ON THE MOVE
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MQ CHANCELLOR
SET TO RETIRE
Michael Egan has
announced he will
be retiring from the
Macquarie University
chancellorship in
February 2019.
The former NSW state Labor treasurer
came to the university as a council member
in 2006 and leaves as Macquarie’s longest
serving chancellor, with 11 years in the role.
“The university owes our chancellor a
debt of great gratitude. Mr Egan has led
the university council with his unique and
endearing style through times of great
change within the university and through
a period of sustained growth,” said vice-
chancellor S. Bruce Dowton.
BRUNGS STILL
ON BOARD
Capital letters create alternative forms for
each character in the Roman alphabet. They
help to mark the particular functions of
certain words: those that start a sentence
or identify proper nouns for persons (e.g.
Quentin Bryce) or places (e.g. Australia), and
proper names and titles, such as Governor-
General of Australia. In each case only the
first letter of the word is capitalised, not the
rest. But the pressure in the marketplace
for new branding has prompted the use
of capital letters in the middle of words,
especially where two are blended into one
proper name, as in TermFinder. Technically
this is the use of medial caps, mid-caps,
intercaps, incaps or 'camel case', as it’s also
called, with the middle capital likened to the
hump or humps of the camel. It depends
then on whether you’re thinking of the
Bactrian camel (with two humps) or the one
better known in Australian history – strictly
speaking the dromedary camel (with only
one). A variant of camel case is lower camel
case, where the first part of the proper
name is left uncapitalised for a particular
reason. The new official name of Swaziland
is eSwatini, so as to distance the new
government from the past. The American
poet Edward Estlin Cummings liked to write
his name as e.e. cummings, but for poetic
rather than political reasons.
Written by Emeritus Professor Pam
Peters, researcher with Macquarie
University’s Centre for Language
Sciences.
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UTS has announced
that its current
vice-chancellor,
Attila Brungs, will take
up a second term,
seeing him through until the end of 2024.
A former Rhodes scholar, Brungs also
held the role of general manager, science
investment, strategy and performance,
at CSIRO, prior to his appointment as
deputy vice-chancellor (research) at UTS
in September 2009.
On behalf of the UTS council, chancellor
Catherine Livingstone said Brungs had
done an outstanding job in leading and
managing the university.
“We are very supportive of his vision,
leadership and ability to inspire the university
community to work together collegially to
create and achieve our ambitious goals.”
PUBLIC SERVANT
TO FED UNI
Former senior public
servant Terry Moran
has been appointed
chancellor of Federation
University Australia.
Moran served in the Rudd/Gillard
government as the secretary of the
Department of the Prime Minister and
Cabinet and comes to the role with
previous educational experience with
the Office of the State Training Board
in Victoria.
He was the first CEO of the Australian
National Training Authority in Brisbane and
became Queensland’s director-general of
education in August 1998.
Moran, who resides in Melbourne,
began his three-year term as chancellor
on 13 October.
WEST TO EAST FOR
JACKSON PULVER
The University
of Sydney has
confirmed Professor
Lisa Jackson Pulver
as its new deputy
vice-chancellor, Indigenous strategy
and services.
An accomplished adviser, researcher
and educator – particularly in the areas of
Aboriginal health, data collection, analysis
and management and strategy – Jackson
Pulver is currently pro vice-chancellor,
engagement; pro vice-chancellor,
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Leadership; and provost, Parramatta South
Campus, at Western Sydney University.
“The University of Sydney gave me the
opportunity to enter tertiary education;
I was the first in my family to do so,”
she said. "I’m honoured to be able to
return in a very different capacity and give
back to the university’s staff and students
in this way.”
NEW VC FOR
GRIFFITH
Professor Carolyn
Evans has been
announced as the next
VC and president of
Griffith University.
Evans, who holds a doctorate from
Oxford University where she studied
as a Rhodes Scholar and was also the
recipient of a prestigious Fulbright Senior
Scholarship, will take up her post in
February 2019.
Evans joins Griffith from the University of
Melbourne, and her appointment comes
after current vice-chancellor and president
Professor Ian O’Connor announced he
was leaving after overseeing 14 years of
growth at the university.
UNISA REINFORCED
BY IRONS
Higher educational
professional Richard
Irons will join the
University of South
Australia in November
as its new director of student and academic
services. Irons, currently academic registrar
at the University of Derby in the UK, brings
a wealth of experience to the role after
serving more than 10 years in the student
services sector.
“UniSA’s student-focused culture, its
ambitious approach and forward-thinking
strategy are very impressive, and I am
delighted to be joining the university at
such an exciting time,” Irons said.