The University Of Canterbury

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28413, 21 October 1957, Page 10

The University Of Canterbury

Canterbury University College will this week assume its new title of the University of Canterbury. The amending act does little more than alter the names of the college and of its principal officers. Although provision is also made to vary the constitution of the university council, this has nothing to do with the new titles, the changes in representation having been proposed many months ago and included in the present legislation as a matter of convenience. The Rector (Dr. F. J. Llewellyn), who will be known as the vice-chancellor in future, noted the real significance of this week’s changes when he said there could be no going back. The University of Canterbury must now move steadily toward the status of a full degree-granting university. As the vice-chancellor also said to a meeting of graduates, the new University of Canterbury is on the eve of its greatest expansion and responsibility. The new School of Art is already established on the new site at Riccarton, a tender will be let soon for the new engineering school to be built by 1961, surveys of needs in new science buildings have also begun. Dr. Llewellyn sees no reason why the science blocks, which may cost £ 1,750,000. should not be ready by 1963. He says the council has a programme for the whole university to be moved to the new site within 15 years. In 20 years student numbers are expected to be double the present * 2400. The vicechancellor’s address shows at once the demands the uniV^? lty mUSt meet and the additional responsibilities it has already begun to carry. The plans made for the next 15 years will suggest to Canterbury that more than nominal

developments are taking place in their own university. They will not forget what it achieved under its old name. It was as Canterbury University College that this institution won respect for its teaching all over the world. This reputation is the happiest of auguries for a greater future.