Coventry University
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{{Infobox_University |name = Coventry University |image = Image:CovLogo.gif |motto = |established = 1970 (became university 1992) |type = Post 1992 |staff= |chancellor = Prof Madeleine Atkins |vice_chancellor = Professor David Gillingham |city= Coventry |country= United Kingdom |campus= |students= 17,000 |affiliations= |website= www.coventry.ac.uk }} Coventry University is a post-1992 university in Coventry, England. Under the terms of the Further and Higher Education Act of 1992, the institution's name was changed from Coventry Polytechnic to Coventry University. However, its roots can be traced as far back as 1843 to the Coventry College of Design. Much has changed since then and the University has made great strides in its development as an institution, particularly over the last ten years.
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History
- 1843 Coventry College of Design
- 1970 Merger of Coventry College of Art, Lanchester College of Technology & Rugby College of Engineering Technology into Lanchester Polytechnic
- 1987 Coventry Polytechnic
- 1992 Coventry University
Identity
The University's logo shows a phoenix, a mythical bird with splendid plumage, reputed to live in the Arabian Desert. Fabled to be the only one of its kind, it lived for five or six centuries, after which it burned itself to death on a funeral pyre of aromatic twigs ignited by the sun and fanned by its own wings. It rose from the ashes with renewed youth to live through another cycle.
Such a symbol is a fitting reminder of the way in which the City of Coventry rebuilt itself after suffering devastation during the Second World War. It is a symbol with which Coventry University is proud to be associated and to have adopted as its own.
Radio station
Source Radio is the radio station of this University. This hot mix station has been running several years, previously under the guise of Phoenix Radio, set-up by now Virgin Radio jock Kelly-Anne Smith. The station was rebranded Source FM in 2001, ahead of a full relaunch in Janurary 2006 as Source Radio.
Students' Union
Coventry University Students' Union has over 60 Sports Clubs and Societies.