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58-510: Penryn Campus (formerly Tremough Campus , Cornwall Campus and similar names) is a university campus in Penryn, Cornwall , England, UK. The campus is occupied by two university institutions: Falmouth University and the University of Exeter , with the shared buildings, facilities and services provided by Falmouth Exeter Plus. Located on a site bought in 1998, the campus was developed via

116-497: A common enterprise and linked it back to the early history of Dartington. This commitment ran deep in the courses, affecting almost all curriculum decisions and approaches to the work. But, in view of its educational rather than training remit, Dartington was not at any point offering a training in Community Arts or other vocational areas. Rather, the focus was to expose students to practical and theoretical questions regarding

174-407: A common modular template, which included a common approach to off-campus work in the final year and a common approach to Cultural Studies which had previously been taught differently in the separate departments. A final year dissertation was now included as part of the common approach. During this phase, the following programmes were available: Several new courses were introduced during this phase of

232-642: A fully-fledged college of arts. The 1950s also saw the formation of the Dartington String Quartet, 1958–1981, which became internationally famous and would play a significant part in the subsequent the musical life of the College for two decades. The new College was opened in 1961 within the public sector with local authority support. The Dartington Hall Trust would continue to own the College's buildings and to extend these as time went on. The College's development can best be described in

290-555: A given institution, either academic or non-academic. Examples include the Googleplex and Apple Park . The word derives from a Latin word for "field" and was first used to describe the large field adjacent Nassau Hall of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University ) in 1774. The field separated Princeton from the small nearby town. Some other American colleges later adopted the word to describe individual fields at their own institutions, but "campus" did not yet describe

348-600: A key factor in recruitment. During the 1970s and 1980s, new degree courses were set up in Music, Theatre and Visual Art. The courses were now validated by the CNAA ( Council for National Academic Awards ). During this period, College resources, including space and technical support, were steadily improved and staffing was diversified and enhanced. For initial and for continuing validation, adequate levels of student achievement in practice and theory had to be demonstrated. Once established,

406-636: A large number of associated organisations and events. These included numerous industries, gardens, farms, research projects, training schemes, short courses, conferences, talks and festivals. Taken together, they contributed significantly to the region and to the wider world and enriched the environment of the College. Some continue to this day. Besides the College, other educational and training initiatives included: Dartington Hall School (1926–1987), The Devon Centre for Further Education (1963–89), Schumacher College : (started in 1990) and The Old Postern Youth Training Scheme (1979–91). Other arts initiatives besides

464-543: A link corridor to the older Media Centre. The Performance Centre (PC), now known as The Academy of Music and Theatre Arts (AMATA), was completed in Summer 2010 at the south of the campus and is predominantly a facility for the subjects formerly taught at the Dartington College of Arts , following the move of Dartington College of Arts to Falmouth from Totnes, Devon, in 2004. Two further buildings were completed for

522-492: A number of phases, as set out below, although with overlap of individual courses across these phases. In each phase the structure and rationale of the College shifted, largely as a survival strategy in the face of changes in local and national policy and funding. The College managed to keep its independence and ethos throughout, but not without difficulty. Peter Cox, the founding principal, who had previously been Warden of The Dartington Hall Arts Centre, did more than anyone to ensure

580-404: A period of time, starting with Music, initially led by Doris Gould, and then Dance and Drama, initially led by Ruth Foster. The Art course was the last of the three to come on stream in 1967 led by Ivor Weeks. The strong influence of Corsham ( Bath Academy of Art ) was a feature of the art teaching at Dartington since the majority of the staff in the early years were Corsham trained. In addition to

638-678: A place for training practitioners, but also for its emphasis on the role of the arts in the wider community. The College was one of a complex of organisations linked to the Dartington Hall Trust, mostly grouped on, or around, the Dartington Hall estate in South Devon. The College emerged out of the already well established activities in arts, education and social and economic reconstruction instigated and funded by Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst at Dartington Hall from

