Brighton University of Sussex Arts campus 1975

Postcard

 

• Picture / Image:  The University of Sussex, Brighton - shows the Arts Building on the University Campus
• Publisher:  none given but probably Photo Precision No. PT3702
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  4½p Machin light blue definitive
• Postmark(s):  Frinton on Sea 7 Jan 1975 Remember to Use the Postcode
• Sent to: Surrenden Road, Brighton 
• Notes & Key words: 

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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The University of Sussex is an English campus university situated next to the East Sussex village of Falmer, within the city of Brighton and Hove.^[4] It was the earliest of the "plate glass" universities founded in the 1960s, receiving its Royal Charter in August 1961.^[5]

The university is ranked within the top 30 in the UK: The Guardian university rankings for 2010 placed Sussex 18th;^[6] the 2008 Good University Guide placed it 24th.^[7] According to the 2010 Guardian university rankings, Sussex has Britain's best chemistry department. Its professor, Geoff Cloke, was in 2007 elected a fellow of The Royal Society.^[8] In 2008 the University of Sussex was ranked 20th in the UK, within the top 50 in Europe and 130th in the World.^[9]

The University of Sussex initially began as an idea for the construction of a university to serve Brighton. In December 1911 there was a public meeting at the Royal Pavilion in order to discover ways in which to fund the construction of a university. However, the project was halted by the First World War and the money raised was instead used for books for the Municipal Technical College. However, the idea was revived in the 1950s, and in June 1958, the government approved the corporation's scheme for a university at Brighton, the first of a new generation of red brick universities which came to be known as plate glass universities.^[5] The University was established as a company in 1959, with a Royal Charter being granted on 16 August 1961.^[5]

As the first of the new universities, Sussex quickly came to be identified with postwar social change and developed a reputation for radicalism which it retains. In 1973, a crowd of 500 students forcibly prevented United States government adviser Samuel Huntington from giving a speech on campus due to his involvement in the Vietnam War.^[10]

In 2004 the University started to use a new logo in place of its traditional coat of arms, as part of a wider new 'visual identity'.