Editing Wadham College, Oxford (section)

=== Modern day ===
The college now consists of some 70 Fellows, about 230 graduate students, and about 450 undergraduates. The current Warden is [[Robert Hannigan]]. Hannigan succeeded [[Ken Macdonald|Lord Macdonald of River Glaven QC]] as Warden upon Macdonald's retirement in 2021.<ref>{{cite press release |url=https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/news/2021/may/robert-hannigan-nominated-as-next-warden|title=Robert Hannigan nominated as next Warden|publisher=Wadham College, Oxford|date=17 May 2021|access-date=1 October 2021}}</ref>

==== Promotion of equality, diversity and rights ====
In 1974, after more than three and a half centuries as a men-only institution, Wadham was among the first group of five all-male colleges at Oxford to admit women as full members, the others being [[Brasenose]], [[Jesus College, Oxford|Jesus College]], [[Hertford College, Oxford|Hertford]] and [[St Catherine's College, Oxford|St Catherine's]].<ref name="Women_at_Oxford">{{cite web |title=Women at Oxford |url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/about/oxford-people/women-at-oxford |access-date=12 June 2016 |publisher=[[University of Oxford]]}}</ref>

Wadham College has a reputation as a supporter of gay rights partly because it plays host to "Queerfest", a celebration of the LGBTQ cause.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Wadham|first1=College News|title=Queerfest 2016|url=https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/news/2016/november/queerfest-2016|website=www.wadham.ox.ac.uk|access-date=19 August 2017}}</ref> In 2011, Wadham became the first Oxbridge college to fly the [[Rainbow flag (LGBT movement)|Rainbow Flag]] in support of equality, as part of its annual Queer Week.<ref>[http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2011/11/23/oxford-college-flies-first-ever-rainbow-flag-above-university/ Oxford college flies university's "first-ever rainbow flag"] (November 2011)</ref> The [[Rainbow flag (LGBT)|rainbow flag]] also flies over Wadham each year during February, to mark [[LGBT history month]].{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

A Wadham student tradition is that student social events are always concluded with the playing of [[the Specials]]' ''[[Free Nelson Mandela]]''. The motion to play the song to conclude every student event until [[Nelson Mandela]] was freed from prison was passed by the Wadham Student Union in 1987, when Wadham alumnus Simon Milner (History, 1985), now Policy Director at Facebook, was SU President.<ref name="mandela">[http://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/news/2013/december/students-pay-tribute-to-nelson-mandela "Wadham students pay tribute to Nelson Mandela"]. wadham.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved on 23 December 2013.</ref> Following Mandela's liberation, the Student Union voted to continue the tradition as a mark of affection. President Mandela visited Wadham College and dined there on 11 July 1997.<ref>[http://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/news/2013/december/students-pay-tribute-to-nelson-mandela Students pay tribute to Nelson Mandela]. Wadham.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved on 12 April 2014.</ref> In 2017, this tradition was challenged by a South African student, who is a member of the [[ANC]] and active in equality campaigning in South Africa, as no longer appropriate given the complex legacy of Mandela in post-Apartheid South Africa. He also highlighted that there is much more to South Africa than just the history of Apartheid, and that constant reference to it rather than South Africa's current issues is outdated and no longer the progressive act it was intended to be. A vote to remove the constitutional requirement to play the song was narrowly defeated in a Wadham SU meeting.

In 2013 the warden, [[Ken Macdonald|Lord Macdonald of River Glaven QC]], created the Wadham Human Rights Forum, a new public forum for the discussion of human rights issues that welcomes top level speakers to Wadham College. Lord Macdonald was also frequently in the media speaking on legal issues and, particularly, on issues relating to rights and security.<ref>[http://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/news/2013/june/questioning-human-rights "Human Rights Forum at Wadham College"]. wadham.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved on 23 December 2013.</ref>