St Peter's College 2029

The major anniversary in prospect prompts us to reflect on our key goals to take us into our second century.

St Peter’s College's core mission is: to offer a high-quality education to its students; to promote and support scholarship and the quest for academic excellence across a range of subject areas; and to build an inclusive community that enables us to achieve our academic aims.

As we look towards our centenary, we will be shaping our College plans to ensure that:

• we continue to find, attract and admit students of greatest potential from all backgrounds, specifically including those from underrepresented groups;
• we protect and support a teaching and learning environment for undergraduates that is attentive, challenging, and stretching;
• we sustain and strengthen a College home for taught postgraduate students and for doctoral researchers that is attentive and supportive;
• we consolidate and build on a positive, welcoming, supportive, vibrant college culture based on shared principles of equality, diversity, inclusion and respect and we offer a wider college experience that can help prepare our students for life, work and positive citizenship in a fast-changing world;
• we support and celebrate high quality research across subject areas from St Peter’s academics at all stages of their career – from doctoral researchers to senior professors;
• our former students, from all round the world, continue to feel part of the ongoing life and work of the College, warmly welcomed at college events and supportive of our mission with current students;
• we care well for our beautiful estate, stewarding it carefully and improving it sensitively for the benefit of future generations, and managing our material resources in necessarily sustainable ways. As part of this project, we will expand our accommodation portfolio to cater for the pressing housing needs of our current and future students;
• we care appropriately for our academic and staff colleagues as a responsible employer, aware of the very significant resource that our people represent;
• we contribute positively to our wider University and civic environment, being a responsible neighbour and positive collaborator on good University and local initiatives;
• we build and organise our finances to ensure we are robustly future-proofed, well-placed to fulfil our own core objectives as a place of both academic excellence and warm community.

Professor Judith Buchanan
Master of the College