50-793: Heiss may refer to: People [ edit ] Anita Heiss (born 1968), Australian author Carol Heiss (born 1940), American figure skater Christopher Elias Heiss (1660–1731), German painter Elisabeth Heiss (born 1978), Austrian politician Josef Heiss (born 1963), German ice hockey player Michael Heiss (1818–1890), American bishop Stella Heiss (born 1993), German curler William C. Heiss (born c. 1923), American athlete and coach Other uses [ edit ] Heiss Island , an island in Franz Josef Land, Russia See also [ edit ] Marian Heiss Price (born 1938), Nebraska state senator Topics referred to by
100-616: A bar (not operational), a music room and a large collection of Hawkesbury Agricultural College memorabilia. The campus was originally the Hawkesbury Agricultural College , established by the New South Wales Department of Agriculture in 1891. It later became a College of Advanced Education until 1989, then UWS Hawkesbury (as a member institution of UWS with campuses and Richmond and Quaker's Hill) until 2000. The School of Agriculture operated
150-842: A brand new Medical facility called the Blacktown-Mount Druitt Clinical school which would be based at Blacktown Hospital, making it the second clinical school associated with the School of Medicine ; the first school being the Macarthur Clinical School at Campbelltown Hospital which opened in March 2007. In 2017 the university announced plans to sell off land held on the Nirimba site, previously set aside for student accommodation. The library located in C21
200-708: A broadcast operations centre located on the Werrington South Campus. In 2006, the UWS news site reported: "Demand to study at the University of Western Sydney is on the rise, with UWS receiving the third-biggest jump in first preferences among NSW and ACT universities for 2007". In 2007, Theatre Nepean was suspended indefinitely, and the Australian Academy of Dramatic Art (AADA; now Australian Institute of Music - Dramatic Arts, or AIMDA) began
250-951: A cadetship at the Australian International Development Assistance Bureau (later AusAID) in Canberra , she returned to UNSW to complete an honours degree in History in 1991. She gained her PhD in Communication and Media at the University of Western Sydney in 2000, becoming the first Aboriginal student at the university to achieve this, which she considers her proudest achievement. While working on her doctorate, Heiss ran writing workshops in regional New South Wales, and also travelled to Canada and New Zealand to do research there, giving several guest lectures while abroad. Heiss
300-608: A commercial dairy until it closed in 2004. The Hawkesbury campus houses the Hawkesbury Forest Experiment. The experiment consists of twelve giant chambers with individual, living trees in controlled environments which will help predict what will happen to the Australian bush over the next century. This campus is also home to the forensic science degree and holds a crime scene house, various forensic lab equipment. The Centre for Plant and Food Science
350-563: A legislative basis in NSW state legislation with the passing of the University of Western Sydney Act 1997 , which also empowers the university to make by-laws affecting the operation of the university. A performing arts school had been established at UWS's predecessor, the Nepean College of Advanced Education , in 1980. There was a School of Visual and Performing Arts in the 1990s at UWS Nepean at Kingswood . The early incarnation of
400-469: A new Liberal government reversed this decision and controversially named it the University of Western Sydney. In 1989, teachers' colleges and Colleges of Advanced Education in Sydney's western suburbs were given university status under the University of Western Sydney Act 1988 . The 1990s saw the federation of three education providers: UWS Nepean , UWS Hawkesbury , and UWS Macarthur . The university has
450-503: A part-time position, at the same time working from home on her writing. She was Deputy-Director at Warawara Department of Indigenous Studies at Macquarie University from 2005 to 2006. She was Adjunct Professor at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning (now Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research ) at the University of Technology, Sydney , from 2012 to at least 2014. As of 2021 , Heiss
500-477: A partnership with the University of Technology Sydney which will see the two universities collaborate on postgraduate teaching and research. The two universities will also co-locate their business incubator programs at the new Bankstown City Campus. The new Bankstown City campus was officially opened in December 2022, and commenced teaching in early 2023. In 2009, Western Sydney University opened The College at
550-467: A percentage of Australia's GDP was in decline during the years of the Howard government . Federal funding policy was very influential at UWS. In 2000, after internal restructuring and cost-cutting, UWS Hawkesbury, UWS Macarthur, and UWS Nepean ceased to exist as autonomous components of the now defunct University of Western Sydney federation and became the new multi-campus University of Western Sydney. In
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#1732797773399600-813: A similar training program the following year, aiming at producing graduates who are all-round theatre-makers. Also in 2007, UWS had its first intake for Bachelor of Medicine / Bachelor of Surgery degree courses. In the same year, UWS was part of a consortium with Griffith University and the University of Melbourne to win funding for a National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies. In 2008, UWS announced new water and energy saving strategies, its Indigenous Advisory Board (announced on in August 2008 ) and endorsed prime minister Kevin Rudd 's Apology to Australia's Indigenous peoples . In 2011 and 2012, Professors Roy Tasker and James Arvanitakis respectively, were announced as
