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The University of Sydney

Latin: Universitas Sidneiensis
Motto: Sidere mens eadem mutato (Latin)
Literal: "The stars change, [but] the mind [remains] the same"
Non-literal: "Though the constellation may change the spirit remains the same"
Established: 1850
Type: Public
Endowment: AU$1.259 billion
(31 December 2006)[1][2]
Chancellor: Professor Marie Bashir, Lady Shehadie AC CVO[3]
Vice-Chancellor: Professor Gavin Brown
Staff: 3,018 (FTE academic, 2007)
Students: 45,182 (2007)
Undergraduates: 30,726 (2007)
Postgraduates: 14,456 (2007)
Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia
( 33°53′16″S, 151°11′14″E)
Campus: Urban, parks
Affiliations: Group of Eight, APRU, ASAIHL, WUN
Website: www.usyd.edu.au

The University of Sydney (colloquially Sydney Uni) is the oldest university in Australia. It was established in Sydney in 1850. It is a member of Australia's "Group of Eight" Australian universities that are highly ranked in terms of their research performance. In 2007, the University had 45,182 students and 3,018 (full-time equivalent) academic staff making it the second largest in Australia.[4] By financial endowment it is the wealthiest university in Australia. For other uses, see Latins and Latin (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Motto (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Latins and Latin (disambiguation). ... Literal translation refers to the result of translating text from one language to another; translating each word independently as opposed to translating the entire phrase. ... The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... For the game, see: 1850 (board game) 1850 (MDCCCL) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday [1] of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... A financial endowment is a transfer of money or property donated to an institution, with the stipulation that it be invested, and the principal remain intact. ... A Chancellor is the head of a university. ... Her Excellency Professor Marie Roslyn Bashir, AC, CVO (born 1930) is the current Governor of New South Wales and Chancellor of the University of Sydney. ... A Vice-Chancellor (commonly called the VC) of a university in the United Kingdom, other Commonwealth countries, and some universities in Hong Kong, is the de facto head of the university. ... Gavin Brown AO (27 February 1942) is a Scottish-born mathematician, and the current Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney. ... This article is about work. ... For other uses, see Student (disambiguation). ... In some educational systems, undergraduate education is post-secondary education up to the level of a Bachelors degree. ... Degree ceremony at Cambridge. ... This article is about the metropolitan area in Australia. ... NSW redirects here. ... Cities with at least a million inhabitants in 2006 An urban area is an area with an increased density of human-created structures in comparison to the areas surrounding it. ... This article needs additional references or sources to facilitate its verification. ... The Group of Eight (Go8) is a lobby group for eight Australian tertiary institutions which are the leading universities in Australia. ... The Association of Pacific Rim Universities (or APRU) is an organisation of leading universities from around the Pacific Rim. ... The Association of Southeast Asian Institutions of Higher Learning or ASAIHL is a non-governmental organization founded in 1956 to assist higher learning institutions in strengthening themselves through a mutual self help and to achieve international distinction in teaching, research and public service. ... The Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) is an invitation-only group of 16 research-led universities which have agreed to carry out research and research training on a collaborative basis. ... A website (alternatively, web site or Web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or more web servers, usually accessible via the Internet. ... Map of medieval European universities This is a list of the oldest extant universities in the world. ... This article is about the metropolitan area in Australia. ... The Group of Eight (Go8) is a lobby group for eight Australian tertiary institutions which are the leading universities in Australia. ... A financial endowment is a transfer of money or property donated to an institution, with the stipulation that it be invested, and the principal remain intact. ...


