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| Motto: | A New Way to Think |
| Established | 1994 |
| Type: | Public |
| Chancellor: | The Hon. Justice John Dowd AO |
| Vice-Chancellor: | Professor Paul Clark |
| Undergraduates: | 14,359 |
| Postgraduates: | 3,733 |
| Location | Lismore, Coffs Harbour, Tweed Heads, NSW, Australia |
| Campus: | Urban |
| Website: | http://www.scu.edu.au/ |
Southern Cross University (SCU) is a university based on the Mid North and North coast of New South Wales, Australia. It is a regional University with more than 14,000 students. The University's primary campus is in Lismore, with other campuses located at Coffs Harbour and Tweed Gold Coast. Recently plans were also announced to build a new multi-million dollar campus on Queensland's Gold Coast, adjacent to the international airport. The University is the country’s seventh largest provider of distance education. It also has international students from more than 50 countries. More than 700 students are enrolled on-campus and with on-shore partners in Australia, with a further 1300 enrolled in overseas programs. Southern Cross University offers courses in arts and social sciences, business and tourism, law, health and environmental science.
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History
Southern Cross University was established on 1 January 1994, following the dismantling of the University of New England which had been established as a network university in 1989. The original tertiary institution in Lismore was the Lismore Teachers College which was founded in 1971. This institution was expanded and renamed the Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education in 1973. Following the publication of the Australian Government White Paper on Higher Education in 1988, and its emphasis on the development of larger institutions, the Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education agreed to an association with the then University of New England and formally became a network member of the newly constituted University of New England under legislation brought down in 1989. During 1992, in response to a submission from the Board of Governors of the University of New England, the State and Commonwealth Ministers responsible for Higher Education established an Advisory Group to consider the implications of the Board’s proposal that the network University of New England be dismantled. The Advisory Group recommended that a new university be established in the North Coast Region of New South Wales as an academically integrated institution incorporating the current UNE network centres at Northern Rivers and Coffs Harbour, with the potential to establish additional sites at other North Coast centres as required. It also proposed that the new university develop under the sponsorship of a major metropolitan university for the first three years, while operating under its own name and Council and awarding its own degrees. The Ministers jointly appointed an Implementation Advisory Panel to advise on the strategies necessary to give effect to the proposed new structures and announced that the successor institutions to the UNE network would be established in time for the 1994 academic year. On 29 June 1993, the Minister for Education and the State Minister for Education and Youth Affairs, announced the outcome of the joint Commonwealth/State review of the future provision of higher education in Northern New South Wales. The announcement included the statement that a new university would be established on the North Coast of New South Wales, which would consist of campuses at Lismore (formerly UNE-Northern Rivers) and Coffs Harbour (formerly UNE-Coffs Harbour Centre). It was subsequently announced that the new institution would be called Southern Cross University. Appropriate legislation was passed by both houses of the New South Wales Parliament in October 1993, and received the Royal Assent on 9 November 1993. Professor Paul Clark assumed office of Vice Chancellor in 2004, as the University celebrated its tenth anniversary.
Campuses
Lismore
The Lismore campus is the largest and central campus of the University. It occupies 60 Ha in the North Coast area. The campus is 3 km from Lismore City's CBD. The Lismore campus houses the majority of the University’s academic and research units and most essential student facilities and services are available on this campus.
Coffs Harbour
Students at the Coffs Harbour Education Campus New South Wales Coffs Harbour campus are enrolled in a range of degree programs from Tourism Management courses to programs in education, nursing, arts, information technology, business, social science, psychology and human services.
Tweed Gold Coast
The Tweed Gold Coast campus, on the NSW-Qld border, incorporates the latest educational delivery technology[clarify] within a modern facility. Courses include business, tourism management, sport management, human resource management, social science and secondary education.
Sydney
Southern Cross University offers a Bachelor of Arts at Macleay College for students who have completed either a Diploma in Journalism or a Diploma in Advertising through the college. The University offers a Bachelor of Business in Hotel Management through The Hotel School in Sydney, focusing on hotel operational skills and management practice and the tourism and hospitality industries.
National Marine Science Centre
Southern Cross University is also a partner in the National Marine Science Centre, located at Coffs Harbour and in the center of the Solitary Islands Marine Park. Students complete two years of a Bachelor of Marine Science and Management at the Lismore campus. Their final year is at Coffs Harbour where they study specialist marine science units. The SCU marine science course is widely considered as the top marine science course in Australia.
Structure
Governance
The University is governed by a Council, to which its Chief Executive Officer, the Vice-Chancellor, reports. This Council is responsible for the management of the University's affairs. The major academic body providing advice to Council on academic matters is the Academic Board. The Council is chaired by the Chancellor. The Council has 19 members, including the Vice-Chancellor, the Chair of the Academic Board, six members appointed by the Minister, four members appointed by council, three elected staff members and one elected student member.
Academic structure
The institution is divided into two faculties, and a number of Schools and Colleges included within those faculties.
- Faculty of Arts and Science
- School of Arts and Social Sciences
- School of Education
- School of Environmental Science and Management
- Gnibi College of Indigenous Australian Peoples
- School of Health and Human Sciences
- Department of Psychology
- Department of Exercise Science and Sport Management
- Department of Natural and Complementary Medicine
- Department of Nursing and Health Care Practices
- Faculty of Business and Law
- School of Commerce and Management
- School of Tourism and Hospitality Management
- School of Law and Justice
- Graduate College of Management
- The Hotel School, Sydney
Principal officers
As of 2004, the current holders of offices within the University are:
- Chancellor & Chair of Council
- The Honourable Justice John Dowd AO
- Deputy Chancellor & Deputy Chair of Council
- David Vincent Cody
- Vice Chancellor & President
- Professor Paul Clark
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