History
1843 As the industrial revolution gathered pace and Sheffield was on the verge of becoming the steel, tool and cutlery making capital of the world, the Sheffield School of Design was founded. For over a century it enjoyed a distinguished history as one of Britain’s top schools of art and design.
1905 The City of Sheffield Training College on Collegiate Crescent admitted its first 90 students.
1967 The Owen Building is constructed. Built in a functional 1960s design, it has been modernised and renovated numerous times since construction.
1969 The Sheffield School of Design merged with the city’s College of Technology to form Sheffield Polytechnic.
1976 Sheffield Polytechnic absorbed the city’s two teacher training colleges, and was renamed Sheffield City Polytechnic.
1987 The institution becomes a founding member of the Northern Consortium.
1992 Sheffield City Polytechnic became Sheffield Hallam University (SHU), with the right to award its own degrees.
2004 SHU appointed its first clinical medical Honorary Professors.
2005 SHU was reorganised into four large faculties (see below). The new Faculty of Development and Society, with an emphasis on 'people, places and spaces', brought together education, geography, humanities, law, and social sciences. At the same time, with the intention of further developing research and teaching in the new Faculty of Health and Wellbeing, a new Clinical Academic Group was launched. The building that had been designed and constructed to house the National Centre for Popular Music became the university's students' union building (the HUBS). The former students' union building, the Nelson Mandela Building, was sold and has since been demolished.
2007 SHU took over the teaching of nursing and midwifery from the University of Sheffield. These activities are based at the Collegiate Crescent Campus.
2008 The Psalter Lane campus (formerly the Sheffield College of Art) was closed, and the activities transferred to the City Campus. The Psalter Lane site has been sold and is to be used for housing. A £26 million energy-efficient Furnival Building (renamed Cantor Building in 2011) opened in September. The building, which includes teaching spaces and an art gallery is said to be "the impressive new entry point to the campus".
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