The University of Sydney has been ranked amongst the top 40 universities in the world by various sources. The UK’s Times Higher Education Supplement World University Rankings published in October 2006 ranked the University fifth best in the world for the Arts and Humanities, nineteenth for the social sciences and twentieth for biomedicine. [5] [6] The University as a whole was ranked 35th in the world in that same publication's league table, ranking third among Australian universities.[7] In the Newsweek global 100 for 2006, the University of Sydney (together with the Australian National University) was one of two Australian universities placed in the top 50 in the world.[8] The Times Higher Education Supplement, known as The Times Higher for short, is a newspaper based in London, United Kingdom, that reports specifically on issues related to education. ... For the community in Florida, see University, Florida. ... For other uses, see Humanities (disambiguation). ... The social sciences are groups of academic disciplines that study the human aspects of the world. ... See drugs, medication, and pharmacology for substances that treat patients. ... The Newsweek logo Newsweek is a weekly news magazine published in New York City and distributed throughout the United States and internationally. ... The Australian National University, or ANU, is a public university located in Canberra, Australia. ...


In the most recent THES worldwide rankings of universities released in November 2007, the University was ranked 31st overall (up four places from 2006), maintaining its position as the third highest ranked Australian university behind ANU (16th) and the University of Melbourne (27th).[9] The Times Higher Education Supplement, known as The Times Higher for short, is a newspaper based in London, United Kingdom, that reports specifically on issues related to education. ... The Australian National University, or ANU, is a public university located in Canberra, Australia. ... The University of Melbourne, is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. ...


Centred on the Oxbridge-inspired grounds[10] of the University's Main Campus on the south-western outskirts of Sydney's CBD, the University has a number of campuses as a result of mergers over the past 20 years. The University of Sydney is a member of the Group of Eight, Academic Consortium 21, the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) and the Worldwide Universities Network. Oxbridge is a name used to refer to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the two oldest in the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world. ... The Central Business District of Sydney, Australia. ... The Association of Pacific Rim Universities (or APRU) is an organisation of leading universities from around the Pacific Rim. ... The Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) is an invitation-only group of 16 research-led universities which have agreed to carry out research and research training on a collaborative basis. ...

Contents

History

The Main Quadrangle
The Main Quadrangle

During 1848, William Wentworth proposed a plan to expand the existing Sydney College into a university in the Legislative Council. Wentworth argued that a state university was imperative for the growth of a society aspiring towards self-government, and that it would provide the opportunity for 'the child of every class, to become great and useful in the destinies of his country'. It would take two attempts on Wentworth's behalf however, before the plan was finally adopted. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1024x768, 205 KB) Summary Main Quadrangle of the University of Sydney. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1024x768, 205 KB) Summary Main Quadrangle of the University of Sydney. ... William Wentworth For the Australian politician, see William Wentworth IV William Charles Wentworth (early 1790 – 20 March 1872), Australian explorer, journalist and politician, was one of the leading figures of early colonial New South Wales. ... Sydney Grammar School (colloquially known as Grammar)[4] is an independent, secular, selective day school for boys, located in Darlinghurst, Edgecliff and St Ives, all suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ... The Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of New South Wales in Australia. ...


The University was established via the passage of the University of Sydney Act which was signed on 1 October 1850. Two years later, the University was inaugurated on 11 October 1852 in the Big Schoolroom of what is now Sydney Grammar School. The first principal was John Woolley. On 27 February 1858 the University received its Royal Charter from Queen Victoria, giving degrees conferred by the University equal rank and recognition as those given by universities in the UK [11]. By 1859, the university had moved to its current site in the Sydney suburb of Camperdown. is the 274th day of the year (275th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the game, see: 1850 (board game) 1850 (MDCCCL) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday [1] of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... is the 284th day of the year (285th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1852 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Sydney Grammar School (colloquially known as Grammar)[4] is an independent, secular, selective day school for boys, located in Darlinghurst, Edgecliff and St Ives, all suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ... John Woolley (28 February 1816 – 11 January 1866), first principal of the University of Sydney. ... is the 58th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1858 (MDCCCLVIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... For the ship of the same name, see Royal Charter (ship). ... Queen Victoria redirects here. ... A view of rooftops in Camperdown Camperdown postcode 2050 is a suburb of Sydney, Australia. ...


