Category: News
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What You Need to Know About the New Faculty of Arts, Architecture and Design
By Shajara Khan On 22 July 2020 Professor Claire Annesley, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, held a faculty-wide Town Hall regarding the ‘merger’ of faculties. This comes after the announcement by Vice Chancellor Ian Jacobs that due to budget constraints, the current eight faculties will be reduced to six. In the…
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TL;DR: Uni Fee Changes
Last week, Arc hosted a panel discussion evening about the Federal government’s proposed university funding changes. The panel was hosted by Chair of the Arc Board Sahana Nandakumar and included President of the National Union of Students Molly Willmott, UNSW Deputy-Vice Chancellor Academic Merlin Crossley and Universities Australia Policy Advisor Mike Teece. We watched it…
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UNSW Pres. Ian Jacobs Announces Staff Cuts, Restructuring, in Light of COVID-19
by Axel-Nathaniel Rose On the 15th of July Vice Chancellor and President Ian Jacobs wrote to the staff body of UNSW announcing further plans for the University in light of COVID-19. He refers to ‘the impact[s] of COVID-19’ as ‘hard, unexpected and broad ranging’, and notes that much is still unknown; UNSW’s response to the…
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The Tumultuous Hellscape that Was the 2020 UNSW Council Election Is Over – Results Released
by Axel-Nathaniel Rose and Henry Chen The UNSW Council election has potentially never been so well publicised, with many students admitting to having not known the Council existed, let alone what it does. (Spoiler warning: it’s a big deal. All of the core executive decisions go through the Council, including setting mission statements and goals,…
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Here’s All the Undergraduate Candidates for the 2020 UNSW Council
By Jo Bradley Voting for the UNSW Council ends tomorrow (Monday the 29th, at 4pm). If you’re a UNSW student, you are probably vaguely aware of the elections because of the scandalous outing of then-candidate Claudia McDonnell’s racist social media posts via the UNSW Discussion Group (McDonnell has since exited the election after receiving widespread…
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UNSW Council Candidate Under Fire for Racist Social Media Posts
By Henry Chen Late on Monday night, screenshots surfaced in the UNSW Discussion Group on Facebook purporting to show racist comments made by Claudia McDonnell, a candidate for the Undergraduate Student Representative position on UNSW’s University Council. The University Council is UNSW’s governing body, where five elected staff and students sit alongside ten externally appointed…