{{Short description|Former college of the University of Oxford}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} <!-- Infobox begins --> {{Infobox residential college | university = University of Oxford | name = Templeton College | photo = | scarf ={{scarf|{{cell|#0e2b58}}{{cell|#FF0}}{{cell|#0e2b58}}{{cell|#FF0}}{{cells|3|#0e2b58}}{{cell|#FF0}}{{cell|#0e2b58}}{{cell|#FF0}}{{cell|#0e2b58}}}} | full_name = | latin_name = | motto = | named_for = Sir John Templeton | previous_names = Oxford Centre for Management Studies (1965–1983) | established = 1965 | closed = 1 October 2008 (merged with Green College) | sister_college = | president = | undergraduates = | graduates = | location = Egrove Park | coordinates = {{coord |51.72889|-1.25192|type:edu_region:GB|display=title,inline}} | location_map = Oxfordshire | grace = | shield = }} '''Templeton College''' was one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford, England. It was an all-graduate college, concentrating on the recruitment of students in business and management studies. In 2008, the college merged with Green College, Oxford to form Green Templeton College, based on the existing Green College site.
==History== The college was founded in 1965 as the Oxford Centre for Management Studies. The college was based at Egrove Park in Kennington, south of Oxford. Its buildings were opened in 1969 and were listed in 1999.
It was renamed Templeton College in 1983 as a result of a donation from Sir John Templeton, in honour of his parents, Harvey Maxwell and Vella Handly Templeton. The intention was to raise professional standards in British management. The endowment was one of the largest endowments ever made to a British educational establishment. Initially a "society of entitlement" in the university, Templeton College began admitting graduate students in 1984 and became a full graduate college of the university by royal charter in 1995.
In November 2005, the college transferred its executive education business to the Saïd Business School.
On 26 February 2007, two bombs were found planted at Templeton College. An animal rights activist was convicted of conspiracy to commit arson in February 2009.<ref>{{cite news | title = Animal rights fire-bomber jailed | publisher = BBC Online | date = 2009-02-13 | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7885687.stm | accessdate = 2009-09-19}}</ref>
On 3 July 2007, it was announced that Templeton College would merge with Green College, Oxford with effect from 1 October 2008 to form Green Templeton College, Oxford, based on the existing Green College site.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2007/070703.html|title=Merger to create new Oxford graduate college|date=3 July 2007|publisher=University of Oxford|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002035017/http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2007/070703.html|archivedate=2 October 2013}}</ref> Templeton's former site at Egrove Park remains in use by the Saïd Business School as its Executive Education Centre.<ref>[http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/corporate/Pages/egroveparkconference.aspx Said Business School website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100929002158/http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/corporate/Pages/egroveparkconference.aspx |date=2010-09-29 }}</ref>
==See also== *Ahrends, Burton and Koralek architects * List of Principals of Green Templeton College, Oxford
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==External links== *[http://www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/about-gtc/history-and-architecture/history-of-templeton-college.html Green Templeton College website: History of Templeton College]
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Category:Former colleges and halls of the University of Oxford Templeton College Category:Educational institutions established in 1965 Category:Educational institutions disestablished in 2008 Category:1965 establishments in England