kent (where the post of heat of college was abolished),[14] Rice[15] and Yale[16] universities.

Title Parent institution College, member institution, etc.
Chief Executive University of London Institute of Cancer Research (held jointly with the title of president)[17]
University of the Highlands and Islands UHI Argyle, UHI Inverness (held jointly with the title of principal in both cases)[18]
College Magister Rice University All colleges (changed from master in 2017)[15]
Dean University of Oxford Christ Church – the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford is dean of both the college and Christ Church Cathedral.[19]
University of London London Business School[20]
Director University of London Courtauld Institute of Art,[21] London School of Economics,[22] London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine,[23] and SOAS[24]
University of the Highlands and Islands Scottish Association for Marine Science[18]
Faculty Dean Harvard University All houses[25]
Head University of the Arts London Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon colleges (joint head of all three institutions), the London College of Fashion and the London College of Communication[12]
University of Roehampton Froebel College[26]
Head of College Princeton University All colleges[27]
Yale University All colleges (changed from master in 2016)[16]
University of Roehampton Digby Stuart College,[28] Whitelands College[29] and Southlands College[30]
University of the Arts London Central St Martins[12]
House Professor Dartmouth College All houses[31]
Master University of Oxford Balliol College, Pembroke College, St Benet's Hall, St Catherine's College, St Cross College, St Peter's College, University College
University of Cambridge Christ's College, Churchill College, Clare College, Corpus Christi College, Darwin College, Downing College, Emmanuel College, Fitzwilliam College, Gonville and Caius College, Jesus College, Magdalene College, Pembroke College, Peterhouse, St Catharine's College, St Edmund's College, St John's College, Selwyn College, Sidney Sussex College, Trinity College and Trinity Hall
Durham University Grey College[32] and Hatfield College[33]
Mistress University of Cambridge Girton College
President University of Oxford Corpus Christi College, Kellogg College, Magdalen College, Reuben College, St John's College, Trinity College and Wolfson College
University of Cambridge Clare Hall, Hughes Hall, Lucy Cavendish College, Murray Edwards College, Queens' College and Wolfson College
University of Dublin Trinity College (held jointly with the title of provost)[34]
University of London City,[35] Institute of Cancer Research (held jointly with the title of chief executive),[17] King's College London (held jointly with the title of principal),[36] Queen Mary (held jointly with the title of principal)[37] and University College London (held jointly with the title of provost)[38]
National University of Ireland All constituent universities and recognised colleges
Principal University of Oxford Brasenose College, Green Templeton College, Harris Manchester College, Hertford College, Jesus College, Lady Margaret Hall, Linacre College, Mansfield College, St Anne's College, St Edmund Hall, St Hilda's College, St Hugh's College and Somerville College
University of Cambridge Homerton College and Newnham College
Durham University Collingwood College[39] (changed from master between 1985 and 1989[40][41]), John Snow College,[42] Josephine Butler College,[43] South College,[44] St Aidan's College,[45] St Chad's College, St Cuthbert's Society,[46] the College of St Hild and St Bede,[47] St John's College, St Mary's College,[48] Stephenson College,[49] Trevelyan College,[50] University College (changed from master in 2020),[13] Ustinov College[51] and Van Mildert College[52] (changed from master between 1985 and 1989[40][41])
University of London King's College London (held jointly with the title of president),[36] Queen Mary (held jointly with the title of president),[37] the Royal Academy of Music,[53] the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama,[54] Royal Holloway[55] and the Royal Veterinary College[56]
University of York Derwent College,[57] Langwith College,[58] Vanbrugh College,[59] Wentworth College[60] (other colleges do not have named heads of college)
Lancaster University All colleges[9]
University of the Highlands and Islands UHI Argyle, UHI Inverness (held jointly with the title of chief executive in both cases), Highland Theological College, UHI Outer Hebrides, UHI Moray, UHI Shetland, UHI North Highland, Orkney College UHI, UHI Perth, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, UHI West Highland[18]
University of South Wales Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama[61]
Provost University of Oxford Oriel College, Queen's College and Worcester College
University of Cambridge King's College
University of Dublin Trinity College[34]
University of London University College London (held jointly with the title of president)[38]
University of California, San Diego All colleges[62]
University of California, Santa Cruz All colleges[63]
Rector University of Oxford Exeter College and Lincoln College
University of Notre Dame All halls[64]
Vice-chancellor University of London Birkbeck[65] and St George's[66]
Warden University of Oxford All Souls College, Keble College, Merton College, New College, Nuffield College, St Antony's College and Wadham College
University of Cambridge Robinson College
University of London Goldsmiths[67]

In the case of some older colleges whose statutes are in Latin, the titles used in the modern era are English translations of those found in the statutes, e.g. "provost" for praepositus, and "warden" for custos.

See also

References

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  41. ^ a b "Calendar". Durham University. 1989. p. 204.
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