Student administration/Student registration, Trinity College, Glasgow

Trinity College, Glasgow formerly Glasgow College of the United Free Church of Scotland formerly Glasgow Free Church College

Student administration

Student registration

Librarian

Treasurer

Clerk of Senate

A student had to produce various certificates before he could be enrolled at the College. These certificates included a diploma or degree certificate or class tickets, a certificate from his local presbytery showing he had passed its examinations, a certificate of character from the minister of the congregation he attended and, up until 1901 an examination board certificate showing he had passed the College entrance examination. Before enrolment, he also had to matriculate. By resolution of the Senate in November 1857, the Librarian was charged with handling matriculations. The student's details were recorded in a register which served jointly as a matriculation record and a library register. The student also had to pay a prescribed matriculation fee, initially set at 10 shillings, to the Treasurer. Students had to matriculate each year of their course. Following matriculation, the Clerk of Senate examined the various certificates and drew up, presumably using the information in the matriculation albums, a roll of all the matriculated and enrolled students for the coming session. Students were grouped by year of study and the amounts of any bursaries they had been awarded were also recorded. This list was submitted to the Senate and recorded in the minutes between October and December.

Following the union of the College and the Faculty of Divinity at Glasgow University in 1935, all students of the College henceforth matriculated at the University.

Bibliography:

College Calendar of the Free Church of Scotland

College Calendar of the United Free Church of Scotland

College Calendar of the Church of Scotland

Senate minutes 1857-1907 ref: GB 0248 DC 84/1/1
The minutes include annual lists of all matriculated students between 1860 and 1901. From 1902 a statistical summary only is included.

Scroll or draft Senate minutes 1857-1935 ref: GB 0248 DC 84/1/2/1-3
These occasionally include annual statistical summaries of matriculated students.

Library/matriculation albums 1858-1935 ref: To be confirmed
 

Title of function/activity taken from Elizabeth Parker's Function Activity Model (report compiled for JISC). Function and activity description compiled according to GASHE's Standard for Creating Function and Activity Descriptions.

Student administration/Student registration, University of Glasgow