A growing research culture will see Avondale graduate the largest number of higher degree by research and PhD students in the one class this year.
Scholars on show
Friday, December 7, 2018Giving on song
Friday, November 30, 2018An increase in donations and a large bequest is helping Avondale continue to invest in the student experience despite a $2 million budget deficit.
“Enough!”
Friday, November 16, 2018A speech of note set the tone for the commissioning service of Avondale Seminarian Dr Wendy Jackson. President Professor Ray Roennfeldt’s welcome expressed his frustration with the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist Church’s decision not to give regional divisions the autonomy to ordain women. This is what he said.
Doctor doctor now a pastor
Friday, November 16, 2018Colleagues of an Avondale seminarian have used subtle, disarmingly simple and courageously frank statements to affirm her journey from paediatric endocrinology to pastoral ministry.
Avondale is taking care of business
Wednesday, November 14, 2018Flexible classes and caring lecturers helped this Avondale alumnus develop a passion for a career in business.
A contribution worth celebrating and counting
Friday, November 2, 2018Avondale alumni have reflected on how science intersects, informs and even enhances their faith at a reunion that focused on the past and the future.
Finding my absurdist voice
Friday, April 8, 2016Avondale lecturer Lynnette Lounsbury discusses her writing process and relationships in the week in which she launched her latest novel, We Ate the Road Like Vultures.
Beat it
Thursday, April 7, 2016I loved the beat generation and the men in it. I loved how they shared themselves with each other and their readers, generously. But I always had, and still have, the sneaking and sinking suspicion there would have been no place for me in that world.
Offering Sabbath
Tuesday, April 5, 2016Sabbath is a spiritual discipline, particularly in a world dominated by screens, writes Nathan Brown. Loosening our grip on phones and devices, even for an hour, begins to break down their grasp on us and to reveal a more human kind of interaction and pace.
What we do with the Bible
Friday, April 1, 2016Bible reading is an important spiritual practice, but Nathan Brown wonders if quantity is everything and suggests a better way of measuring the Bible’s effect in our lives.
Solid foundation for faith
Thursday, March 31, 2016Grounds For Assurance and Hope is a testimony to Dr Bryan Ball’s success in validating the biblical basis of major Seventh-day Adventist beliefs. Pr Patrick Boyle writes in this review that in pursuing this line of scholarship, Ball has demonstrated beyond doubt or criticism that Adventism is not a North American sect.
Leadership landslide
Thursday, March 24, 2016Fewer teachers are willing to accept or even apply for leadership positions in Seventh-day Adventist schools, new research by Avondale Business School shows.
Hope for a better world
Wednesday, October 13, 2010Sharing a message of hope with others is alive and well among Avondale’s nursing students.
Quality assurance report of Avondale
Wednesday, October 13, 2010Avondale has received a positive audit report from the Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA), the Commonwealth body responsible for mandatory five-year quality audits of Australian higher education institutions.
Service motivates Avondale’s largest faculty
Wednesday, October 13, 2010Avondale’s Faculty of Education aspires to “a greater vision of world needs.”
New light on the Anzacs
Monday, September 13, 2010The Anzac story has acquired for many Australians a legendary and almost sacred mystique. Associate Professor Daniel Reynaud, Dean of Avondale’s Faculty of Arts, is researching an aspect of the Anzac legend that has previously received little attention—the Anzacs and religion, beginning with World War One. Daniel here outlines some of his findings.
They heard God’s call
Monday, September 13, 2010Two graduates and a current student describe how they came to study for the ministry at Avondale College.
Avondale opens new horizons
Monday, September 13, 2010Prize of Excellence recipient and 2009 graduate Charles Muirhead describes how he came to study at Avondale College.