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| Motto | "Ideas and Friendship". |
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| Type | centre for advanced interdisciplinary scholarship at the University of British Columbia |
| Established | 1993 |
| Principal | Donald Fisher |
| Postgraduates | 84 graduate students, 16 postdoctoral scholars |
| Location | , , |
| Campus | urban overlooking the ocean and mountains |
| Colours | Gold and Green |
| Affiliations | Green College at the Radcliffe Observatory of Oxford University, Cambridge University, AUCC IAU, CIS, CWUAA |
| Website | www.greencollege.ubc.ca |
Green College is a centre for interdisciplinary scholarship and a community of scholars at the University of British Columbia founded by Cecil Howard Green and Ida Green.
The college consists of a residential community of nearly 100 graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, visiting scholars and professors, and non-resident affiliated faculty and academic programming. Green College is one of only three graduate residential colleges in Canada which are modelled on the Oxbridge system, the other two being St. John's College, University of British Columbia and Massey College, University of Toronto. Green College has formal ties with both institutions as well as with the University of Cambridge and Green Templeton College, Oxford, which similarly owes its inception to the generosity of Cecil H. Green.
The college is located at the North end of the UBC campus, near the Faculty of Law, Museum of Anthropology, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, and the Buchanan complex. Cecil Green Park House is an oceanfront mansion adjoining the college property. Dining together is an integral part of the Green College experience. The college is home to the Green College Dining Society which provides ten meals a week to residents and guests in Graham House's Great Hall.
In 1997, Green College was evaluated as "[surpassing] goals" by an independent review committee.[1] The college's "stimulating program" earned a Peter Larkin Graduate Program Award from UBC in 1998.[2]
- ^ Kelly, Sean (September 4, 1997). "Graduate college not only meets, but surpasses goals, review finds". UBC Reports. University of British Columbia Public Affairs Office. p. 9. Retrieved 2023-02-10. This issue of UBC Reports is also online in PDF form.
- ^ "Award winners improve students' lives". UBC Reports. University of British Columbia Public Affairs Office. October 29, 1998. pp. 1–2. Archived from the original on August 27, 2004. Retrieved 2006-12-23. This issue of UBC Reports is also online in PDF form.