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Jill Ker Conway – former vice-president of the University of Toronto and President of Smith College; Visiting Professor in MIT's program in Science, Technology, and Society; Chairman of Lendlease; director of Nike, Merrill Lynch, and Colgate-Palmolive; Beverly Derewianka – Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wollongong
The Students' Representative Council (SRC) is the representative body for undergraduate students at the University of Sydney.In addition to a student-elected council and student advocacy portfolios, the SRC coordinates a free legal service and caseworker service for all undergraduate students at the University of Sydney.
Since the development of the university sector in Australia and the foundation of the first university (University of Sydney, 1850), a small number of Vice-Chancellors have served for 15 years or more with some portion of this time in office as Vice-Chancellor in Australia.
The University of Sydney (USYD) is a public research university in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in both Australia and Oceania. [14] One of Australia's six sandstone universities, it was one of the world's first universities to admit students solely on academic merit, and opened its doors to women on the same basis as men. [15]
Mark Walter Scott AO (born 9 October 1962) is an Australian and American public servant and academic administrator who serves as the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Sydney. Scott had previously held a senior role at Fairfax Media , responsible for the editorial content of the group's major newspapers, including The Sydney ...
Michael James Spence (born 10 January 1962) is an Australian university administrator who served as the vice-chancellor and principal of the University of Sydney from 2008 to 2020. [2] He is currently the president and provost of University College London. [3]
Robert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford (8 January 1936 – 28 April 2020) was an Australian scientist who was Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, President of the Royal Society, [8] and a professor at the University of Sydney and Princeton University. He held joint professorships at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London.
He entered the University of Sydney at the age of 16, graduating Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Bachelor of Laws (LLB). In 1959 he earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Harvard Business School. [6] [7] In his 2010 memoirs he revealed that he failed several university classes, including English, and was a "late developer". [8]