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696-558: A setting over time, find an appropriate strategy of intervention and work in, or out, of College at different stages as circumstances required. Choices of residency varied enormously, from a light house, to a fish shop, to a water company, to working with a single child with a disability. After 1990, a unified strategy for off-campus work was adopted across the College, taking the form of an individually negotiated contextual enquiry project, with no general stipulation as to where it could take place: many students went abroad. In all cases, whatever

754-497: A single framework across the undergraduate programme leading to three-year courses as either single honours, or combined awards. The entire programme was established and initially led by the poet John Hall. A common modular structure would make cross-disciplinary work and collaboration across courses easier than it had been in the earlier years. Major and minor options were available, which also encouraged students to explore across disciplines. Existing degree courses were re-written within

812-799: A tenant of the Trust, ultimately made it critically vulnerable. The crisis led to a controversial and contested merger with the then University College Falmouth and the relocation of most courses and some staff and students to Cornwall. The courses were based in a new purpose-built Performing Arts Centre on the Penryn campus. Main programmes in Dance, Choreography, Theatre, Acting and Music with some, more vocational additions including Arts Management, still continue successfully in that location. Falmouth already had, and still has, its own long-established art school with courses in visual art that are also ongoing. Writing

870-534: Is to support expected growth from 3,500 to 5,000 students on the campus. In 2016 a new sports centre, gym and nursery was opened. The Peter Lanyon (PL) building, located between the Daphne du Maurier building and Block I of Glasney Parc is a zig-zag-shaped building housing further lecture, seminar and study facilities (particularly for University of Exeter's humanities subjects taught at the campus), and containing University College Falmouth's Photography Centre and having

928-665: The Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC) scheme with finance from the EU and the UK Government and was opened in 2004. The 70-acre (28 ha) site was a convent school for the local community which was bought in 1998 by Falmouth College of Arts , as it was then known. Tremough Convent School educated girls aged 3–18 and closed 31 July 1998. The Universities of Exeter and Plymouth both expressed an interest in

986-687: The Stonehouse area of Plymouth, run initially by Will Fitzgerald and Roger Sell. Joe Richard’s role-playing work in Dartmoor prison , and with young offenders at Glenthorne Youth Treatment Centre in Birmingham, is also relevant here. Music in Society opted for a more limited student placement, set in Bristol , and lasting just one term. It included work in schools and other community settings. It

1044-487: The 2012/13 academic year. For the first time in 2012/13 a limited amount of accommodation, both on campus and at Penryn Station, was made available to returning students further into their degrees than first year. The Students' Union on site, referred to as the SU (Falmouth and Exeter Students' Union), provides student representation across all aspects of the campus. They are represented at the highest levels of decision making on

1102-543: The 2012/13 academic year: The Environmental and Sustainability Institute (ESI) at the very top of the campus, and the Academy for Innovation and Research (AIR) towards the northern entrance. Both of these are predominantly research buildings for Exeter and Falmouth respectively. The original Tremough House (TH) which had been owned by the Foxe family, is used as administrative offices and further seminar space in addition to being

1160-523: The Assisted Status programme. To make matters worse, in 1989, accounts showed that the College was operating at a considerable loss. Extreme measures were required if it were to survive. Most contentiously, the relatively new BA Hons. in Art and Social Context was discontinued, with the loss of its staff and facilities. The College would now focus purely on Performance Arts. The unique four-year format of

1218-577: The Campus. It provides resources for new and existing businesses. The building opened in January 2012 and it is managed by University of Plymouth , which also manages a similar innovation centre in Pool . With differing academic emphasis, but with an obvious need to provide student accommodation and non-academic staff for the smooth running of the campus facilities, the two universities collectively established

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1276-506: The College included: Besides the above, the College also ran its own festivals, summer schools, short courses and special events which ran for certain periods in its history, mostly out of term time, altogether significantly enriching the cultural life of the area. The degree in Art and Social Context, one of the main casualties of the 1989 financial crisis at Dartington, was re-established in The Faculty of Art Media and Design at what

1334-492: The College's development. They included: A College Research Programme was formally established in 1996, approved within the UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), with students taking PhDs. and a number of staff engaging in their own dramaturgy, site-specific theatre, and musical practices. This work was coordinated, first by Edward Cowie , and later by Prof. Antonia Payne. Dartington hosted

