Talk:St Cross College, Oxford

message: "Ultimately" is your view. There is a cross, then a "holy cross", then a "st cross", then a church called st cross, then a road called st cross road, then a college on st cross road, then a st cross college and then a crest that matches the name. Please respect other sensitivities in the college and the intentions of the founders of the college. Please do not give a religious character to St Cross; it is not a PPH.
15/03/07 Vanuatu92
Please respect the fact that the college is not religiously affiliated. The name was NOT given as a religious meaning but because of the location of the early buildings.
Vanuatu92
Anyone know the colours from the scarf? – Kaihsu 16:07, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: All right, they are added now, but the width and proportion might be wrong. – Kaihsu 15:07, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
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message: St Cross College is not a constituent college of the University of Oxford nor is it a permanent private hall, but it is rather a society or department of the University that calls itself a college. It is indeed a graduate college, but it is not a constituent college because it does not have a Royal Charter and is dependent on the University. You can find this spelled out in the University Statutes and Regulations as follows: https://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/statutes/regulations/517-122.shtml
This is not a secret, but it is not well known. St Cross admits this on its on webpage as follows:
"St Cross is one of the smaller graduate colleges at Oxford, with one of the smallest endowments (less than £8m). To all intents and purposes we operate as a College with a governing body, however, we are still a department of the University. This is the primary reason for asking you today to consider making or changing your Will to benefit the endowment of St Cross. Our aim is to become independent but we have some way to go before the College can be eligible for Royal Charter status." Link: https://www.stx.ox.ac.uk/alumni/support-st-cross/legacy
In effect, St Cross is a graduate college that is legally a society of the University. The correct wording for this article would be "St Cross College is a graduate college of the University of Oxford. Somewhere could be added: It is not a constituent college, but rather a society of the University and is thus not an independent college with a Royal Charter (as are all constituent college of the University), but remains subject to University oversight until such time in the future that it achieves Royal Charter. --IACOBVS (talk) 08:36, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: See discussion below. While St Cross is not a "college of the University" by statute and rather a "society of the University", the term constituent college is not an official term used by the University of Oxford. All colleges, societies, and Permanent Private Halls designated by University statute are constituent members. St Benet's Hall refers to itself as a "constituent body" of the University. Thus, I see no reason now to deny this designation to Cross. My objection is thus withdrawn. --IACOBVS (talk) 22:29, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  St Cross College is not a constituent college of the University of Oxford