Innis College
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Innis College is one of the constituent Colleges of the University of Toronto. The second-smallest college with 1600 students, it sits in the historic campus's west end, beside the university's central research library. Originally designed to be a wing (now Wetmore Hall) onto New College, it was founded separately in 1964 as the second non-federated college to be formed under the federated administration and located in the historic Macdonald/Mowatt house on St. George Street (since relocated to renovated row-housing along Sussex Avenue).
Innis College is named in homage to famous U of T political economist Harold Innis. It existed as a small and peripheral college for much of its history. Its only residence was the dilapidated Vladimir House on Spadina Avenue. In 1994 the new Innis College residence, a modern apartment-style building, was constructed on St. George Street just north of Robarts Library and the college immediately became more prominent. Innis was the first college to host an open pub (1975) and the first college to sport an equity split between faculty and students on their governing council.
Overshadowed by its much larger or older cousins--University College, St. Michael's College, Victoria College, Trinity College, and New College--it has carved out a niche in Cinema Studies due to having its own medium-sized fully equipped cinema - "Innis Town Hall".
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