University of Queensland

University of Queensland
motto	Scientia ac laboratories By means of knowledge and hard work "Through knowledge and hard work"
founding	December 10, 1909
Sponsorship	state
place	Brisbane , Australia
Vice-Chancellor	Peter Høj
Students	53,696 (2018)
Employee	6,613 (2018)
Annual budget	AU $ 1.713 billion (2015)
Networks	Universitas 21
Website	www.uq.edu.au

The University of Queensland (UQ) is a university in Brisbane . It was founded on December 10, 1909 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the separation of the state of Queensland from New South Wales . This made the UQ the first university in the region and the fifth in Australia .

It is one of the world's leading research and teaching institutions and was ranked 47th in the QS World University Rankings in the 2019/20 academic year . She is also a member of the Group of Eight , an association of the strongest research universities in Australia, and Universitas 21 , an international network of universities.

history

Foundation and beginnings

The considerations of founding a university in Brisbane go back to 1874, although the initial impetus for this came from a Royal Commission in 1891. Although there was definitely an ambition to create an institution on a par with the older universities in the southern states, the aim was in particular to set up a university for the working class in order to raise the level of technical education in Queensland, which was until then quite rural. The university was founded on December 10, 1909 by the "The University of Queensland Act 1909" of the Queensland Parliament on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the independence of the colony of Queensland from New South Wales as Queensland's first and Australia's fifth university. Since the Old Government House and the approximately 15 hectare surrounding land next to the Botanical Garden could be converted quickly and relatively inexpensively or built with additional lecture halls and laboratories, it was decided to locate Gardens Point close to the city at the southern tip of today's Central Business District and against Victoria Park. Over 2,000 people were in attendance when then Queensland Governor William MacGregor officially handed over the Old Government House on December 10, 1909. After the governor and his family moved out of residence in 1910, the University of Queensland took up residence in 1911 with 83 students (60 men and 23 women), 4 professors, 10 lecturers and the three faculties of Humanities (Arts), Natural Sciences (Science) and Engineering (Engineering) teaching operation.

After the end of the First World War , the university began to grow rapidly, which soon made the Gardens Point campus too small. In 1926, the two new faculties for economics and agriculture added to the university's range of courses and an additional plot of land in Victoria Park was intended to provide space for expansion. However, it soon became clear that this expansion would not be able to keep up with the growth of the university and that another, longer-term solution had to be found for the University of Queensland. This solution was made possible by James O'Neil Mayne and his younger sister Mary Emelia Mayne, who came from a wealthy Brisbane family. Between 1927 and 1929 they donated nearly 60,000 Australian pounds to finance the purchase of 98 hectares of land in St. Lucia, which until then had mainly been used to grow sugar cane and pineapples . In addition, the university gave up the land at Victoria Park in exchange for around 4 hectares of land adjacent to Brisbane General Hospital. In the same year Thomas Parnell , professor of physics, started the famous pitch drop experiment , the longest-running experiment in the world. Although the space required to build a new campus was now available, financing the project was difficult , mainly due to the global economic crisis . While the legal , dental , veterinary and medical faculties were added in 1935 and 1936 and meanwhile more than 1,000 students, 15 professors and 21 lecturers at the University of Queensland were studying or working, the architectural office of Hennessy, Hennessy and Co. with the plans for the campus. The plans identified an ensemble of buildings which, arranged in a D-shape, now form the Great Court of the St. Lucia Campus and were to be erected on a hill of the campus to ensure the best possible view and protection against flooding. An arcade was also planned on the side facing the Great Court , through which the students can reach each building protected from rain and storms. The estimated cost of the proposed buildings was around one million Australian pounds. Construction work on the ensemble began in 1938.

