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- Australia's First University
1960s and beyond. 1965 Honi Soit sends a reporter to Vietnam. 1972 USU and Sydney University Women’s Union join forces. 2008 Biggest ever fundraising drive, INSPIRED, launches. 2012 'Wingara Mura – Bunga Barrabugu' strategy launches to encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participation.
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Sydney University was opened to students on 11 October 1852 with Reverend Dr John Woolley as its foundation Principal. Eighteen scholarships were funded for students who could not afford fees. The university was first located in the former Sydney College building.
Rev. John Woolley, Professor of Classics and Logic, 1852-66. Credit: Sydney Mail via Trove We confess that when the Act for incorporating and endowing a Sydney University was passed by the local ...
Wentworth was among the first members of the university's senate, mentioned in the governor's proclamation alongside three religious ministers. [15] Two years later, the university was inaugurated on 11 October 1852 in the Big Schoolroom of what is now Sydney Grammar School.
The articles have been written by staff from across the university who work on research projects that record and explore the history of the University of Sydney. You can also watch recordings of previous History of University Life seminars. If you’d like to get in touch email university.historian@sydney.edu.au.