In 1858, the passage of the Electoral Act provided for the university to become a constituency for the Legislative Assembly as soon as there were 100 graduates with higher degrees. This seat in Parliament was first filled in 1876, but was abolished in 1880 one year after its second Member, Edmund Barton, was elected to the Legislative Assembly. The Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of New South Wales in Australia. ... Sir Edmund Barton, GCMG, QC (18 January 1849 – 7 January 1920), Australian politician and judge, was the first Prime Minister of Australia and a founding justice of the High Court of Australia. ...


Most of the estate of John Henry Challis was bequeathed to the university, which received a sum of £200,000 in 1889. This was thanks in part due to William Montagu Manning (chancellor 1878–1895) who argued against the claims by British Tax Commissioners. The following year seven professorships were created; anatomy, zoology, engineering, history, law, logic & mental philosophy, and modern literature. The academic structure of the university was based partly on that of Cornell University in the US.[12] John Henry Challis (6 August 1809 – 28 February 1880) was an English-born Australian university benefactor. ... Sir William Montagu Manning KCMG (20 June 1811 – 27 February 1895) was an English-born Australian politician, judge and University of Sydney chancellor. ... Cornell redirects here. ...


Under the terms of the Higher Education (Amalgamation) Act 1989 (NSW) the following bodies were incorporated into the University in 1990: This article is about the year. ...

  • the Sydney Branch of the NSW State Conservatorium of Music
  • the Cumberland College of Health Sciences
  • the Sydney College of the Arts of the Institute of the Arts
  • the Sydney Institute of Education of the Sydney College of Advanced Education
  • the Institute of Nursing Studies of the Sydney College of Advanced Education
  • the Guild Centre of the Sydney College of Advanced Education.

The Orange Agricultural College (OAC) was originally transferred to the University of New England under the Act, but then transferred to the University of Sydney in 1994, as part of the reforms to the University of New England undertaken by the University of New England Act 1993 and the Southern Cross University Act 1993. In January 2005, the University of Sydney transferred the OAC to Charles Sturt University. The University of New England (UNE) was originally formed in 1938 as the New England University College, a College of the University of Sydney. ... CD Blake Auditorium, Bathurst campus, CSU Charles Sturt University (CSU) is an Australian multi-campus university in New South Wales. ...


The New England University College was founded as part of the University of Sydney in 1938, and separated to become the University of New England in 1954. Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The University of New England (UNE) was originally formed in 1938 as the New England University College, a College of the University of Sydney. ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar). ...


In 2001, University of Sydney Chancellor Dame Leonie Kramer was forced to resign by the University’s governing body.[13] In 2003, Nick Greiner, a former Premier of NSW, resigned from his position as Chairman of the University's Graduate School of Management because of academic protests against his simultaneous chairmanship of British American Tobacco (Australia). Subsequently, his wife, Kathryn Greiner, resigned in protest from the two positions she held at the University as Chairwoman of the Sydney Peace Foundation and a member of the executive council of the Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific.[14] In 2005, the Public Service Association of NSW and the Community and Public Sector Union were in dispute with the University over a proposal to privatise security at the main campus (and the Cumberland campus.)[15] Dame Leonie Judith Kramer (born 1 October 1924) is an Australian academic, educator and professor. ... Nicholas Frank Hugo Greiner AC (born 27 April 1947) was the parliamentary leader of the Liberal Party in New South Wales, Australia and also Premier from 1988 to 1992. ... British American Tobacco Plc (LSE: BATS, AMEX: BTI, KLSE: BAT) is the second largest listed tobacco company in the world. ... The Community and Public Sector Union (more commonly known as the CPSU) is a national trade union in Australia. ...


In February 2007, the University agreed to acquire a portion of the land granted to St John's College to develop the Sydney Institute of Health and Medical Research. As a Catholic institution, in handing over the land St John's placed limitations on the type of medical research that can be conducted on the premises seeking to preserve the essence of the College mission. This has caused concern among the some groups who argue this could interfere with scientific medical research. However this is rejected by the university administration because the building is not intended for this purpose and there are many other facilities in close proximity where such research can take place. Full name The College of St John the Evangelist Motto Nisi Dominus Frustra Unless the Lord is with us, our labor is vain Named after St John the Evangelist - author of the fourth Gospel Previous names The College of St John the Evangelist Established 1858 Sister College(s) - Rector Dr...


