Project Description
2023 College Birthday
The Women’s College celebrated its 109th Birthday on Friday 24 March.
The celebrations began with an address by Head of College & CEO Flo Kearney, who launched our 2024 110th Anniversary by showcasing some of our plans for next year’s milestone event.
As one of Queensland’s leading university residential Colleges for 255 women, 52 Associates (non-residential members), and more than 6,000 alumnae, we acknowledged these remarkable women who have been a part of our history, and were very privileged to have the following eminent Vice-Chancellors participate in a Q&A about tertiary education:
- Professor Carolyn Evans, Vice-Chancellor and President of Griffith University,
- Professor Margaret Sheil AO, Vice-Chancellor and President, QUT; and
- Professor Deborah Terry AO, Vice-Chancellor and President, UQ
The Vice-Chancellors shared their reflections on university leadership challenges, the student experience then & now, the big issues confronting universities in Australia currently and in the future and the collaboration across the three universities.
There are 38 universities listed on the University’s Australia website. Of those 28 have male Vice Chancellors and 10 have female Vice-Chancellors. Five of the 10 female Vice-Chancellors are in Queensland.
We thank Professors Evans, Sheil and Terry for their participation, and we also thank College Council President, Emeritus Professor Carol Dickenson AM, for facilitating the Q&A.
Guests then enjoyed a High Tea in the Chislehurst Room, which included an In Conversation with Joanna Jenkins (alumna 1982 – 1984) about her newly published novel, How To Kill A Client, facilitated by Olivia Williamson (alumna 1999 – 2003).
