Regent's Now Magazine 2019 WEB

REGENT’S NOW STUDENTS
In Michaelmas Term, we welcomed fifty new postgraduate
students. For Freshers’ Week, we built upon the model that was
introduced last year with events such as gown shopping, a movie
night, and an introduction to sports and societies at the College.
While we experience extremely high turnover between years, this
new group has very rapidly adopted Regent’s ethos and has already
shown a desire to invest back into the College.
In 2019, the College and MCR have made tremendous progress in
responding to the rapid growth of the postgraduate community.
In particular, the College has expanded the number of rooms
for postgraduate accommodation by fifty percent and plans
to continue this expansion in the next few years. Increased
accommodation plays an amazing role in fostering community
and in easing the burden of moving overseas for many of our
members. Further, within the MCR, we have continued to iterate
on our governance structure to better accommodate our growth
in numbers and the rapid turnover of our students.
As I stated at the beginning, this has been a phenomenal year.
Serving within this amazing organisation at this historic College
has been a joy that I never anticipated. However, as I come to
the end of my tenure, I hope that my successor will have an even
better report to give next year. I already believe that Regent’s MCR
is the best MCR in Oxford, but I also trust that our best years are
still to come!
Andy Baxter is President of the Middle Common Room (2018-19); he
arrived at the College in 2018 to read for an MSc in Global Governance
and Diplomacy, and is now completing an MBA (2019).
“Of course, the constant academic rigour of Oxford can often
be overwhelming, so a supportive community is a necessity.”
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