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advancement office looks to the future The University of Queensland has entered a new era in community and corporate engagement by welcoming Clare Pullar as its first Pro Vice-Chancellor (Advancement). By Cameron Pegg Ms Pullar joined the University in September after Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Greenfield created the position to build UQ’s long-term philanthropic vision. She brings to UQ 20 years of experience in the higher education sector including leadership roles at Melbourne Business School and the University of Melbourne’s Trinity College. “Clare’s advocacy across two decades has seen educational institutions and their communities directly benefit in numerous ways, and we want to generate the same sense of possibility and achievement at UQ,” Professor Greenfield said. “There’s many ways our alumni and community partners can become involved with the future of the University and it’s important that we start inviting people to make this happen” “We’re at a stage in UQ’s history where we’re launching into a second century which is going to be very different from the first,” she said. “This century is about being a university for a globalised world and tackling some of the very big issues requiring some very big ideas.” New UQ projects such as the Global Change Institute provided exciting opportunities to confront these challenges via collaboration, she said. Ms Pullar said the University had benefited from major acts of philanthropy during its history, including a £55,000 donation by the Mayne family to establish the St Lucia campus in 1926. More recently, groups such as Atlantic Philanthropies had set the agenda for fundraising by matching personal contributions with those from government and university sources. Ms Pullar said it was now time for others to use their skills, networks and resources to help build UQ for future generations. She said Australian universities could learn much from their Canadian counterparts, which have restructured their business models in the past 15 years to include philanthropy as a viable funding source. “We’ve seen them transform their higher education sector and the way that’s happened is that they have turned their institutions into asking institutions. You’ve got to be bold and ask for help and ask for partnerships,” she said. Ms Pullar said building relationships was not a “one-way street” however, and UQ needed to better inform graduates about the opportunities on offer. “I think the biggest opportunity for outreach to our alumni is the Centenary. During 2010 there are going to be many ways that we will engage with our community and invite their participation and involvement,” she said. “There will be opportunities for people to not just connect with part of the University that they’re most familiar with, but to engage with some of the cutting edge thinking that has emerged since they were students here.” // www.uq.edu.au/centenary During her time at Trinity, Ms Pullar successfully led a major capital raising campaign which included new scholarships to admit the college’s first Indigenous students. She said such projects illustrated the transformative nature of giving, with the college able to see its past, present and future through the prism of helping others. In recognition of her achievements, Ms Pullar has received both the Trevor Wigney Award and the Peter Crook Award for outstanding service in Advancement in Australasian education. Born in Scotland, Ms Pullar attended school in Victoria before studying at La Trobe University. After completing a Bachelor of Arts majoring in philosophy and history and a Diploma of Education she commenced what would be her first fundraising challenge – helping a school in Goulburn out of debt to build new classrooms and facilities. The ten-year project involved working closely with the local farming community to secure support during tough financial times. Ms Pullar said she had been attracted to UQ by the Vice-Chancellor’s vision and the commitment of the senior executive to make Advancement a priority in the long term. jeremy patten 8 UQ – GRADUATE CONTACT // centenary edition 2010
online success Graduate Contact is reaching a growing global audience after the successful launch of the magazine’s own website. The website, which includes all content from the hard copy version plus online extras such as podcasts and videos, went live in June to coincide with the Winter 2009 edition. Since then, more than 14,000 page views have been recorded from readers in 95 different countries and territories. Among these are Iran, Palestine and Suriname – the smallest country in South America. Australian users are recording the majority of hits, with those from the USA, UK, Singapore and Malaysia rounding out the top five. Graduate Contact editor Cameron Pegg said he was pleased to see the diversity of UQ’s alumni community reflected in the uptake of the website. “We hoped this resource would appeal to graduates and readers around the world and this is proving to be the case,” Mr Pegg said. “Creating a custom-built website has been the biggest change in the magazine’s 20-year history, and we are glad to see alumni getting behind the online version and making the most of its features.” Graduate Contact online stories are categorised with “tags” for easy searching, and are also open to comments. Readers can email articles of interest to others with the click of a button, and share them via social networking sites such as Facebook. “We are very proud of the magazine, and the website means we can engage with a larger and more diverse audience,” Mr Pegg said. “We want the website to evolve with our readership, so I encourage alumni to log on and let us know their thoughts via the survey linked on the homepage.” All graduates with known e-mail addresses also receive an e-newsletter version of the magazine at the time of printing. Following this special Centenary edition, the Summer 2010 Graduate Contact will be published in November as usual. ONLINE // To receive the Graduate Contact e- newsletter, update your profile at www.alumni. uq.edu.au or www.uq.edu.au/graduatecontact “Creating a custom-built website has been the biggest change in the magazine’s 20-year history, and we are glad to see alumni getting behind the online version and making the most of its features” leonard chan Survey feedback UQ – GRADUATE CONTACT // centenary edition 9
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