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Template:Cleanup-date Template:Infobox University Deakin University is a large Australian university based in Geelong, Melbourne, and Warrnambool, Victoria. It was named after Alfred Deakin, Australia's second Prime Minister who served three terms in 1903-04, 1905-08 and 1909-10.
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History
Deakin University was founded in 1974 as a result of a report by the Fourth University Commission, which aimed to establish Victoria's fourth university in regional Victoria. The commission reviewed two other possible regional sites at Ballarat and Bendigo, recommending Geelong.
Upon establishment, Deakin absorbed the Geelong campus of the then State College of Victoria and adopted several of the more academic subject areas of the Gordon Institute of Technology (now the Gordon Institute of TAFE), which began concentrating on vocational education. It took its first students at its Waurn Ponds campus in 1977.
Deakin remained a single campus university for approximately fifteen years until the Federal Government's Dawkins Revolution of higher education in the late 1980s came into effect. As a result, Deakin became a larger university by merging with the Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education in August 1990 and Melbourne's Victoria College in December 1991.
In the 1980s and early 1990s, debate ensued in Geelong about the fate of the city's historic waterfront woolstores, which were dilapidated amidst an area which was undergoing major development. Some were demolished despite a community outcry, and their fate remained unclear, when Deakin University offered to acquire the remaining buildings for a sixth campus. Major renovations took place over several years, and in 1997, the Woolstores campus (now the Geelong Waterfront campus) opened.
The result of the developments created a large multi-campus university spanning 300 kilometres covering six campuses in the cities of Melbourne (Burwood, Rusden (Clayton) and Toorak), Geelong (Waurn Ponds and Geelong Waterfront) and Warrnambool.
In the early 2000s, the university decided to close the Rusden campus. The campus was progressively closed between 2001 and 2003, with students and courses relocated to the extensively developed Burwood campus. Rusden's buildings have been converted into student accommodation and now forms part of Monash University's Clayton campus.
Campuses
Melbourne
The main campus of the university is in the Eastern suburb of Burwood, on Burwood Highway. In terms of area, the campus is relatively small. But the student population is quite high (over 12,000 students in 2003), creating a rather crowded environment. The campus layout manages this well with many multi-story buildings. The campus is based around Mutant Way which acts as a giant centralised courtyard which is enjoyed by students on sunny days.
This campus undergoes frequent building developments. Recent developments include the construction of Building P (Arts) and Building T (Science) for the students who transferred over from the closed Rusden campus. Currently a large central precinct is under construction next to the 5-storey car park at the rear of the campus, in which a gymnasium has just opened.
A smaller campus, called Toorak but technically in Malvern, accomodates many of Deakin's international students. A third campus, Rusden, located in Clayton, was progressively closed in 2001-2003 and converted to student accommodation.
The three Melbourne campuses originally constituted Victoria College (and previously separate teachers' colleges) before being incorporated into Deakin University in the 1990s.
Geelong
The original campus of Deakin University is located in the regional city of Geelong in the suburb of Waurn Ponds. Located an hour away from Melbourne, it has over 1,000 staff and about 3,000 students. The Waurn Ponds campus will soon be home to Victoria's third medical school after Deakin recently won ahead of many other institutions across the country to receive 120 new Commenwealth supported places to be based at the campus.
A second Geelong campus, Geelong Waterfront (previously the Woolstores Campus), opened in 1997 in a structurally superb set of refurbished woolstores near the city's waterfront. The renovations, which were undertaken throughout the mid-1990s, retained most of the original internal elements. The campus offers degrees in architecture, construction management and nursing.
Warrnambool
The university also maintains another regional campus in the coastal town of Warrnambool.
Faculties and Schools
The University is divided into five faculties:
- Faculty of Arts
- Research and Graduate Studies
- School of Communication and Creative Arts
- School of Social and International Studies
- Faculty of Business and Law
- Bowater School of Management and Marketing
- School of Accounting, Economics and Finance
- School of Law
- School of Information Systems
- Faculty of Education
- Research and Doctoral Studies
- School of Social and Cultural Studies in Education
- School of Scientific and Developmental Studies in Education
- Consultancy and Development Unit
- Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences
- School of Psychology
- School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences
- School of Health and Social Development
- School of Nursing
- Faculty of Science and Technology
- School of Architecture and Building
- School of Biological and Chemical Sciences
- School of Information Technology
- School of Ecology and Environment
- School of Engineering and Technology
Deakin University Students' Association
Template:Main The Deakin University Student Association (DUSA4U) is the main student association across all campuses. DUSA is one of the largest student organisations in Australia, representing more than 33,500 students. DUSA4U offers a wide range of member benefits and facilities the running of all the universities clubs and societies.
Chancellors
Alumni
- Emma Alberici, ABC Current Affairs Reporter
- Phillip Aspinall, Anglican archbishop: MBA
- Julie Attwood, politician
- Trish Crossin, politician
- Neil Comrie, Former Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police: BA
- Denis Napthine, Former leader of Victorian Liberal Party: MBA
- Livinia Nixon, Nine Network Weather reporter
- Errol Vieth, academic: MEd
- Mandawuy Yunupingu, indigenous musician and community leader: BA