Organisation

The University comprises sixteen faculties:[16]

  • Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources
  • Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning
  • Faculty of Arts
  • Faculty of Dentistry
  • Faculty of Economics and Business
  • Faculty of Education and Social Work
  • Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies
  • Faculty of Fine Arts
  • Faculty of Health Sciences
  • Faculty of Law
  • Faculty of Medicine
  • Faculty of Music
  • Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery
  • Faculty of Pharmacy
  • Faculty of Science
  • Faculty of Veterinary Science

Sydney University Faculty of Dentistry Sydney University Faculty of Dentistry Is one of the graduate schools of Sydney University. ... The Sydney College of the Arts is based in the suburb of Rozelle in Sydney, Australia. ... Sydney Law School comprises the University of Sydneys Faculty of Law. ... The Sydney Conservatorium of Music (formerly the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music), informally known as ‘The Con’, is one of the oldest music schools in Australia. ...

Research

Latest figures show that the University of Sydney has been confirmed as Australia’s leading research university in terms of funding. Sydney researchers have been awarded more than $49 million by the Australian Research Council for 120 research projects commencing in 2007, the largest amount awarded to any university in Australia. Of that total, Sydney has received $40.5 million for 97 new Discovery Grants commencing in 2007, $5.4 million more than its nearest national competitor. The Australian Research Council (ARC) is the Australian Government’s main agency for allocating research funding to academics and researchers in Australian universities. ...


The University of Sydney secured more than $46 million in funding in the 2007 round of National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Project Grant, Capacity Building and Fellowship awards, the largest allocation to any university in the state. The James Jones foundation has announced the 2007 recipient of the bicentennial award in university research linked to applied agricultural economics. The award includes various grant and research opportunities that may be taken up by both staff members and senior students. Five of the University's affiliated medical research facilities secured $38 million in the Australian government’s 2006 budget, part of $163 million made available for a variety of development and expansion projects.


Campus

Main campus

Clock Tower on the eastern side of the main quadrangle
Clock Tower on the eastern side of the main quadrangle

The main campus of the University is spread across two inner-city suburbs of Sydney: Camperdown and Darlington. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (977x1559, 301 KB) [edit] Summary The clock tower of the Main Quadrangle at the w:University of Sydney. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (977x1559, 301 KB) [edit] Summary The clock tower of the Main Quadrangle at the w:University of Sydney. ...


Originally housed in what is now Sydney Grammar School, in 1855, the government granted the university land in Grose Farm, three kilometres from the city, which is now the main Camperdown campus. The architect Edmund Blacket designed the original Neogothic sandstone Quadrangle and Great Tower buildings, which were completed in 1862. The rapid expansion of the university in the mid-20th century resulted in the acquisition of land in Darlington across City Road. The Camperdown/Darlington campus houses the headquarters of the University, and the Faculties of Arts, Science, Education and Social Work, Pharmacy, Veterinary Science, Economics and Business, Architecture, and Engineering. It is also the home base of the large Faculty of Medicine, which has numerous affiliated teaching hospitals across the State. Sydney Grammar School (colloquially known as Grammar)[4] is an independent, secular, selective day school for boys, located in Darlinghurst, Edgecliff and St Ives, all suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ... A view of rooftops in Camperdown Camperdown postcode 2050 is a suburb of Sydney, Australia. ... Edmund Thomas Blacket (25 August 1817 – 9 February 1883) was an Australian architect, best known for his designs for the University of Sydney, St. ... Neo-gothic architecture is an American branch of the Gothic revival style that was imported from England in the 1830s. ... City Road, as viewed from the bridge spanning the Darlington and Camperdown campuses of the University of Sydney City Road is a large thoroughfare in Sydney that is adjacent to Broadway and Parramatta Road. ...


