Editing St Anne's College, Oxford (section)

===St Anne's College (1952 onwards)===
In 1952, the St Anne's Society acquired a royal charter as St Anne's College and in 1959 full college status along with the other women's colleges.<ref name="History Brochure">{{cite web |url=http://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/Publications/St._Annes_History_Brochure_David_Smith.pdf |title=St Anne's History Brochure |publisher=st-annes.ox.ac.uk |access-date=2 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190808183330/http://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/Publications/St._Annes_History_Brochure_David_Smith.pdf |archive-date=8 August 2019 |quote="Only in 1959 did the five women's colleges acquire full collegiate status so that their councils became governing bodies and they were, like the men's colleges, fully self-governing."}}</ref> The Principal at the time, Mary Ogilvie, pressed for a transition from many disparate dining rooms to a common building. This led to the construction of the dining hall completed in 1959 and visited by [[Elizabeth II|Queen Elizabeth II]] in 1960. Meanwhile student numbers grew to nearly 300, which called for more accommodation and led to the construction of the Wolfson and Rayne buildings in 1964 and 1968. In 1977, the decision was made to become coeducational, with the first male undergraduates [[Matriculation|matriculating]] in 1979.<ref name="History Brochure"/>

Since then, St Anne's has continued to use female words and pronouns, such as "alumnae" to refer to current and former students. The college explains this: "On 17 June 1979, in the nervous time when the first male Fellows had been elected, and the first male students admitted though they had not yet arrived, a note from the Dean to Governing Body asks hesitantly 'Would Governing Body wish "he" (or "he/she") to be substituted for "she" throughout the College Regulations?' Eventually the question was answered (or perhaps avoided) by a carefully worded statement that remains in the preamble to our Regulations: 'words importing the feminine gender shall include the masculine and vice versa, where the construction so permits and the Regulations do not otherwise expressly provide.'"<ref name="Alumnae">{{cite web |url=http://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/alumnae/our-alumnae |title=St Anne's College, Oxford > Alumnæ & friends> Our alumnæ |website=st-annes.ox.ac.uk |access-date=4 October 2018}}</ref>

In 2023, work began on the full reconstruction of the Bevington Road accommodation blocks, in order to make them more suitable for future generations of students.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-10-04 |title=Bevington Road Regeneration {{!}} St Anne's College, Oxford |url=https://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/alumnae/bevington-road/ |access-date=2023-10-23 |language=en-GB}}</ref>