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University of Sydney

Motto	Sidere mens eadem mutato "The stars change, [but] the mind [remains] the same"
Established	1850
Chancellor	Justice Kim Santow
Vice-Chancellor	Professor Gavin Brown
Location	Sydney NSW, Australia
Students	47,296 total (2004)
Member of	Group of Eight, APRU
Homepage	http://www.usyd.edu.au

The University of Sydney, established in 1850, is the oldest university in Australia and is located in Sydney, the capital city of the state of New South Wales. It is one of Australia's " Group of Eight" leading universities and remains one of the country's largest educational institutions. In 2004, the University of Sydney reported an enrolment of 47,296 students and employed 2,451 academics.

Centred on the Oxbridge-inspired grounds of the University's Main Campus on the southern outskirts of the City of Sydney CBD, the University of Sydney now possesses a number of campuses as a result of mergers in recent years.

The motto of the University of Sydney is Sidere mens eadem mutato (the stars change, but the mind is constant), reflecting its status as the first university in Australia and its being modelled after the British University of Oxford and University of Cambridge. It also ostensibly reflects the early goal of matching those English institutions in prestige and quality of education.

1 Campuses

The University has a number of campuses and is has continued to expand over the years. Until recently, the University also operated the Museum of Contemporary Art.

As of 2004, the campuses are:

1.1 Camperdown/Darlington (main) campus

Originally housed in what is now Sydney Grammar School, in 1855 the government granted the university land in Grose Farm, three kilometers 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, although there are many departmental buildings now. The great expansion of the university in the mid- 20th century19th century 20th century 21st century more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901- 2000 in the sense of the Gre 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.

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

The University is currently undertaking a large capital works program, which 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.

1.2 Mallett Street campus

The Mallett Street campus is home of the Faculty of Nursing. The University administration has recently proposed a "change management plan" such that, starting from 2005, there will be no further admissions into undergraduate nursing courses.

The students from the Faculty of Nursing, along with the Students Representative Council, have vocally opposed the proposal to close undergraduate nursing and have held several protests against the proposal which would, effectively, see the closure of the Faculty of Nursing.

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