In Principio v18 no1 (2007)

VICE CHANCELLOR'S REPORT having an appropriate ceremony in June this year. We have also commenced work in Fremantle on the major new health research building in Phillimore Street. This facility costing over $SM, and for, which we received a Commonwealth grant of about $3M, will be completed by the end of 2007, in time for the 2008 academic year. It will house an Insti tute for Health and Rehabilitation Research. It will also support teaching, professional training and research for our schools of Health Sciences and Medicine. It will be a signature building for the University at the entrance to the Fremantle Campus and, indeed, is the first new building we have constructed in the West End of Fremantle since our arrival there nearly 20 years ago! Recognising an outstanding contribution In Sydney, our campus is growing rapidly. Our facilities at St Benedict's on Broadway are already heavily utilised. We have leased two additional Broadway buildings which are already being used for academic purposes and our new facilities in Oxford Street, Darlinghurst, to house Medicine and Nursing, are rapidly approaching completion. They will be very beautiful and a landmark development for the University. They will be operational in January, 2008. I am pleased to report that the Archdiocese of Sydney has just purchased a building - 1300m 2 in area - adjacent to our Broadway site in Sydney for the University. This acquisition, at a cost of $SM, will enable the University to substantially increase its teaching spaces to support its enrolment growth plans. We are very grateful to Cardinal Pell and the Archdiocese for this substantial investment in the work of Notre Dame. It gives us confidence in planning for our future in that great city. There are plenty of challenges ahead, but we are confident about our direction and the fundamen tal worth of our mission and goals. It will be an exciting decade as we move to our target size of over 10,000 students, 5,000 in Fremantle, 5,000 in Sydney and steadily growing in Broome. Fremantle Student President James Scannell and Student Association member Emily Keys presenting Dr Keith McNaught with the Fremantle Campus 2007 Outstanding Lecturer Award. This award was developed by the Notre Dame Student Association in 2003 as an avenue through which students can recognise those lecturers who have had a positive influence on them throughout their studies. Photograph courtesy of GFP Studios 3 • :::; (") m (") I )> z (") m r– r- 0 ~ V\ ;;,::, m -0 0 ;;o -I