World War II and post-war period

When the Second World War broke out in 1939 , the university now had more than 1,700 students. Two buildings of the Great Court were already completed: the Main Building (now the Forgan Smith Building, named after the former Premier of Queensland, William Forgan Smith ) and the Building for the Chemistry (now the Steele Building, named after Bertram D. Steele, the University of Queensland's first chemistry professor). As the needs of the war now came to the fore, further development of the St. Lucia Campus had to wait. The University of Queensland was given a week at the end of July 1942 to vacate the newly constructed buildings and make them available to General Thomas Blamey , Commander in Chief of the Land Forces of Australia and Commander of the Allied Land Forces in the Southwest Pacific, as Advanced Headquarters, Allied Defense Forces. During this occupation of the buildings, which continued from August 1, 1942, the University of Queensland planned the further use and development of the campus and the buildings after the troops had withdrawn. The campus at Gardens Point was nowhere near enough for the students and so the university was already using a dormitory of the agricultural faculty as a classroom for engineering students during the occupation. When General Blamey and his troops first cleared the Forgan Smith Building on December 31, 1944 and the chemical building on May 30, 1945, they had to be returned to their original condition. The repairs affected a total of 229 rooms and cost the university 12,668 Australian pounds. The relatively rapid reduction in troops after 1945 also brought about a rapid change in the tertiary education in Australia. While in 1945 there were still 2,207 students enrolled at the University of Queensland, the number jumped to over 4,400 students in 1949. The available financial resources also improved considerably after 1945. The rest of the Great Court Ensemble's buildings were gradually completed. The complete move from Gardens Point to the St. Lucia campus was still a long time. It was not until 1972 that the University of Queensland left the old campus, which is now home to the Queensland University of Technology .

Younger story

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Speech by the 44th President of the United States , Barack Obama , to University of Queensland students on November 15, 2014

When the dual system of Collages of Advanced Education (CAE) and universities were abolished in 1990 and smaller institutions were merged with larger universities in order to give all institutions university status, the University of Queensland initially took over the Queensland Agricultural College in Gatton as "The University of Queensland , Gatton College ". In conjunction with a new investment plan from Senior Vice-Chancellor Ted Brown to bring new courses and improved facilities to Gatton , Gatton College was expanded to become the University of Queensland's Gatton Campus. From 1994 onwards, the Queensland government made additional funds available to universities to enable tertiary education in places that were not yet adequately supplied. Therefore, the university decided to open another campus. The choices were Springfield, Gatton and Ipswich . In 1998 the Challinor Center, formerly a center for people with intellectual disabilities, was listed as a Historic Monument and given to the University of Queensland for the construction of a new campus in Ipswich . Within a year, the most necessary modifications were made in order to be able to start teaching as early as 1999. Little by little, new buildings were also added to the campus to meet modern requirements. Today, more than 45,000 students study over 420 different courses at the University of Queensland. The university's alumni network includes more than 200,000 alumni in over 160 countries. In May 2013, the University of Queensland joined the Massive Open Online Course program edX at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University , and in 2014, at the launch of the UQx program, it is offering four courses in Medical Imaging , Hypersonic Velocity , Decision Making and tropical ecosystems .

Approval scandal (2010)

In 2011, the university became embroiled in a medical student admission scandal, widely known in the Australian media as the “ UQ nepotism scandal ”. In December 2010, the medical faculty offered the daughter of then Vice-Chancellor Paul Greenfield a place to study, although she did not meet the admission requirements and was placed 344th on the waiting list. The study place offered was also a publicly funded place. It took more than nine months for the registration scandal to be discovered. As a result, the University's Vice-Chancellor Paul Greenfield resigned in January 2012. The Queensland Crime and Misconduct Commission was appointed to investigate the matter, but this did not result in any further personal or criminal consequences.

University of Queensland campus

University of Queensland campus

campus

St. Lucia

The oldest and main campus of the university is in St. Lucia on the Brisbane River . In the middle of the campus is the Great Court, a 2.5 hectare square that is surrounded by sandstone buildings. The 111 hectares of the campus include sports fields, gardens, ponds and bike paths. The sports center has 21 lighted tennis courts, an Olympic-sized swimming pool, a three-story gymnasium and a versatile fitness center.

