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Engaging Indigenous people within Higher Ed

CQUniversity's Office of Indigenous Engagement recently hosted a visit from the Oodgeroo Unit of Queensland University of Technology (QUT), at Rockhampton Campus.

Professor Anita Lee Hong, Director of the Oodgeroo Unit, and Lone Pearce, Project Officer, met with Office of Indigenous Engagement staff to discuss employment issues and best practice models for engaging Indigenous people within the higher education sector, including governance matters.

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Taylor becomes first woman president of engineering body 

CQU's Executive Dean of the Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Health Professor Elizabeth Taylor has become the first woman president of the Australian Council of Engineering Deans (ACED).

PhotoID:3813 Professor Taylor was elected to the position earlier this month by the council\'s members and replaces Professor Archie Johnston, Dean of Engineering at the University of Technology Sydney.

Professor Taylor said she was honoured by the appointment and would use her position to establish relationships with other organisations such as the NZ Council of Engineering Deans and the Australian Council of Deans of Sciences.

She also aims to bring issues of interest to ACED members before the government and industry.

Photo: Professor Elizabeth Taylor