The main campus is also the focus of student life at campus, with the student-run University of Sydney Union (often known simply as the Union) in possession of three buildings on-site - Wentworth, Manning and Holme Buildings. These buildings house a large proportion of the university's catering outlets, and provide space for gaming rooms, bars and function centres. One of the largest activities organised by the Union is the Orientation Week (or 'O-week'), centering on stalls set up by clubs and societies on the Front Lawns. Orientation Week at the University of Sydney is organised by the Union. ...


The University is currently undertaking a large capital works program (entitled "Campus 2010 + Building for the Future"), with the aim of revitalising the campus and providing more office, teaching and student space. The program will see the amalgamation of the smaller science and technical libraries into a larger library, and the construction of a central administration and student services building along City Road. A new building for the School of Information Technologies opened in late 2006, and has been located on a site adjacent to the Seymour Centre. The busy Eastern Avenue thoroughfare has been transformed into a pedestrian plaza, and a new footbridge has been built over City Road. Meanwhile, a new home for the Sydney Law School is under construction, located alongside Fisher Library on the site of the old Edgeworth David and Stephen Roberts buildings. Sir Tannant William Edgeworth David (January 28, 1858 - August 28, 1934 was an Australian geologist and explorer. ...


From 2007, the University will also use Bay 17 in the new Carriageworks development in the former Eveleigh railway yards just to the south of Darlington as an examination room. Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... Eveleigh is a suburb of the city of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ... A typical back lane in Darlington Darlington is a small suburb in southern inner Sydney, Australia. ...


The campus is well-served by public transport, being a short walk from Redfern Railway Station, and served by buses on the neighbouring Parramatta Road and City Road.[17] Lawson Street entrance Gibbons Street entrance incomplete platforms at Redfern Station Redfern railway station is a major railway station in Redfern which is to the south of the Sydney city centre. ... Parramatta Road is the major historical east-west artery of metropolitan Sydney, Australia, connecting the City of Sydney with Parramatta. ... City Road, as viewed from the bridge spanning the Darlington and Camperdown campuses of the University of Sydney City Road is a large thoroughfare in Sydney that is adjacent to Broadway and Parramatta Road. ...


Satellite campuses

  • Mallett Street campus: The Mallett Street campus is home of the Faculty of Nursing. As of 2005, the Faculty no longer offers undergraduate Bachelor of Nursing programs. A new Master of Nursing program (M.N) has been introduced, with its first intake of students in 2006. Other hybrid programs such as the Bachelor of Arts/Master of Nursing, Bachelor of Science/Master of Nursing, Bachelor of Applied Science/Master of Nursing, Bachelor of Sports and Exercise Science/Master of Nursing have also been introduced.
  • Cumberland campus: Formerly an independent institution (the Cumberland College of Health Sciences), the Cumberland campus in the Sydney suburb of Lidcombe was incorporated into the University as part of the higher education reforms of the late 1980s. It is home to the Faculty of Health Sciences, which covers various allied health disciplines, including physiotherapy, speech pathology, radiation therapy, occupational therapy, as well as exercise science and health information management.
  • The Sydney Dental Hospital located in Surry Hills and the Westmead Centre for Oral Health which is attached to Westmead Hospital. See: Sydney Faculty of Dentistry.
  • Phillip Street Campus: The Sydney Law School has been located in Sydney's CBD for the last 150 years, but is set to move to the main campus in 2009. The Phillips Street Campus will be used as research facilities.
  • Orange Agricultural College: Located at Orange in rural NSW, the Orange Agricultural College joined in 1994. Orange campus was principally the domain of the former Faculty of Rural Management; however other undergraduate courses from the Faculties of Arts, Science, Nursing and Pharmacy were also taught at Orange. The Orange Campus and the Faculty of Rural Management were transferred to Charles Sturt University in 2005.
  • Camden campus: Located on Sydney's southwest rural fringe, the Camden campus houses research farms for agriculture and veterinary science.

