Professor Leisa Sargent , Senior Deputy Dean ( Academic ), UNSW Business School , and Professor Eileen Baldry , Deputy Vice-Chancellor , Equity Diversity & Inclusion
Principle 2
>
Girls in Business Camp : The 2021
Girls in Business Camp was designed for female students in years 10 , 11 or 12 who wanted to explore their future in business . The program is a collaboration between the Business School and our industry partners to equip young women with the skills , desire and ambition to study and work in the disciplines of risk and actuarial , technology and information systems , and banking and finance . Some 218 students registered for the program ; 110 high schools across NSW took part , including 20 Gateway schools and four Indigenous ( identified ) students .
> AGSM LGBTI Leadership Excellence Scholarship : The scholarship , believed to be the first of its kind in the Asia Pacific region , enables outstanding community and business leaders in the LGBTI community to undertake the full-time MBA . In 2021 three scholarships were awarded to LGBTIQ + students for the 2022 cohort .
> Low SES students : The Business School target is 15 % low SES students in the UG domestic student intake by 2025 . As of July 2021 , the low-SES access for the Business School was 9 %.
> COVID-19 Student Relief Hardship Fund : Provision of funding to almost 750 Business School students in 2020 .
> Belonging and Transition ( BAT ) Program : Piloted in 2020 and advertised to first-year UG students that selfidentified as coming from the following equity groups : low SES backgrounds , the LGBTQI + community , rural and remote backgrounds , students living with a disability , being culturally and linguistically diverse ( CALD ) and of Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander descent . Some 15 students enrolled in BAT in the Business program in 2020 .
> UNSW Business School Textbook Access Scheme : A collaboration between UNSW Business School , UNSW Student Support , and the UNSW Bookshop . The purpose of the scheme is to support the inclusion and success of students from equity groups enrolled in the Business School . All commencing equity and low SES students , and undergraduate Indigenous students in the Business School were invited to participate in the scheme in 2021 . Almost 480 students were eligible for the scheme . Students will receive a pro-rated amount with a cap of $ 250 for 2021 towards the purchase of course texts .
> Gateway Admissions Pathway Program (
GAPP ): From 2021 , this UNSW program aims to address the underrepresentation of students from low socio-economic backgrounds , which may include rural , regional and remote , and Indigenous students . The program is UNSW ’ s primary tool to address its strategic goal of increasing our low-SES access rate to 15 % by 2025 . The program aims to deliver a more diversified domestic student undergraduate cohort , to increase the educational capacity and preparedness for university of young people who are under-represented in higher education , and to improve equitable access more broadly to higher education for under-represented students . In 2021 , the Business School has 72 GAPP enrolments , the majority being low SES ( 46 %) and first in family ( 36 %).
19