Annual Report 2012
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AnnuAl RepoRt 2 012 140 one hundred and forty Trinity College Annual Report 2012 2013 © Trinity College, Royal Parade, Parkville, VIC 3052 Editors: Brenda Holt and Peter Campbell Assistants: Penny Appleby, Kate Stewart, Nicole Crook Design: SC Design, Brunswick Photographs: Mark Chew, John Thomopoulos Cover: Trinity College circa 1906 Contents Overview 2 Warden’s Report 3 Strategic Plan 7 Residential College 9 Theological School 10 Trinity College Foundation Studies 11 Trinity Institute 12 Advancement 13 Art and Archives 14 Buildings and Grounds 15 Chaplaincy 16 Communications 17 Conferences and Events 17 Human Resources 17 Information Technology Services 18 Library 19 Appendix 21 Staff List 21 Staff Achievements 26 College Council 29 Board 30 Committees 30 Fellows 31 Honours 32 Bereavements 32 Senior Common Room 32 Visiting Scholars 32 Choir of Trinity College 33 Residential College 33 Cripps Middle Common Room 35 Resident Student Coordinators 35 Bursary Coordinators 35 Trinity College Associated Clubs (TCAC) 35 Awards 37 Scholarships 38 Theological School 40 Foundation Studies Students 40 Awards 45 Trinity Institute 46 Art Archives and Library 47 Conferences and Events 47 2012 Annual Report 1 oveRview Founded in 1872 as the first college of the University of Melbourne, Trinity College is a unique tertiary institution that provides a diverse range of academic programs to talented students from across Australia and around the world. These programs include: • the Trinity Institute, which offers Trinity student numbers in all parts of the • the Residential College for inspirational leadership programs College in 2012 were: undergraduate and postgraduate for high school students, innovative students of the University of Melbourne professional development, and Residential College and of the Trinity College Theological thought-provoking open learning Resident students 323 opportunities for all. School, both resident and non-resident Non-resident students 26 Trinity College actively contributes to • Trinity College Theological School 349 (TCTS), a centre for Anglican theology the life of the wider University, and its Theological School and ministry that educates people, main campus is located adjacent to lay and ordained, to work for the the University grounds. Ministry Formation 43 transformation of church and society An Anglican institution, Trinity welcomes Online 192 • Trinity College Foundation Studies people of all faiths and none. The College Certificate of Theology 279 celebrates, and is enriched by, the (TCFS), which offers a range of one-year 514 courses that prepare able overseas diversity of backgrounds of its staff International Programs students for undergraduate entry to and students. the University of Melbourne and other October Fast Track 2011 42 leading Australian universities February Main 320 July Fast Track 91 June and July Main 121 August and September Extended 90 October Fast Track 2012 71 735 Trinity Institute Young Leaders Winter School 114 Juilliard Winter Jazz School 40 Young Leaders Summer School 108 262 STUDENT COHORT DURING 2012 1,860 2 2012 Annual Report Warden’s RepoRt Last year Campbell Bairstow and I shared leadership of Trinity, Campbell acting as Warden in the first half of the year when I took a sabbatical at Yale University. I am happy to report that the College flourished in my absence! As this report indicates, our various programs have continued to serve their students well, and the College has continued to achieve important strategic goals, including improvements to our facilities and in the breadth and depth of our programs. While at Yale I was not completely apart Foundation Studies at Trinity before a other areas, but we see these as from College life, however; living in the Melbourne degree, and also for Australian complementary to, rather than substitutes resident student community at Yale Divinity undergraduates. There are increasing for, other forms of learning and School, I was also welcomed to Fellows’ numbers of Australian undergraduates at engagement. events at Timothy Dwight College, one of Yale’s New Haven campus, and at Harvard, Trinity needs to keep and develop that global the 12 residential colleges at Yale, founded as well as at Oxford and Cambridge. Quite perspective. We have of course had forms there in the 1920s – relatively recently, given a few students at schools which have of international engagement for many that Yale itself dates to 1701. While Trinity’s traditionally sent students on to this years, and most recently our Foundation members and friends need little convincing College are now seeing their choices in Studies and Young Leaders programs have of the value of residential life as part of a much wider terms than the local campus been particularly important for welcoming university experience, it was encouraging or Australian competitors. international students. We are thus well to see the centrality of the colleges at Yale It is especially