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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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CQU Graduation at Rockhampton 

Published on 25 September, 2002 

Graduation: Central Queensland Community Sports Centre, 1PM.

Building #9 on Rockhampton Campus to be named for former Vice Chancellor Geoff Wilson, 11am Ceremony.

260 graduates from Albany Creek to Yeronga will attend a graduation ceremony at Central Queensland University on Friday. The ceremony is scheduled to start at 1PM at the Central Queensland Community Sports Centre, on the Rockhampton Campus.

PhotoID:283 Guest speaker, former CQU Vice Chancellor (1991-1996) Professor Geoff Wilson will address graduates. Currently the Vice-Chancellor of Victoria's Deakin University, Professor Wilson comes "home" to CQU, where he enhanced the university's research programs and developed new centres for advanced learning including the world-class Centre for Molecular Architecture (CMA). The Centre, opened in 1992 in Rockhampton, builds new molecules. Research at the CMA formed the basis for methods of fingerprint detection (fluorescence spectroscopy) which received worldwide acclaim and court acceptance in forensic science.

Building 9, where the centre is located, will be officially designated the Geoff Wilson Building on Friday.

"Geoff's vision was... to provide... facilities equal to the best in Australia and of world standing," explained Professor Kevin Fagg, CQU's Deputy Vice Chancellor (Resources). Amanda O'Brien, who will receive a Bachelor of Arts with Distinction, will speak on behalf of her classmates.

Also attending the ceremony is 77-year-old Grace Johansen of Gladstone, one of Central Queensland University's oldest students to earn a Doctor of Philosophy. A well-respected historian, Dr Johansen completed her research on the role of women who worked in regional Queensland from 1940 to 1965. Her first historical text (on the Fitzroy Shire Council) will be published next year. The mother of two started studies at CQU at age 63.

Grace is among 7 people receiving PhDs, including Meryl Ferguson, who has researched the life cycle of turtles - more details to go here. The French Ambassador to Australia, His Excellency Monsieur Pierre Viaux, will attend the graduation ceremony. The Ambassador, who will meet with Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Glenice Hancock, is a guest of the Central Queensland Alliance Frangaise (Rockhampton & District), the local chapter of a worldwide association that promotes interest in the French language and culture.

Photo: Geoff Wilson