Andrea Hull (VCA Director) Resigns
Please read the below email sent to staff late last week, the information has been sourced from the allstaff email list. This will be a great loss to the VCA.
Dear All
As many of you know, my contract as Director and Dean concludes in March. After 14 wonderful, productive years here, I have advised the Vice Chancellor I will not be seeking a renewal and will be moving on to new adventures.I have leave accumulated and will step down from formal duties on 9th September. There will be an international recruitment process to identify the next Director and Dean and Deputy Dean Su Baker will be Acting Director from September 10th, until a new Director/Dean takes up the position. Read more
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A response to Andrea Hull - VCA Student Union
A post from the VCA Student Union…
On Fri 22 May, VCA Head, Andrea Hull sent an email to students containing a number of outright lies. Here is the VCA Student Union’s response:
Andrea Hull claims: “There has been no move to implement the Melbourne Model at the VCA at this time. Of course, how the Melbourne Model might fit in to the VCA to the benefit of students has been a subject of discussion between the VCA and the University of Melbourne over the last year.”
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A post from the VCA Student Union…
The VCA has only been a faculty of the University of Melbourne since the beginning of 2007 and already the little grubs in the university’s administration are pawing over VCA programs looking for the most suitable courses to cut
On the 15th of May University of Melbourne Provost Peter McPhee announced plans for a new “restructure” of courses at the VCA. The restructure will be effective as of 2009. The new faculty labelled “The Faculty of the VCA and Music” will see the 6 schools of the VCA reduced down to 3 and represents the introduction of the Melbourne Model at the college. The schools of Dance, Drama and Production will be merged into a single school of Performing Arts, The School of Music will be merged with the Faculty of Music at the Parkville campus of Melbourne Uni and the School of Film and television will be incorporated into the School of Art. Undergraduate studies in Film and Television (currently the only undergraduate degree in Film and TV in Australasia) will be axed. Read more
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Please find below an email from Peter McPhee to the staff mailing list sharing the announcement of the new Faculty of the VCA and Music. Discuss this post by clicking here.
Dear colleagues,
We write to share with you the announcement (below) of the new
Faculty of the VCA and Music.Peter McPhee
ProvostPhilippa Pattison
President
Academic BoardNEW FACULTY OF VCA AND MUSIC TO SET ‘GOLD STANDARD’ IN ARTS
EDUCATIONA ‘gold standard’ in higher education and training in the arts will
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be the hallmark of a proposed new Faculty of the VCA and Music at
the University of Melbourne. Read more
Notes from VCA Student Union “Emergency Meeting”
Notes from VCASU Emergency Meeting
Monday the 28th of April 1pm, CFI Tutorial Room, VCAAzlan McClennan, the General Secretary of the VCA Student Union introduced the agenda and spoke about the article from The Age that has been posted around campus on yellow posters. He spoke about the VCA funding cut of 35% in 2004, and explained that the VCA has never really recovered from it. He suggested this as a major reason the VCA have now joined Melbourne University. Read more
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