1392-461: The College's viability in the early years. He worked at Dartington for over 40 years, from 1940 to 1983. The initial focus was on separate specialist teacher training courses in Music (led by Michael Lane), Dance/Drama (led by Ruth Foster) and Visual Art (led by Ivor Weeks), each of which was housed in its own department. The courses were based on the belief that teachers in the arts should be practitioners in their own right. Approval of this programme

1450-837: The Porter's Lodge) located towards the top of the student village opposite Glasney Parc's K-O blocks. An accommodation strategy was compiled in November 2010 with the aim to expand university accommodation outside the campus to accommodate a forecast growth of 800 new students between September 2011 and September 2015. Construction commenced in August 2011 of new student accommodation suitable for up to 233 new students adjacent to Penryn Railway Station , around 10 minutes walk from Tremough Campus, and another five blocks of on-campus accommodation were under construction providing an extra 224 rooms. Both developments were expected to be completed in time for

1508-576: The Scottish and English collegiate system. The campus evolved from the cloistered model in Europe to a diverse set of independent styles in the United States. Early colonial colleges were all built in proprietary styles, with some contained in single buildings, such as the campus of Princeton University or arranged in a version of the cloister reflecting American values, such as Harvard's. Both

1566-628: The South West Regional Development Agency (SWRDA). In 2011 as part of Phase II of developments on Tremough Campus, the name of the campus was changed to "University Campus Tremough". In 2012 Tremough Campus Services, the charity formed by Falmouth University and the University of Exeter to manage university activities in the Falmouth and Penryn area, changed its name to Falmouth Exeter Plus. The shared campus

1624-560: The Tremough or Falmouth University's Woodlane Campus 4 miles (6.4 km) away. Some of the sports teams are run under the Camborne School of Mines name despite players not being exclusively CSM or University of Exeter students. 50°10′16″N 5°07′24″W  /  50.170990°N 5.123297°W  / 50.170990; -5.123297 Campus A modern campus is a collection of buildings and grounds that belong to

1682-755: The Upper Stannary is a mezzanine recreational area. The entire Stannary plays host to many Freshers' Fortnight events, as well as various nights throughout the year. "Koofi," a new cafe situated on the back of the Porter's Lodge building in Glasney Parc, opened to students in October 2010. There is a wide range of sports and recreation activities available to students, ranging from Hockey and Football to Musical Theatre and Bee Keeping. SU activities are open to all University College Falmouth and University of Exeter in Cornwall students whether they are based at

1740-581: The already adopted Truro and Falmouth campuses. The student population on the campus is around 6,000. The campus is the home of Camborne School of Mines and the Institute of Cornish Studies , both of which are departments of the University of Exeter. The Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI) is a £30 million research centre with a remit to find solutions to problems of environmental change. It has three research themes: clean technologies, natural environment, and social science and sustainability. It

1798-494: The approach, the idea was to find a role for the arts in communities or settings the established arts did not normally serve. All of this work required students to develop an open and responsive attitude in tailoring their practice to particular circumstances. Broader social and cultural questions inevitably arose in the work and were addressed in strands of Cultural Studies throughout, as well as in one-to-one and group supervision of project work. The Dartington Hall Trust initiated

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1856-412: The beginning of the end for Dartington's involvement in specialist arts teacher training. At the same time there was a shift in funding sources for colleges in higher education from local authority to central government. Fortunately for Dartington, the College was able to apply for so called "assisted status," enabling Devon County Council to top up the finances and the students to apply for grants, then

1914-400: The campus designs and the architecture of colleges throughout the country have evolved in response to trends in the broader world, with most representing several different contemporary and historical styles and arrangements. The meaning expanded to include the whole university institutional property during the 20th century, with the old meaning persisting into the 1950s in some places. In

1972-459: The campus. In addition to its representative role, the SU is also responsible for putting on the annual Freshers' Fortnight program of events for new students, as well as many other events throughout the academic year. Social life on campus centres around a building known as the Stannary . The Lower Stannary is used as a restaurant during the day and is the venue for any larger events on campus;

