STEPS - Library - Central Queensland University

Part One: The history of STEPS
Between 1986 and 1989, the Institute added more campuses to its portfolio.
The Mackay campus opened for lectures in 1987, and the Bundaberg
Institute began its operations in 1988. The following year, the Emerald
campus would also open for operation. 33
Below is one of the first photographs taken of the Mackay College of
Technical and Further Education.
Mackay branch campus (from left) Steve Mathieson and David Haussmann. 34
Spreading to Gladstone
In 1989, the Institute was again successful in securing a government grant
to continue providing STEPS as a much needed pathway into tertiary
education for local adults who had been marginalised from formal
education.
With three years behind them, Greg Harper and his colleagues decided that
this would be a good time to extend the STEPS offering to the Gladstone
campus. This would enable the Institute to widen the geographical scope of
the program, thereby enabling more people to benefit. By this stage, the
Gladstone campus had been operating for 11 years. 35
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