“For a greater vision of world needs” is the best summary of our mission. We fulfil this by transforming lives through engaging and authentic Christ-centred learning and discovery. The impact: graduates and staff who serve for good. Here are some stories—and the values they reflect—that show this impact in 2023.
Faithful discovery
Values: Excellence, Spirituality, Wellbeing
Our academics, partnering with community and industry, produce 73 publications—including Making Tomorrow’s Church Today and about how The Lift Project improves mental health—providing practical, research-based solutions to social challenges.
Values: Excellence, Spirituality, Wellbeing
Three academics earn PhDs. One explores the changing mission of Seventh-day Adventist education. Another the factors influencing parents when choosing a faith-based school. The other evaluates the possibility of reversing type 2 diabetes.
Learning and teaching
Values: Excellence
Undergraduate students rank us top in Australia for quality of educational experience and quality of teaching practices.* Our Bachelor of Nursing course is number one across all focus areas. Our teacher education courses are number one in three.
Values: Excellence
Our lecturers host Chemistry Experiment Days so senior high school students can use science equipment you helped provide to solve a fictional murder mystery. They also provide CPD training in science at a conference for Adventist school teachers.
Values: Excellence, Wellbeing
Our students teach classes and tutor students as part of a hub arrangement with a local Adventist school. And our outdoor leadership students run week-long adventure education programs for four schools.
Values: Service
A new on-campus recycling initiative by students in an environmental issues class turns trash into cash for a local charity, supporting our commitment to sustainability.
Service learning
Values: Spirituality, Wellbeing, Service
A church in Fiji worships in its own building after our students renovate it. A service learning trip to Cambodia gives teachers-to-be cross-cultural professional experience. Another sees our students help chaplains at every Adventist school in Sydney.
Values: Spirituality, Service
An evangelistic series presented by our seminarians on Mauritius revitalises churches, returns young adults to in-person worship and results in at least 68 baptisms. A series in Melbourne for Samoans in Australia and their friends results in 31 baptisms.
Values: Wellbeing, Service
A collaboration with one of the largest op shops in Australia brings affordable counselling to Morisset and its surrounds, supporting our commitment to wellbeing and community health.
Faithful creativity
Values: Excellence, Spirituality, Wellbeing
Our conservatorium presents 10 concerts for members of our regional community, including an Easter musical as a community theatre collaboration with Avondale University Church, a gospel edition of Sing Praise and Handel’s oratorio Messiah.
Community recognition
Values: Excellence, Wellbeing, Service
Professor Brett Mitchell (Professor of Health Services Research and Nursing), inducted into the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame and receives a million dollar grant to ensure the clinical care you receive as a hospital patient is best practice.
Values: Excellence, Spirituality, Service
Professor Daniel Reynaud, appointed inaugural Visiting Historian at Anzac Memorial in Sydney’s Hyde Park.
Values: Excellence, Spirituality, Service
Dr Drene Somasundram (Chaplain and Lecturer), recognised with a Woman of the Year award from the Association of Adventist Women for her scholarship and her leadership in the Adventist Church.
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