2030-404: The charity Tremough Campus Services. It is responsible for the overall maintenance of the site including the gymnasium, catering services, bars, shops and the student accommodation with profits going back to the two institutions. The charity also manages services on University College Falmouth's Woodlane Campus and further accommodation at Tuke House in Falmouth which was opened in 2006. From 2012/13

2088-508: The early 1990s the term began to be used to describe a company's office building complex, most notably when Apple 's Infinite Loop campus was first built, which at the time was exclusively for research and development. The Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Washington , is another example of this usage, although it was built in the 1980s, before the term was applied to company property. In the 21st century, hospitals and even airports sometimes use

2146-598: The journal Performance Research from 2002-2007. Ric Allsopp, one of its co-founders, was a Research Fellow and Visiting Reader in Performance Research (1997–2001) and Director of Writing 2001-2004. College Principals in this period included: Janet Ritterman , Kevin Thompson and Andrew Brewerton. A belief in the value of active participation in the arts in the wider community bound the College’s work into

2204-433: The longer courses inevitably led to higher standards overall. The following degree courses were set up during this period: Following Peter Cox, College Principals in this period included Curtis Roosevelt , Peter Hulton and Janet Ritterman . With the 1988 Education Reform Act , the College found itself again in a financially vulnerable position. Changes in national policy put an end to previous local authority support via

2262-411: The mid 1920s. Under the umbrella of The Dartington Hall Trust Arts Department, a variety of courses had been offered as privately run initiatives during the 1940s and 1950s, including the first music course started by Imogen Holst in 1944. The Adult Education Centre, which opened in 1955 under the direction of Ivor Weeks, mainly offering evening, short and part-time courses, provided a springboard for

2320-499: The new courses for the 18 plus age group, a two-year music preparatory course for 16 to 18 year olds, led by Nigel Amherst was established in 1961 and ran successfully for many years. Similar courses in the other arts were set up around this time, but ran on a smaller scale and for much shorter periods. The James Report in 1972 led to a change of Government policy, which now required all teachers in Britain to be graduates. It signalled

2378-542: The offices of the English department, whilst the old chapel has been converted into a lecture theatre. The walled Italianate gardens and orchard between Tremough House and the Performance Centre are still intact and well maintained, with the annual FXU end of year Garden party held in these gardens. The Tremough Innovation Centre (TIC) is a three-storey building on land acquired by Cornwall Council adjacent to

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2436-557: The organisation was renamed to "Falmouth Exeter Plus" with a new logo and website. Campus accommodation is at the student village made up of Glasney Parc, where there are 800 en-suite study bedrooms with shared kitchens in twelve 2–3 storey buildings (A Block to O Block), and Glasney View, where there are 600 further rooms of similar facility in 14 3 storey buildings (VA Block to VN Block). Most general accommodation related services such as collection of postal packages and report of accommodation faults are dealt with in 'Glasney Lodge' (Formerly

2494-439: The project. The University of Plymouth later withdrew, leaving University of Exeter in partnership with Falmouth University : the site is held on a 125-year lease. The campus was developed as part of the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC) initiative and was officially opened in 2004. The bulk of the investment in the campus derived from European Union Objective One funding, matched by UK Government funding provided through

2552-479: The role of the arts in the wider world. A major device for doing this was through off-campus project work. Approaches to this varied according to art form, but converged over time. Thus, in the 70s and 80s, Theatre went for a whole third year experience out-of-college in urban outposts, where work could be, to an extent, ongoing from year to year. Outposts existed in Rotherhithe , London, run by Alan Read and in

2610-399: The south of the building, while most of the top floor is used by University of Exeter's Centre for Ecology and Conservation and Camborne School of Mines. An extension of the building's library, lecture facilities and relocation of the career offices, collectively known as The Exchange (EX) was completed on the north-east side of the current building for the 2012/13 academic year. The endeavour

2668-495: The term to describe the territory of their respective facilities. The word campus has also been applied to European universities, although some such institutions (in particular, "ancient" universities such as Bologna , Padua , Oxford and Cambridge ) are characterized by ownership of individual buildings in university town -like urban settings rather than sprawling park-like lawns in which buildings are placed. Dartington College of Arts Dartington College of Arts

