1.2 Mallett Street campus

The Mallett Street campus is home of the Faculty of Nursing. The University administration has recently proposed a "change management plan" such that, starting from 2005, there will be no further admissions into undergraduate nursing courses.

The students from the Faculty of Nursing, along with the Students Representative Council, have vocally opposed the proposal to close undergraduate nursing and have held several protests against the proposal which would, effectively, see the closure of the Faculty of Nursing.

1.3 Cumberland campus

Formerly an independent institution (the Cumberland College of Health Sciences), the Cumberland campus in the Sydney suburb of Lidcombe was incorporated into the University as part of the higher education reforms of the late 1980s. It is home to the Faculty of Health Science, which covers various allied health disciplines, including physiotherapy, speech therapy, radiation therapy, occupational therapy, etc.

1.4 Law campus

Near St. James Railway Station in the centre of Sydney, this is located across the road from the New South Wales Supreme Court. In 2007, it is expected that the Faculty of Law will move to the main campus following the construction of the new law building in the vicinty of Fisher Library.

1.5 Conservatorium of Music

Main article: Sydney Conservatorium of MusicThe Sydney Conservatorium of Music (formerly the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music is a faculty of the University of Sydney in Australia. The principal objective of the conservatorium is to prepare gifted students for a professional career in.

The Conservatorium of Music is located near Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens a short distance from the Sydney Opera HouseThe Sydney Opera House in Sydney, New South Wales , Australia, is one of the most distinctive and famous 20th-century buildings, and one of the most famous performing arts venues in the world. Situated on Bennelong Point in Sydney Harbour, with parkland t; it was acquired by the University in the 1990s. It is not to be confused with the University of Sydney's main campus Department of Music, which was the subject of a notable documentary called Facing the Music .

1.6 Orange Agricultural College

Located at Orange in rural NSW, the Orange Agricultural College joined in 1994. Orange campus is principally the domain of the Faculty of Rural Management - however other undergraduate courses from the Faculties of Arts, Science, Nursing and Pharmacy are also taught at Orange.

The university administration has recently proposed a "change management plan" to sell Orange Campus and the Faculty of Rural Management to Charles Sturt University. Staff, in particular, have objected to this proposal and have campaigned to stop this transfer of ownership.

1.7 Camden campus

Located on Sydney's southwest rural fringe, the Camden campus houses research farms for agriculture and veterinary science.

1.8 Narrabri Plant Research Centre

The Narrabri Plant Research Centre is located at Narrabri , near the Queensland border.

1.9 Higher Education (Amalgamation) Act 1989

Under the terms of the Higher Education (Amalgamation) Act 1989, the following bodies were incorporated into the University of Sydney in 1990:

• the Sydney Branch of the NSW State Conservatorium of Music
• the Cumberland College of Health Sciences
• the Sydney College of the Arts of the Institute of the Arts
• the Sydney Institute of Education of the Sydney College of Advanced Education
• the Institute of Nursing Studies of the Sydney College of Advanced Education
• the Guild Centre of the Sydney College of Advanced Education.

The Orange Agricultural College was originally transferred to the University of New England under the Act, but then transferred to the University of Sydney in 1994, as part of the reforms to the University of New England undertaken by the University of New England Act 1993 and the Southern Cross University Act 1993.

The New England University College was founded as part of the University of Sydney in 1938, and separated to become the University of New England in 1954.

2 Library

Fisher Library, the main building of the University of Sydney Library.

Main article: University of Sydney Library.

The University of Sydney Library consists of numerous individual libraries with the main building, Fisher Library, named after an early benefactor. The University library is the largest in the southern hemisphere, with a collection of over 5.1 million items. It possesses many rare items such as one of the two extant copies of the Gospel of Barnabas, and a first edition of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Sir Isaac Newton.

3 Museums and galleries

Museums and galleries which are part of the university include the Nicholson Museum of Antiquities and the Macleay Museum .

4 Alumni

The University of Sydney boasts a large number of alumni, some quite famous and influential, who have gone on to make significant contributions in their chosen fields of endeavour. These include:

• Prime Ministers of Australia - Edmund Barton, William McMahon, Gough Whitlam and John Howard
• Governors-General of Australia - Sir Zelman Cowen, Sir John Kerr, Sir William Deane
• Governors of New South Wales - Sir Roden Cutler
• Premiers of New South Wales - Neville Wran , Nick Greiner
• Justices of the High Court - Michael Kirby, William Gummow
• Former Lord Mayor of Sydney - Frank Sartor
• Nobel Laureates - Sir Robert Robinson (Sydney's first Professor of Pure and Applied Organic Chemistry 1912 - Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1947), Sir John Cornforth (graduated with BSc 1938 and University Medal and MSc 1939 - Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1975), John Harsanyi (graduated with Masters in Economics 1966 - Nobel Prize in Economics 1994)
• Archaeologists - Vere Gordon Childe (1913), Basil Hennessy (1950), Stephen Bourke , Alison Betts , Karin Sowada , Paul James Cowie (1991)
• Writers - Christopher Brennan, Kate Grenville , Les Murray, Germaine Greer, Robert Hughes and Clive James
• Film Directors - Jane Campion, Peter Weir and Bruce Beresford
• Geologist and Antarctic explorer, Sir Douglas Mawson
• President of the United Nations General Assembly (1948-1949), Dr Herbert Vere Evatt
• Aboriginal leaders Charles Perkins and Noel Pearson
• Opera divas Dame Joan Sutherland and Yvonne Kenny

5 External links

• University of Sydney website
• University of Sydney Library

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