Lidcombe is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... Sydney University Faculty of Dentistry Sydney University Faculty of Dentistry Is one of the graduate schools of Sydney University. ... Sydney Law School comprises the University of Sydneys Faculty of Law. ... The Sydney College of the Arts is based in the suburb of Rozelle in Sydney, Australia. ... Rozelle is a suburb in the Municipality of Leichhardt, in the inner-west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge located on Port Jackson Port Jackson is the natural harbour of Sydney, Australia, also known as Sydney Harbour and is the largest natural harbour in the world. ... The Sydney Conservatorium of Music (formerly the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music), informally known as ‘The Con’, is one of the oldest music schools in Australia. ... Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney The Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney, Australia, are the largest of three major botanical gardens open to the public in Sydney, along with the Mount Annan Botanic Garden and the Mount Tomah Botanic Garden. ... The Sydney Opera House is located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ... Facing the Music (film)(2001) is a Australian film directed by Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson about the fight to keep the Sydney University Music Department alive in the face of crippling budget cuts. ... CD Blake Auditorium, Bathurst campus, CSU Charles Sturt University (CSU) is an Australian multi-campus university in New South Wales. ... Camden in New South Wales, Australia, is a historic town and Sydney Suburb 65 km southwest of the Sydney CBD and near the city of Campbelltown. ... Narrabri is a town of approximately 8000 persons and a Local Government Area in north-central New South Wales. ... For other uses, see Queensland (disambiguation). ...

Facilities and services

University of Sydney Library

Fisher Library, the main building of the University of Sydney Library.

The University of Sydney Library consists of numerous individual libraries across its many campuses. Fisher Library was named after an early benefactor. The University library is the largest in the southern hemisphere, with a collection of more than 5.25 million items. It possesses many rare items such as one of the two extant copies of the Gospel of Barnabas, and a first edition of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Sir Isaac Newton. Download high resolution version (1024x768, 159 KB)Fisher Library. ... Download high resolution version (1024x768, 159 KB)Fisher Library. ... Fisher Library, University of Sydney. ... Fisher Library, University of Sydney. ... The Gospel of Barnabas is a work purporting to be a depiction of the life of Jesus by his disciple Barnabas. ... Newtons own copy of his Principia, with handwritten corrections for the second edition. ... Sir Isaac Newton FRS (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727) [ OS: 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727][1] was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, and alchemist. ...


Museums and galleries

  • Nicholson Museum of Antiquities contains the largest and most prestigious collection of antiquities in Australia. It is also the country's oldest university museum, and features ancient artefacts from Egypt, the Middle East, Greece, Rome, Cyprus and Mesopotamia, collected by the University over many years and added to by recent archaeological expeditions.
  • The Macleay Museum is named after Alexander Macleay, whose collection of insects begun in the late eighteenth century was the basis upon which the museum was founded. It has developed into an extraordinary collection of natural history specimens, ethnographic artifacts, scientific instruments and historic photographs.
  • The University Art Collection was founded in the 1860s and contains more than 2,500 pieces, constantly growing through donation, bequests, and acquisition. It is housed in several different places, including the Sir Hermann Black Gallery and the War Memorial Art Gallery.

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Residential colleges

The university has a number of residential college and halls of residence each with its own distinctive style and facilities. All offer tutorial support and a wide range of social and sporting activities in a supportive communal environment. Five colleges are affiliated with religious denominations and while this gives each of these colleges a special character, students of any denomination or religion are eligible for admission. Unlike some residential colleges in British or American universities, the colleges are not affiliated with any specific discipline of study.

