Editing St Hilda's College, Oxford (section)

==History==
St Hilda's was founded by [[Dorothea Beale]] (who was also a headmistress at [[Cheltenham Ladies' College]]) in 1893, as '''St Hilda's Hall''' and recognised by the [[Association for the Education of Women]] as a women's hall in 1896.<ref name=VCH>{{cite web |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol3/pp348-350 |title=St. Hilda's College |website=British History Online |access-date=20 August 2020}}</ref> It was founded  as a women's college, a status it retained until 2008. Whilst other Oxford colleges gradually became co-educational, no serious debate at St Hilda's occurred until 1997, according to a former vice-principal, and then the debate solely applied to the issue of staff appointments.<ref>Hilda Brown [http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=175202&sectioncode=26 "Sex and the Hildabeast"], ''Times Higher Education [Supplement]'', 7 March 2003</ref> After a vote on 7 June 2006 by the Governing Body,<ref name="BBC"/> men and women can be admitted as [[Oxford fellow|fellows]] and students. This vote was pushed through with a narrow margin and followed previous unsuccessful votes. This led to protests from students because of the "high-handed" manner in which they were held.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1448435/St-Hildas-college-votes-to-remain-women-only.html|title=St Hilda's college votes to remain women-only|author=Peter Foster|date=4 December 2003|work=Telegraph.co.uk}}</ref>

In October 2007 a supplemental charter was granted and in 2008 male students were admitted to St Hilda's for the first time. The college now has almost equal numbers of men and women at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. In August 2018, the interim Norrington Table showed that 98 per cent of St Hilda's finalist undergraduates obtained at least a 2.i in their degree.<ref name="2017/18 Interim Norrington Table">{{cite web|url=https://www.ox.ac.uk/about/facts-and-figures/undergraduate-degree-classifications?wssl=1|title=2017/18 Interim Norrington Table|publisher=ox.ac.uk|access-date=22 February 2019|quote = St Hilda's 1st 37 2.1 69 2.2 2 3rd 0 Other 0 Total 108}}</ref>

===Women's rowing===
{{Main|St Hilda's College Boat Club}}
St Hilda's was the first 
women's college in Oxford and Cambridge to create a women's VIII in 1911. It was St Hilda's student H.G. Wanklyn who formed [[OUWBC]] and coxed in the inaugural [[Women's Boat Race 1927|Women's Boat Race of 1927]], with five Hilda's rowers.
In 1969, the St Hilda's Eight made Oxford history when they became the first ever female crew to row in the [[Summer Eights]]. They placed 12th.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/a/shcbc.org.uk/home/history-of-shcbc/1969---st-hildas-make-rowing-history |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140525214528/https://sites.google.com/a/shcbc.org.uk/home/history-of-shcbc/1969---st-hildas-make-rowing-history |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-05-25 |title=1969 - St Hilda's Make Rowing History - St. Hilda's College Boat Club |access-date=2014-05-25}}</ref>

===Documentary===
St Hilda's students were the subject of the [[Channel 4]] documentary series ''[[College Girls]]'', broadcast in 2002.<ref>Anthea Milnes [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/sep/05/gender.uk1 "No men please, we're studying"] ''The Guardian'', 5 September 2002</ref>