A message from the Vice Chancellor

Hi everyone, 

I want to thank our Campus Environment team who have been doing an extraordinary amount of work to maintain and clean up campus after last week’s storms. THANK YOU!!! For those just back on campus, welcome back and please make sure you have updated your ANUOK app as it is one of the fastest ways to communicate to our community. 

The next few weeks will see our campus resume more activity and excitingly, the return of students! We will have residential hall move-in days, Graduations week, Orientation week and the start of classes for semester 1. All of these signify a huge amount of time and energy, much of which happens behind the scenes until the day – and these are the moments that shape our student’s first experiences on campus. Graduations and O-week are large events, and the teams running them will need volunteers to help things run smoothly. If you have time, or can support in some way, please reach out to the Graduations Office or the central Events team. 

Next week, I am looking forward to two sets of activities - hosting a set of celebrations for our academic staff who were recently promoted through levels B to E and the Australian launch of the Rio Tinto Centre for Future Materials. For our academic staff promotions, these rites of passage are important to recognise, and on behalf of the leadership team, congratulations. 

Next week also sees the Council and sub-committee cycle resume for 2025. ANU Council (and the sub-committees which ladder up to Council), are our guardrails for governance - setting the mission, values and strategic direction of ANU and reviewing our progress against these. 

Good thoughts to where this may find you,

Genevieve