There is also a university-affiliated housing cooperative, Stucco. Full name The College of St John the Evangelist Motto Nisi Dominus Frustra Unless the Lord is with us, our labor is vain Named after St John the Evangelist - author of the fourth Gospel Previous names The College of St John the Evangelist Established 1858 Sister College(s) - Rector Dr... St Andrews College is a Protestant co-residential college within the University of Sydney, in the suburb of Camperdown. ... St. ... Full name Sancta Sophia College Motto In sapienta ambulate Walk in wisdom Named after Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat, founder of the Society of the Sacred Heart Previous names - Established 1925 Sister College(s) - Principal Dr Elizabeth Hepburn IBVM Location University of Sydney, H2 8 Missenden Road, Camperdown NSW, 2050 Undergraduates... The Womens College is one of the residential colleges at the University of Sydney. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... ‹The template below has been proposed for deletion. ... A housing co-operative is a legal entity, usually a corporation, that owns real estate, one or more residential buildings. ... Stucco Housing Co-operative is the first and only student housing co-operative in Australia, although other types of housing cooperatives are relatively common. ...


Student organisations

  • Student Representatives: Politically and academically, undergraduate students are represented by the Students Representative Council (SRC) and postgraduate students by the Sydney University Postgraduate Representative Association (SUPRA) [2].
  • Sydney University Sport: Formerly known as the Sydney University Sports Union and Sydney University Women's Sports Association, Sydney University Sport is one of the largest tertiary sporting body. It currently manages and administers 42 sport and recreation clubs, organises sporting and recreation events, and offers student and non-student members a comprehensive range of sporting facilities.

The future of these organisations is under a shadow with the passage of legislation implementing voluntary student unionism in late 2005. Such legislation prohibits the compulsory collection of fees from students who enrolled for the first time in the second semester of 2006 and all students from the beginning of 2007. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Sydney University Postgraduate Representative Association (SUPRA) is the student union organization responsible for representing postgraduates at the University of Sydney, and is Australias oldest student association for postgraduates. ... Orientation Week at the University of Sydney is organised by the Union. ... Sydney University Sport emblem The Sydney University Sport (SUS) is the universitys sporting body. ... Voluntary student unionism (VSU) is a policy under which membership of – and payment of membership fees to – university student organisations is not compulsory. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Miscellaneous

Statistics

Gallery

References

Internet:

  1. ^ University of Sydney - 2006 Annual Report, p102
  2. ^ Universities compete with world's best, Retrieved on 2007-12-28
  3. ^ Faculty alumna elected University Chancellor, Retrieved on 2007-06-02.
  4. ^ Facts and Figures - About the University
  5. ^ Australia's First University - About the University, Retrieved on 2007-01-03.
  6. ^ Newshub: National University of Singapore's News Portal, NUS Accorded World's Top 20 Universities Ranking, Retrieved on 2007-01-03. See the tables for the University of Sydney's rankings.
  7. ^ News & Events - The University of Sydney, Sydney Moves Up World Rankings, Retrieved on 2007-01-03.
  8. ^ Newsweek International Edition, The Complete List: The Top 100 Global Universities, Retrieved on 2007-01-04
  9. ^ The Australian, Eight Aussie unis in world's top 100, Retrieved on 2007-11-12.
  10. ^ Howells, T. (2007) Universityof Sydney Architecture. Watermark Press. Boorowa, NSW. ISBN 0-94928-475-0
  11. ^ Royal Charter of the University of Sydney
  12. ^ The Carnegie Committee, Cornell Alumni News, II(10), 29 November 1899, p. 6
  13. ^ Australian Broadcasting Corporation - PM, Dame Leonie Kramer Resigns, Retrieved on 2007-01-06.
  14. ^ Sydney Morning Herald, Kathryn Follows Nick Out of Door in Protest, Retrieved on 2007-01-06.
  15. ^ Public Service Association of NSW, Sydney University Petition on Security Services, Retrieved on 2007-01-06.
  16. ^ About the University: Faculties
  17. ^ University of Sydney, Faculty of Education & Social Work, "About Sydney". Accessed 30 March 2007.

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  • Williams, Bruce. Liberal education and useful knowledge: a brief history of the University of Sydney, 1850–2000, Chancellor's Committee, University of Sydney, 2002. ISBN 1-86487-439-2

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