历史

The University of Tasmania was officially opened on 1 January 1890, being founded by an Act of the Colony of Tasmania's parliament. Richard Deodatus Poulett Harris had long advocated the establishment of the University and became its first warden of the senate. The first degrees to graduates admitted ad eundem gradum and diplomas were awarded in June 1890. Referred to as one of the original sandstone universities, it was the fourth university to be established in Australia, and today maintains a strong reputation as a small to medium-sized university. The first campus location was the Queen's Domain in Hobart, but as enrolment numbers grew and study interests expanded, the new campus at Sandy Bay was developed in the early 1940s.

The university was reorganised in 1991 when it merged with the Tasmanian State Institute of Technology, which became the Newnham Campus. The centre at Burnie was opened in 1995.

Reforms to Higher Education by the Australian Government in 2004 lead most Australian universities to increase their HECS fees. UTAS remained the only Australian university not to do this, until July 2008 when Vice Chancellor Professor Daryl Le Grew announced that the university would increase HECS fees by as much as 25% from 2009. This increase affected all units except education, nursing and mathematics.

The university and TAFE Tasmania are the only remaining institutions of higher education in Tasmania. The Australian Maritime College (AMC) integrated with the university in 2008.

In December 2009, the Dalai Lama was to be offered an honorary doctorate by the University of Tasmania when he would be visiting that Australian state, but that offer was withdrawn.

Campuses

The University of Tasmania has three campuses.

• Hobart - the Hobart campus is set on 100 hectares of land in the suburb of Sandy Bay – a short distance from the centre of Hobart. Much of the upper campus is in natural bushland. Closer to the city centre are the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music, the Clinical School (and more recently the medical sciences building) and the Tasmanian School of Art. About 10,000 students are enrolled at the Hobart campus.

• Launceston - the Launceston campus is set on 50 hectares at Newnham overlooking the Tamar River, ten minutes from the centre of Launceston.Students studying Visual and Performing Arts and Architecture are located at the Inveresk campus. Over 5000 students are enrolled at both campuses.

• Cradle Coast - the Cradle Coast campus is located in the city of Burnie. This campus was established in 1995 as the North-West Study Centre.

The university also has a 334 hectare property located 20 km from the Hobart campus. The University Farm is set in the cropping and grape growing area of Cambridge located in the Coal River valley, serving the teaching and research needs of the School of Agricultural Science.

The University Library has seven branches across the three university campuses.

学术

University rankings (overall)
ARWU World	303-401
Times Higher Education	326

组织

The University of Tasmania is organised into six faculties: arts; business; education; health science; law; and science, engineering & technology. In addition to these faculties, the university has six theme areas through which multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary collaborations in research and research training, learning and teaching, and community engagement are fostered. The theme areas are: Antarctic and Marine Science; Community, Place and Change; Environment; Frontier Technologies; Population and Health; and Sustainable Primary Production.

The Faculty of Law has a number of senior academic staff in that faculty are leading researchers in the areas of medical and bio-technological law and ethics, Freedom of Information, legal ethics and equity. The Faculty, with the Tasmanian state government, also operates the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute.

The University currently holds the secretariat role of the International Antarctic Institute established in 2006 in partnership with 19 institutions in 12 countries.

A partnership between UTAS and the Cradle Coast Authority established the Institute for Regional Development at the Cradle Coast campus in 2005.

Rankings

The University of Tasmania has remained in the top 300 universities in the world according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, though it has slipped from 161st in 2004 to 319th in 2009. Domestically, the Good Universities Guide awarded the university four-stars for teaching quality and research, and ranked UTAS in the top 20% of Australian universities overall.

Based on the 2008 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), issues by Jiao Tong University, the University of Tasmania is within the top 14 Australian universities and within the 42nd-68th bracket in Asia-Pacific.

Student life

Until 2008, there were two separate student unions the Tasmania University Union (TUU) in Hobart and the Student Association (SA) in Launceston. Due to the abolition of compulsory student unionism in 2007, the SA and the TUU amalgamated into one Statewide Organisation representing all UTAS students. .

The President of the TUU is elected to represent all UTAS students on all campuses, and both Hobart and Launceston have their own Vice-President and Student Representative Councils. Both the TUU State President and TUU State Postgraduate sit on University Council, which is the governing body of the University of Tasmania. In 2008, a Students Complaints website "The UTAS Blog" (www.utas.ws) was created and received support from the TUU.

The TUU is responsible for the overseeing of all the university's many sports clubs and societies. Some of these include faculty-based societies, such as the Law Students, Medical Students and Engineering Students societies; societies related to various interests, such as TUMS (Tasmanian University Musical Society ), PLoT (Produces Lots of Theatre), The Anime Society; and various sporting clubs, including white water rafting, soccer, hockey, Touch Football , Australian Rules football, Rugby Union.

Student residences of the Hobart Campus include Christ College, Tasmania; St John Fisher College; University Apartments; Jane Franklin Hall; and Mount Nelson Villas. On the Launceston Campus, students may reside in Kerslake Hall, Leprena Hall, and Investigator Hall.

Alumni

Tasmania alumni include Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark; Peter Underwood, Governor of Tasmania; Philip Lewis Griffiths, Acting Chief Judge of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea; Scott Brennan, Gold Medalist at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics for rowing; Bill Mollison, "Father of Permaculture;" William Noel Benson, geologist; Hon Justice Peter Heerey, Federal Court Judge; Chief Justice Ewan Crawford, Chief Justice and Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania; Hannah Yeoh, member of the Selangor State Legislative Assembly; Charles Philip Haddon-Cave, former Financial Secretary of Hong Kong; Richard Flanagan, author and film director; Stephen Gumley, CEO of the Australian Defence Materiel Organisation; Neal Blewett, Australian politician; Simon Hollingsworth, Australian athlete; and Constantine Koukias, Australian composer.

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External Links

• University of Tasmania website