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Community Connections University of Wollongong Special Supplement June 2011 Community Connections University of Wollongong Special Supplement June 2011 SHARE Student & Staff THOUGHTS YOUR UOW CHLOE HIGGINS: My happiest UOW memory is leaving my fi rst lecture and STORIES realising I am exactly where I want to be. KRISTIE LYNCH: My happiest UOW memory is sitting under the big tree near 60th anniversary time the duck pond sitting there eating, feeding the ducks and birds who were nearby, being surrounded by fellow University capsule captures history students. I felt quite content and had a sense of belonging. TIM BROWN: The Lecturer I remember The University of Wollongong (UOW) is building from UOW was Margaret Bond. She made an interactive digital time capsule to mark its 60th me enthusiastic about contract law, a very Anniversary. Throughout the year stories, videos rare quality! and images which paint a picture of campus life in 2011 will be collected and published on the 60th Anniversary website for future UOW generations to NICK MORRISON: The one piece of view. advice I would give a UOW fi rst year is UOW this year is celebrating the 60th anniversary to get to know the kids on campus. Your of the establishment in Wollongong in 1951 of a social life will quadruple overnight and you small divisional college outpost of what was then will start to feel at home at uni. called the NSW University of Technology (later the University of NSW). The college moved from Coniston to its current site in 1962, and became a JESSICA SHILLINGTON: The person I fully autonomous university in 1975. was happy to meet at UOW was Aeelee The theme of the 60th Anniversary is Share your Jun because I am not a fi nance student Story and aims to recognise the role staff, students,, and I passed. She had phenomenal ways alumni and the wider community have played in of making you learn. making UOW the dynamic, successful internationalal university it is today. BUNMI OGUNBONA: It is a beautiful Vice Chancellor Professor Gerard Sutton said campus, the class sizes are smaller which the 60th anniversary was a milestone in UOW’s means its easier to ask questions and evolution, and projects like the time capsule were a Above: Journalism student Ben Neutze interviews Nursing student Hayley Uren for the ABC Open Online discuss with others, and because its close fi tting way to mark it. project. Below: Journalism student Andrew Riddle interviews Nursing student Lorraine Kuskey for the to home. ABC project. “It provides an opportunity to celebrate and profi le the University’s past and present successes and The University is also looking for video contributions producer Sean O’Brien to tell the stories of UOW to say thank you to everyone in the community for DIMITY SCARDANAS: The lecturer I throughout the year, and current Journalism community members in audio slide shows now their contribution to these achievements,” Professor remember from UOW was Lucas Ihlein students who operate the campus news service published on the ABC website. Sutton said. because he tells me to write my essays in UOWTV are working to uncover student, staff and “It was a chance to look deeper into the uni and see Contributions to UOW’s 60th Anniversary digital alumni stories with a difference. iambic pentameter. what kind of stories are out there and get to know the time capsule are being collected in several “We want to approach as many people as possible uni a bit better,” said participating Journalism and ways, including postcards, fi lm clips and stories and hear what they have to say about their UOW Politics student Emily Duncan. contributed through the internet and facebook. 60th BOYA WANG: I had not actually been to experience and hopefully by the end of the year Anniversary post cards and post boxes are popping Much has changed for UOW since 1951, but Australia before I came here. I have to the interviews will show the diverse and interesting up around the campus for people to answer a particularly since it gained full autonomy in 1975. say, it is a fantastic place where I have people which make up UOW in 2011”, said 60th question or share their UOW experiences. It has developed into one of Australia’s most never been. People here are very nice. Anniversary Digital Communications Intern Gabby successful tertiary education institutions, being I am an International student and I am However the time capsule is not restricted to Brown. named Australia’s University of the Year twice. UOW very glad that I have had this experience those who study or work on campus. Community “Some people are shy, but others are really keen to is in the top two percent of universities in the world in Wollongong. I love this beautiful and members are encouraged to visit the 60th be part of something which will go down in UOW by its performance in both the 2010 Shanghai