650-718: A teaching campus but is now administration only, and houses the Chancellor and Vice Chancellor's offices. It also has the Nepean Observatory built by Dr Graeme White (no longer with UWS) and members of the UWS Centre for Astronomy. Focus areas are split between Werrington South and Kingswood, with most engineering, computing, music and humanities subjects having classes in Kingswood and design having classes at Werrington South. Western Sydney University also hosts
700-598: A year or two, although retaining her unpaid role as an adjunct associate professor at the Badanami Centre for Indigenous Education at the university, a position she continued until at least 2011. Heiss was a consultant researcher and writer for the Barani Aboriginal history website, first published by the City of Sydney in 2001. In 2004 she was writer in residence at Macquarie University , Sydney,
750-581: Is Professor of Communications at the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, University of Queensland . In 1993, Heiss, along with writers Jared Thomas and Kerry Reed-Gilbert (the latter also a good friend ), participated in a writers' workshop at which they discussed the germ of an idea which would become the First Nations Australia Writers Network . From 1998 until 2004, and again from 2007, she
800-616: Is also home to the Bachelor of Policing program. The campus includes a modern cafeteria area, a new library, a full-size football oval, and the MARCS Institute. UWS's most well-known interpreting and translation course is taught at Bankstown campus. UWS trains and produces many NAATI accredited interpreters and translators. It was the original campus of the Macarthur Institute of Higher Education , which merged into
850-583: Is also located at this campus. Hawkesbury Earthcare Centre, an organic farming organisation with a seedbank is located at Hawkesbury Campus. The centre is affiliated with Henry Doubleday Research and the Alternative Technology Association. The Hawkesbury campus is next to Richmond TAFE. The nearest railway station is East Richmond The Penrith Campuses are made up of three areas in two Sydney suburbs; Kingswood, Werrington South and Werrington North. Kingswood has most of
900-423: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Anita Heiss Anita Marianne Heiss AM (born 1968) is an Aboriginal Australian author, poet, cultural activist and social commentator . She is an advocate for Indigenous Australian literature and literacy, through her writing for adults and children and her membership of boards and committees. Heiss
950-404: Is known as an author, poet, cultural activist and social commentator . Her work spans non-fiction , historical fiction , commercial women's fiction , poetry, social commentary and travel articles. After attaining her doctorate, Heiss taught an Introduction to Indigenous Australia course at the University of Western Sydney, but became disillusioned with academia and resigned her position after
1000-665: Is managed centrally. The Campbelltown Campus is located in the semi-rural Macarthur region in South Western Sydney. Together with the Bankstown campus, the Campbelltown campus was originally part of the Macarthur Institute of Higher Education, founded in 1984. The campus offers degrees (among many others) in medicine, health, sciences, nursing, law and business. Research centres are also located in
1050-792: Is primarily a single-discipline campus, offering business courses which are also taught at other Western Sydney University campuses. Nirimba campus is not far from Norwest Business Park . Located in the Nirimba Education Precinct in Nirimba Fields, the campus is the home of the Western Sydney University-owned UWSCollege. Western Sydney University shares the precinct with TAFE NSW- Western Sydney Institute , Nirimba College, St John Paul II Catholic College and Wyndham College . In recent times there has been much controversy over
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#17327977733991100-576: Is the peak jurisdiction for the university and has members consisting from Ministerial appointments, academic appointments, and an undergraduate and post-graduate student representative. The fourth Chancellor of the university, appointed in January 2023 is Jennifer Westacott , AO a former senior public servant and partner at KPMG. Westacott followed Professor Peter Shergold , AC who served as Chancellor from 2014 - 2022. In July 2024, Distinguished Professor George Williams , AO became
1150-816: The Racial Discrimination Act 1975 . Bolt had accused Heiss and other Aboriginal people of "choosing" their identity for personal benefit. In 2011 Heiss was a board member for the National Aboriginal Sporting Chance Academy, and an ambassador for Indigenous Literacy Day and for the Books in Homes program. She has been an advocate for the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence , a social enterprise in Sydney. In 2015 Heiss became an ambassador for
1200-534: The Bankstown CBD. Specialising in the social sciences, most of the students on campus are psychology, sociology, arts, linguistics, and education students. The campus also hosts the Bachelor of Policing degree and much of The MARCS Institute. The campus also included a modern cafeteria/eatery area as well as Oliver Brown. Students on campus specialise in the social sciences. Most are psychology , sociology , nursing , arts and linguistic students. The campus
1250-460: The Ultimo radio studios. The opening of WSU Surabaya on 9 November 2023, was attended by Indonesian Minister of Education, Culture, Research and Technology Nadiem Makarim , Australian Minister of Education Jason Clare , East Java Governor Khofifah Indar Parawansa , Western Sydney University Chancellor Jennifer Westacott , and Vice-Chancellor and President Barney Glover . The board of trustees