interesting that at a time placed to welcome students from anywhere, and to be reminded of resonances between when some of these global educational and to encourage them to pursue their own life here and there. Yale’s new partnership leaders, including our own University of goals in all parts of the world. Australian with the National University of Singapore Melbourne, are putting significant course students are certainly seeing their options to create a liberal arts college in a regional content online for free, the demand for the as global; we want them and others, from neighbour puts those resonances in a new most traditional forms of community life at Asia, but also from Europe, the Americas and challenging perspective. university is growing, rather than declining. and Africa, to know that one of the most Yale-NUS is potentially a competitor with We continue to develop our long-standing outstanding sets of opportunities anywhere this College and the University of Melbourne, online courses in Theology and to expand can be found right here at Trinity. both for students currently coming to our educational technology offerings in 2012 Annual Report 3 COUNCIL operations, risk management, and capital FELLOWS investments. The Board’s comprehensive The College Council consists of Fellowship is the highest honour that is annual self-evaluation forms a basis of representatives of all major sectors of in the College’s power to bestow, and its measuring its effectiveness across a range the Trinity College community, including award is thus reserved for conspicuous of key areas. students, staff, alumni, donors, the church achievement in public life and in contribution and the University. As the peak governance The Board held eight meetings during the to the College. At its May meeting, the body of the College, the Council’s role is to year. Some of the key areas addressed Council raised Mr Robert Cripps AM, and ensure observance of the Trinity Constitution during its monthly meetings included Mr James S Guest AM OBE VRD, from the and to provide advice to the Board, the international strategy, the Strategic Plan, status of Fellow to that of Senior Fellow, and Warden and officers of the College. The the annual risk review, operating and capital elected as new honorary Fellows Dr Roger Council met in May, when it appointed budgets, fundraising, future arrangements Hamline Stafford Riordan AM, Professor the Rt Revd John Parkes AM KStJ, to the with the University of Melbourne related to Marcia Lynne Langton AM FASSA, and Mr Board, elected new honorary Fellows of the Foundation Studies, and the Student and Clive Smith. These three were installed as College, and discussed the Annual Report Staff Codes of Conduct. The Board also Fellows during Evensong on 7 October. In of the College for 2011. At its November approved a range of major infrastructure November, the Council elevated Sir Brian meeting, Council elected further Fellows, projects including the landscaping projects Inglis AC, Mr Brian Loton AC, and the Hon. and participated in an energetic discussion, for the Sharwood Court and Wynne Cottage/ Clive Tadgell AO QC, to the status of Senior led by the Warden, on strategic issues facing Kitchen North, the Jeopardy stage 2 Fellow, and elected as Fellows Professor the College over the coming five years. renovation, and a new telephony contract. (Charles) Ian Edward Donaldson FAHA Members of the Senior Management FBA FRSE, and Dr (Norman) Bruce Munro BOARD Team of the College were frequent guests FRACS FRANZCO. We congratulate all Trinity seeks to provide a world-class at Board meetings to discuss their budgets, those so elected on their achievements. collegiate education to our students. The their operational performance, their The Warden hosted a lunch for all Fellows College is fortunate to have an active and short-term and longer-term goals, and of the College in the Junior Common energetic Board that continues to focus areas where the Board could provide Room on 12 November. assistance and guidance. on meeting this goal. The Board works It was with great sadness that the College on strategic matters related to the future The Board was pleased to reappoint Ms acknowledges the contribution of two long- positioning of the College and on continually Oshana De Silva and Mr Stuart Gooley during standing Fellows who died during the year. lifting the quality of governance in the 2012, each for an additional two-year term. Professor AGL Shaw AO, a former resident College. To this end, all meetings include Mr Matthew Hargreaves followed Mr Sean student and Dean of the College, had been one or two major topics to allow in-depth Hewetson as Senior Student. The Board elected Fellow in 1980, and had in 2011 been discussion and debate of key topics. A farewelled Dr Graeme Blackman at the elevated to Senior Fellow. Dame Elisabeth number of teaching and administrative staff, conclusion of his term of eight years on the Murdoch, like Professor Shaw, was a from each of the educational divisions and Board.