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Type | Residential college |
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Established | 1992 |
Principal | Karen K. Inkelas |
Students | 210 |
Location | , , 38°1′48.2″N 78°31′10.6″W / 38.030056°N 78.519611°W |
Campus | 2 residence halls, 3 staff apartments, and 1 principal's residence |
Leadership | Hereford Student Senate |
Colors | Forest Green |
Affiliations | University of Virginia |
Website | [1] |
Hereford College is a self-governed residential college at the University of Virginia.
Originally consisting of five dorms within one complex, the residential college has since been reduced to two dorms: Norris House and Whyburn House. Thus, only about 200 students reside in Hereford Residential College.
Named after physicist Frank Hereford, who was president of the university between 1974 and 1985,[1] the college opened in 1992 as New College, UVA's second residential college. It consists of five strikingly thin dorm buildings, Vaughan House, and its own dining hall. Hereford was designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, which also designed the American Folk Art Museum in New York, the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, and the Student Art Building of Johns Hopkins University.[2]