Edited sentence: An account of Prof.At this event, the University's new Coat of Arms  were on display.In 1995, Professor Simon Lee was appointed new Rector & Chief Executive.In 2003, Professor Gerald J.In December 2006, the University announced the Archbishop Desmond Tutu will officially open a War and Peace Research Centre - accepting a personal invitation from Hope's VC.It has a rich tradition stretching back over 160 years of opening up opportunities for a well-rounded education.It was the imaginative thought, vision and determination of Archbishop Derek Worlock and Bishop David Sheppard that inspired these three colleges to combine in 1980, under the leadership of Dr James Burke, into an ecumenical federation with the holding title of The Liverpool Institute of Higher Education.John Elford).Lee's 8 years at Hope was been published by Liverpool University Press (edited by R.Liverpool Hope University is one of the oldest higher education institutions in the North West of England.Pillay, from Otago University in New Zealand, was appointed Rector & Chief Executive.The University is the UK's only fully ecumenical institution with over 8,200 students and 800 faculty staff.The values to which the University aspires include the fulfilment of its mission "to educate the whole person in mind, body and spirit" through striving to be open, accessible and inclusive to those of all faiths and beliefs.They provided some of the first opportunities for women to enter higher education in England.They were supplemented on Merseyside in 1964, over a century later, when a second Catholic education college, Christ's College, admitted its first students