Jiao Anniversary website or join the UOW alumni amazing Wollongong! history,” she said. Tong Academic Ranking of World universities and facebook page and contribute a story or image The Times Higher Education – QS World University which they feel sums up what UOW means to them. Students have also worked with ABC Open Illawarra Rankings 2010. QI DAI: I am doing a Bachelor of It established the University of Wollongong in Dubai Commerce, majoring in Accounting. As in 1993 and has fi ve NSW regional campuses and an International student here, everything education centres from Loftus in the north to Bega is fresh for me, there’s plenty of challenge in the south, and inland to Moss Vale This year the and temptation! The people here are really University also established Sydney Business School nice! I love them, and this place. based in Circular Quay. Students have been asked how they think the KIM HARLOW: My happiest UOW University will change over the next 60 years for the memory is not only the things I’ve learnt digital time capsule. academically, but all the great live music Science and graphic design student and Campus they have at the Unibar. UOW has also east resident, Caitlin Platt, hopes that progress given me the best sushi in Australia! leaves some things unchanged. “I hope in the next 60 years the university is the same, with parks and greenery and nature as that is what I love about it”, she said. UOW Community Connections UOW passes State Parliament UOW Vice 1972 - In December the Chancellor: University of Wollongong Michael Birt Act passed through State Parliament. 1973 - In June Professor Michael Birt was appointed Vice - Chancellor-designate and commenced duty in November 1973. He Arts and Commerce had been the Foundation Professor of Biochemistry 1964 - The fi rst Arts and Commerce at the Australian National students enrolled at WUC. There were University. 68 in Arts and 17 in Commerce, but The Wollongong numbers quickly rose and they remain Division the biggest Faculties. 1951 - The University of The University of Wollongong began as the Wollongong is born Wollongong Division of the UOW’s 2nd VC: 1975 - The University of Ken McKinnon New South Wales University Wollongong (UOW) began of Technology (which became UNSW in 1958). It was part of a life as a fully independent 1981 - In April State Labor Government plan to increase the supply of engineers, institution. One of Australia’s Professor Ken metallurgists and chemists by establishing Divisions in the steel most eminent jurists, Justice McKinnon became and mining towns of Wollongong, Newcastle and Broken Hill. Robert Hope, was installed the University’s second as the Foundation Chancellor Vice-Chancellor, in a ceremony held in 1976. with Professor Birt departing. First building contribution A campaign for autonomy 1959 - Local industries Lysaghts, BHP, Australian 1966 - A campaign for Illawarra Technology Iron and Steel, the Electrolytic Refi ning & Corporation Smelting Co. and Metal Manufactures donated autonomy from UNSW 138,000 pounds to build university buildings on gained momentum when 1981 - The University’s corporate the site of an old a busload of students arm, now known as Illawarra dairy farm at what went to Parliament House Technology Corporation, was also was then Northfi elds to protest a decision by established as Uniadvice in 1981 Lane, later in 1962 to UNSW not to build an as a division within the Friends of become Northfi elds Arts/ Commerce/ Science the University of Wollongong Ltd. Avenue, North building at WUC. It now operates in more than 20 Wollongong. countries. UOW merges with Wollongong Teachers College 1982 - Amalgamation of UOW and the Opening of Wollongong Wollongong Teachers University College College (which had been renamed the 1962 - The Wollongong Division of Wollongong Institute of UNSW became the Wollongong Education in 1973). University College (WUC) at the Announcement Northfi elds Avenue site. The new of University College had 308 students, all independence male, studying Engineering, Metallurgy 1970 - In April the or Science degrees. Appeal for a University NSW Government College in Wollongong UOW establishes announced that Creative Arts 1960 - A Wollongong Lord Mayoral WUC would Appeal raised 50,000 pounds for the become the 1983 - This year saw the foundation of a University College in independent establishment of the School of Wollongong, which was presented University of Creative Arts and a number of new to the UNSW Vice-Chancellor Philip Wollongong in courses, including a Bachelor of Baxter. 1975. Environmental Science. 1951 1961 1971 19 UOW Community Connections UOW Australia’s University of the Year 2000 - UOW was named Australia’s University of the Year for 1999-2000, and again for 2000-2001 for its First International students outstanding research and development partnerships.
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