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The new ANU Colleges were launched at the start of this year, marking another important step forward in the University’s organisational evolution.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Chubb made a public announcement about the colleges prior to the conferring of degrees last month and graduation ceremonies were organised by college for the first time.
“The University’s new structure will give substance to the age-old mantra that links universities with research-led education,” Professor Chubb said.
“We all talk about it and we all use it to differentiate the character of our institutions from others in the post-school education sector. However, there are just a few institutions comprehensive enough and with a broad enough profile of research across all the academic disciplines to give it meaning.
“And of those, our unique combination of Research Schools and Faculties positions us where few others can go. Where others derive their research from their teaching, ANU builds its teaching on the base of its research.
“ANU is really an education-intensive research institute. Our view is therefore simply expressed: if it is important enough for us to research a field, it is important enough for us to teach that field.
“To achieve our objective, we need to plan and organise differently, then deliver at an even higher level. Accordingly, we will launch a new structure on January 1 2006 with seven colleges linking research and teaching at undergraduate, postgraduate and higher degree levels,” he said
The process of establishing the ANU Colleges began early in 2005 with extensive consultation with staff following recommendations from the external review of quality of research and education outcomes at ANU, ANU – university with a difference, which was released in September 2004. The process is expected to be complete by January 2007.
“The colleges will give ANU the base to achieve research at the highest standards of excellence and educational programs informed by current research and active researchers that will give students a memorably good experience of ANU,” said Professor Chubb.
“A university like ours is complex and the new college initiative will also allow ANU to make the best use of its resources and avoid unnecessary duplication.”
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