Also in St. Lucia is the university's anthropological museum with a focus on Australian and oceanic anthropology and archeology.

The St. Lucia Campus can be reached via a CityCat wharf, two bus stops and the Eleanor Schonell Bridge, which enables pedestrians and buses to cross the Brisbane River towards Dutton Park.

Gatton

The campus is 90 km from Brisbane in Gatton . For the most part, the Queensland Agricultural College (QAC), which was founded in 1897 together with an experimental farm, is located here. In 1990 the QAC and the UQ merged. Today, the campus offers courses on agriculture, animal breeding science, environmental management, agricultural economics / agriculture, equine science, studies of wild life and bushland, as well as other areas related to nature and the environment. The location has 1000 hectares of arable land, animal breeding stations, a horse farm, laboratories and a branch of the UQ library.

Ipswich

The Ipswich Campus opened in 1999, making it the newest campus. The 25 hectare site accommodates 20 buildings and 4,000 students. The range of courses includes humanities, economics and social sciences as well as interaction design. Medicine has also been taught in Ipswich since 2009.

In 1878 a branch of the Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum (Woogaroo Psychiatry) was established on this site. In the following years there were a number of renaming: Ipswich Hospital for the Insane (1910), Ipswich Mental Hospital (1938), Ipswich Special Hospital (1964) and in 1968 it was finally renamed the Challinor Center, in honor of the surgeon Dr. Henry Challinor, renamed. From 1968 to 1997 people with intellectual disabilities were cared for at the Challinor Center. In 1997 the clinic became the UQ's Ipswich Campus.

Faculties

There are six faculties, which in turn are divided into different academic units (schools):

• Faculty of Humanities
• Faculty of Business Administration , Economics and Law
• Faculty of Engineering , Architecture and Information Technology
• Faculty of Health Sciences
• Faculty of Science
• Faculty of Social Sciences and Behavioral Studies

Web links

• Official website (English)
• History of the University of Queensland, fryer library (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ University of Queensland: Vice-Chancellor. Retrieved August 2, 2019 . 
2. ^ ^{A b} The University of Queensland: Profiles . On: uq.edu.au. Retrieved February 10, 2020.
3. ^ The University of Queensland: 2015 Annual Report. On: uq.edu.au. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
4. ↑ QS World University Rankings 2020. On: topuniversities.com. Retrieved January 4, 2014.
5. ^ ^{A b c d} The University of Queensland: The Forgan Smith Building and the Great Court at the University of Queensland.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On: uq.edu.au. Retrieved January 3, 2014.  
6. ^ ^{A b} Queensland University of Technology: Queensland's first University founded at Old Government House. On: qut.edu.au. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
7. ^ The University of Queensland: Dr James O'Neil Mayne's legacy to UQ remembered in bronze. On: uq.edu.au. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
8. ^ The University of Queensland: Wartime images feature in anniversary exhibition. On: uq.edu.au. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
9. ^ The University of Queensland: QAC Joins the University of Queensland (1990). On: uq.edu.au. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
10. ↑ The University of Queensland: Challinor Center (1968-1999). ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On: uq.edu.au. Retrieved January 3, 2014. 
11. ↑ The University of Queensland: UQ Ipswich Campus - The University of Queensland 1999 ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On: uq.edu.au. Retrieved January 3, 2014. 
12. ^ The University of Queensland: Courses and Programs. On: uq.edu.au. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
13. ↑ The University of Queensland: UQ Australian Undergraduate Guide 2014. At: uq.edu.au. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
14. ^ The University of Queensland: UQx - What is edX? ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On: uqx.uq.edu.au. Retrieved January 4, 2014. 
15. ↑ ABC News: Details of University of Queensland nepotism scandal exposed On: abc.net.au. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
16. ^ The Australian: UQ Vice-Chancellor Paul Greenfield hastens his exit on: theaustralian.com.au. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
17. ↑ Crime and Misconduct Commission Queensland: Update on CMC examination of University of Queensland matters Auf: cmc.qld.gov.au. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
18. ^ Museum website

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