2726-479: The theatre degree was another casualty, along with its urban outposts. The option to study Indian music was dropped. In the shake up, the Polytechnic South West (later University of Plymouth ) agreed to play an active part in a necessarily unequal partnership, assuming a full quality assurance role and making some conditions for their support. The parameters were set for a new academic structure:

2784-446: The whole university property. A school might have one space called a campus, another called a field, and still another called a yard. The tradition of a campus began with the medieval European universities where the students and teachers lived and worked together in a cloistered environment. The notion of the importance of the setting to academic life later migrated to America, and early colonial educational institutions were based on

2842-418: Was a sense that the College might be facing closure, although there was no inevitability in that outcome. In the years 2006-8 the College was far from being a failing institution. Student numbers at undergraduate and postgraduate level were higher than they had ever been and the College was performing well. Whilst Government policy was to reduce the number of smaller colleges in favour of larger institutions, this

2900-465: Was a specialist arts college located at Dartington Hall in the south-west of England, offering courses at degree and postgraduate level together with an arts research programme. It existed for a period of almost 50 years, from its foundation in 1961, to when it closed at Dartington in 2010. A version of the College was then re-established in what became Falmouth University , and the Dartington title

2958-443: Was already taught at Falmouth, so Performance Writing was not continued, apart from at research and Masters level. In 2022, the Trust opened a new Dartington Arts School offering a programme of postgraduate courses across the arts with an emphasis on ecology, place and imagination. Students study both on-site and remotely. This new initiative will continue to run in parallel with Dartington’s existing Schumacher College , which offers

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3016-459: Was based on an association with Rolle College , a teacher training establishment in Exmouth, which would offer a top-up year following either one or two years at Dartington. Although the three separate departments went their own way to a large extent, there was some commonality of approach: a John Dewey-inspired philosophy of "learning by doing." The teacher training courses were established over

3074-400: Was coordinated by Gordon Jones, David Ward and Nick Brace. Art adopted a somewhat different artists residency , model, in which students would individually negotiate a setting in the local region to which a significant part of their final year's work would relate, directly or indirectly involving members of the public. This allowed a flexible and ongoing engagement, where students could research

3132-408: Was not the reason for, or cause, of the closure and there is no knowing how it would have played out in the ensuing years had it remained open. For a while there seemed to be ways out through an increase in student numbers and the upgrading of student accommodation on the estate, but the College and the Trust could not agree on these matters and the College’s status of not owning its own campus and being

3190-570: Was officially opened for the 2004/5 academic year as "CUC Tremough Campus." In 2013, with the continued growth of the University of Exeter and the recent inauguration of Falmouth University, further discussions were undertaken in how the now three university campuses in Cornwall (Treliske in Truro, Tremough in Penryn and Woodlane in Falmouth) would be represented. On 18 July 2013, University Campus Tremough changed its name to "Penryn Campus" in line with

3248-726: Was officially opened in April 2013, and houses over 140 researchers, professors, lecturers and PhD students. Professor Juliet Osborne (Chair of Applied Ecology at the ESI) succeeded Kevin Gaston as Director of the ESI in May 2017. The four-storey Daphne du Maurier (DDM) building houses teaching facilities that include science and engineering laboratories, IT facilities, library and lecture and seminar rooms. Falmouth University 's Design Centre occupies much of

3306-400: Was subsequently dropped. The College was one of only a few in Britain devoted exclusively to specialist practical and theoretical studies in courses spanning right across the arts. It had an international reputation as a centre for contemporary practice. As well as the courses offered, it became a meeting point for practitioners and teachers from around the world. Dartington was known not only as

3364-513: Was then Bristol Polytechnic (later to become University of the West of England ). The course was moved, along with a small contingent of ex-Dartington staff, including Chris Crickmay and Sally Morgan. The latter became course leader. It flourished in this new urban environment for a further decade. It was then gradually wound down following the departure of specialist staff. In the autumn of 2006, financial problems began to emerge once again and there

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