1300-487: The University of Western Sydney , is an Australian multi-campus public research university in the Greater Western region of Sydney , New South Wales , Australia. The university in its current form was founded in 1989 as a federated network university with an amalgamation between the Nepean College of Advanced Education and the Hawkesbury Agricultural College . The Macarthur Institute of Higher Education
1350-991: The Worawa Aboriginal College . Heiss was appointed to the State Library of Queensland board in 2017. As of 2021 she is not on the board, but a member of the Indigenous Advisory Group, an independent advisory group to the Library Board. Heiss is Ambassador of the GO Foundation (founded by Adam Goodes , Michael O'Loughlin and James Gallichan); and the Sydney Swans Australian rules football club. She also runs her own communications business, Curringa Communications. University of Western Sydney Western Sydney University , formerly
1400-625: The 2000s, UWS consolidated its schools of fine art, social science, humanities, and psychology. In this decade the university introduced its first nanotechnology and biotechnology undergraduate degrees. In 2003, UWS sponsored a Samuel Beckett symposium as part of the Sydney Festival . In 2004, UWS joined with Metro Screen and SLICE TV to successfully bid for Sydney's first permanent community television licence. Television Sydney , broadcasting as TVS, launched in February 2006 from
1450-733: The Hawkesbury campus was established as an agricultural college by the NSW Agricultural Society. At Parramatta, Western Sydney University owns and has renovated the Female Orphan School building, the foundation stone of which was laid by Governor Lachlan Macquarie in 1813. In 1987, the New South Wales Labor government planned to name the university Chifley University, after the former Labor prime minister, Ben Chifley . However, in 1989,
1500-646: The Prime Minister's Australian University Teacher of the Year. On 30 August 2015, the University of Western Sydney underwent a rebranding which resulted in a change in name to Western Sydney University. Many students criticised the re-branding, calling it a waste of money that stripped the university community of its established identity. Western Sydney University is a multi-campus institution. Each campus hosts an array of courses and different units can be completed across multiple campuses. The Parramatta Campus
1550-592: The Rydalmere campus at a site formerly used by quarantine authorities, CSIRO , Amdel Sugar, and the Biological and Chemical Research Institute laboratories. The university announced the establishment of a new campus in the Parramatta CBD as an extension of its existing Parramatta Campus in 2014. The Bankstown Campus which opened in 1989, was located at Milperra , about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from
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1600-472: The Werrington South campus. Ruth Cracknell was its founding patron (and patron of Theatre Nepean until her death in 2002 ), with John Bell patron, and 1987 graduate of Theatre Nepean, David Wenham , its ambassador in 2002. At some point, due to lack of funding, the school amalgamated its three-discipline program into a single course. Federal government funding of Australia's universities as
1650-576: The broadcast centre of Sydney's community television station TVS on Werrington South located in Building BD. As of 2015 TVS no longer broadcasts from this location due to the change of community licensing for stations ending in 2015. This change was made by then communications minister Malcolm Turnbull . Western Sydney University hosts the radio broadcast centre of ABC Local Radio , ABC Radio National , ABC Classic FM , Triple J , ABC NewsRadio , ABC Dig Music , ABC Jazz , & ABC Country from
1700-553: The campus's student services and facilities, computer rooms, classrooms and lecture theatres. It also has tennis courts, a gym, a bar (the Swamp Bar) and student accommodation. The Allen Library and Ward Library have now merged and are housed in a new building on the Kingswood campus. The new building (John Phillips Library) has been shortlisted for the 2015 World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards. Werrington South has fewer classrooms and lecture theatres. Werrington South also contains
1750-529: The campus. In 2007, the School of Medicine was established and began offering the Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree for the first time in the university's history. It is hoped that many of the School's graduates will practice in the Western Sydney region, in order to redress the shortage of healthcare professionals in the area. The on-campus student accommodation (called 'Gunydji')
1800-469: The faculty of communications, design and media. This is the campus for the Bachelor of Design (Visual Communications) degree. As of the end of 2016, these classes were no longer offered on this campus, can saw both the Design and Media arts subjects be relocated to Parramatta and the remaining classes be transferred to Kingswood. Majority of this site is now used for staff purposes. Werrington North used to be
1850-413: The neighbouring suburb of Quakers Hill . The campus has many historical buildings and two crossed air runways that ceased operation 1994. The Nirimba campus has student accommodation, air-conditioned lecture theatres and rooms built in the 1990s. The campus has views of the now closed Schofields Aerodrome . Campus numbers have dwindled since the university reduced the range of courses available. The campus
