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Robert Menzies College (RMC) is an Anglican
residential college A residential college is a division of a university that places academic activity in a community setting of students and faculty, usually at a residence and with shared meals, the college having a degree of autonomy and a federated relationship wi ...
of
Macquarie University Macquarie University ( ) is a public research university based in Sydney, Australia, in the suburb of Macquarie Park. Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third university to be established in the metropolitan area of S ...
. Established in 1972, the college was named after former Prime Minister
Sir Robert Menzies ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as p ...
. Its Latin motto is ''Vera Cogitate'', and the college's stated mission is "Forming the person, transforming the world." For the first 40 years of its history, RMC was home to around 200 students in four interconnected buildings. With the addition of a new state of the art building in 2012 Robert Menzies College now accommodates a maximum of 312 residents. As of 2013, six permanent staff members live on site at RMC, including the Master, the Dean, and the Anglican Chaplain to Macquarie University. The current master of RMC is Peter Davis, a specialist in residential colleges and a former lecturer in theology. RMC is an Anglican college and it hosts a chapel on its grounds. The chapel is the home of Trinity Chapel Macquarie, an
evangelical Christian Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that affirms the centrality of being " born again", in which an individual exper ...
congregation. Members of RMC are not expected to be Christians—in fact most are not, and they are not required to attend religious services. Members do, however, agree to abide by certain community standards while on RMC premises, such as not consuming alcohol.


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