Editing University of York (section)

===Establishment===
[[John Bowes Morrell]] was the driving force behind the university's establishment.<ref name="foundations" /> York accepted its first students the year of Morrell's death, 1963, opening with 216 undergraduates, 14 postgraduates, and 28 academic and administrative staff.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.york.ac.uk/about/history/1960s/|title=Our History: The 1960s|publisher=University of York|access-date=21 January 2015|archive-date=26 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926154415/https://www.york.ac.uk/about/history/1960s/|url-status=live}}</ref> The university started with six departments: Economics, Education, English, History, Mathematics, Politics.<ref name="historytimeline" /> At the time, the university consisted of three buildings, principally the historic [[King's Manor]] in the city centre and [[Heslington Hall]], which has Tudor foundations and is in the village of Heslington on the edge of York. A year later, work began on purpose-built structures on the Heslington Campus, which now forms the main part of the university.

[[Eric James, Baron James of Rusholme|Baron James of Rusholme]], the university's first Vice-Chancellor, said of the University of York that "it must be collegiate in character, that it must deliberately seek to limit the number of subjects and that much of the teaching must be done via [[tutorials]] and [[seminars]]".<ref name="CandVC">{{cite web|url=http://www.york.ac.uk/admin/presspr/40thanniversary/vcs.htm|title=Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors of the University|publisher=University of York|access-date=28 April 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080305032919/http://www.york.ac.uk/admin/presspr/40thanniversary/vcs.htm|archive-date=5 March 2008 }}</ref> Due to the influence of [[Graeme Moodie]], founding head of the Politics Department, students are involved in the governance of the university at all levels, and his model has since been widely adopted.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/aug/16/guardianobituaries.obituaries |title=Obituary: Graeme Moodie – Education |work=The Guardian |location=London |access-date=3 May 2009 |last=Afshar |first=Haleh |date=16 August 2007 |archive-date=12 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191212151707/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/aug/16/guardianobituaries.obituaries |url-status=live }}</ref>

York's first two Colleges, [[Derwent College, York|Derwent]] and [[Langwith College, York|Langwith]], were founded in 1965, as was the [[University of York Library]].<ref>{{cite web|title=University of York|url=https://www.york.ac.uk/|access-date=21 January 2022|website=york.ac.uk|archive-date=21 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121000249/https://www.york.ac.uk/|url-status=live}}</ref> These were the first residential colleges. They were followed by [[Alcuin College, York|Alcuin]] and [[Vanbrugh College, York|Vanbrugh]] in 1967 and [[Goodricke College, York|Goodricke]] in 1968. In 1972 this was followed by [[Wentworth College, York|Wentworth College]].<ref name="wentworth history" />

The university was noted for its inventive approach to teaching. It was known for its early adoption of [[joint honours degree]]s which were often very broad such as history and biology. It also took an innovative approach to [[social science]] introducing a five-year-long degree in the subject.<ref name="plateglassuniversities" />