1900-609: The observatory was relocated to make way for a new residential housing estate to the south of the campus. It was reopened in a new location on 2 October 2014. The campus also provides the venue for the Macarthur Astronomy Forum . The Hawkesbury campus, also known as the Richmond campus, is located on a 1,300-hectare (5.0 sq mi) site in the Hawkesbury Valley in north-western Sydney, next to
1950-469: The old Blacktown campus of the university after protest about the divesting of property and resources from the site. The university's Nirimba campus is built on the site of HMAS Nirimba , a former naval aviation base, and is also known as the Nirimba Education Precinct, located in Nirimba Fields , about a 10-minute drive from Blacktown. The nearest railway station is Quakers Hill station in
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2050-547: The school comprised three specialisations, acting, dance, and theatremaking. The drama school at UWS became known as Theatre Nepean. In 1997, a student-led organisation, CentreStage, was created by second-year performance students as a fund-raising body to cover the costs of staging and promoting Theatre Nepean's graduation productions not only at the Playhouse at the Kingswood campus and the Centre for Contemporary Performance at
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2100-459: The status of this campus, at one point Western Sydney University was depicted in the media as abandoning the campus and the local area it served. There was even a council run protest at the closure called Save UWS Nirimba, where politicians and the university were petitioned to save the campus from closure, later it was decided rather than divesting they would set up The College. Western Sydney University has recently announced for its Blacktown campus
2150-534: The then-new university in 1989; however, as a result of widespread rebuilding by WSU, the oldest building on campus was opened in 1989. The building contains a plaque indicating that it was opened by the then treasurer and later Prime Minister Paul Keating . Western Sydney University has built a new vertical campus in the Bankstown CBD which opened in March 2023. The campus caters to 10,000 students and 700 staff with courses in education, psychology, business and IT. In December 2019, Western Sydney University announced
2200-461: The town of Richmond . Courses are offered in environmental health, forensic science, nursing, medical science, natural science (environmental, agricultural, horticultural), secondary school science teaching. Hawkesbury campus facilities include research labs, farmland, aquacultural (not operational) and equine facilities, residential halls and cottages, a conference centre, religious centres, a campus social hub called Stable Square, featuring cafeterias,
2250-722: Was born in Sydney in 1968, and is a member of the Wiradjuri nation of central New South Wales . Her mother, Elsie Williams , was born at Erambie Mission , Cowra in Wiradjuri country, while her father, Josef Heiss, was born in St Michael in the Lungau, Salzburg, Austria . Heiss was educated at St Clare's College, Waverley , then at the University of New South Wales , where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1989. After
2300-753: Was first established on the site of the Female Orphan School , which was founded in 1813. The site was formerly home to Rydalmere Psychiatric hospital and is located at the eastern end of Parramatta, near the border with the suburb of Rydalmere . It now houses the Whitlam Institute . The Rydalmere campus was established as a campus of UWS in 1998. It is the nearest campus to the Sydney CBD . Parramatta campus courses include occupation fields like Science, Business, and Law. It also hosts their Science courses in modern buildings near to
2350-695: Was incorporated in the university in 1989. In 2001, the University of Western Sydney was restructured as a single multi-campus university rather than as a federation. In 2015, the university underwent a rebranding which resulted in a change in name from the University of Western Sydney to Western Sydney University. It is a provider of undergraduate, postgraduate, and higher research degrees with campuses in Bankstown , Blacktown , Campbelltown , Hawkesbury , Liverpool , Parramatta , Penrith , and Surabaya . The university consists of an amalgamation of campuses, each with their own unique and individual history. In 1891,
2400-912: Was on the management committee of the Australian Society of Authors (ASA). From 2001 until 2003 she was Communications Adviser for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board of the Australia Council for the Arts . Heiss was chair of Gadigal/Koori Radio until September 2008. She was a witness in Eatock v Bolt , a 2011 decision of the Federal Court of Australia which held that two articles written by columnist and commentator Andrew Bolt and published in The Herald Sun newspaper had contravened section 18C , of
2450-406: Was originally a dual purpose library, though run and staffed by Western Sydney University it was also used as the TAFE library. Now a 'triple purpose' library is also caters to the students of The College. Both WSI TAFE and The College provide funding to Western Sydney University for this privilege, however as with all Western Sydney University libraries, purchasing, collection maintenance and staffing
2500-505: Was upgraded in 2010 with a maximum occupancy of 205. It is a complex of self-contained units that accommodate one to five tenants each. The campus is home to the UWS Rotary Observatory , designed by Dr. Ragbir Bhathal , consisting of two observing domes of 4.5m and 2.9m diameter respectively, opened on 15 July 2000. The observatory is principally utilised for Optical S.E.T.I. research but also hosts community astronomy nights, in collaboration with Macarthur Astronomical Society . In 2013
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