Oral history transcripts and interviews
- AU ANUA 44
- Series
- 1982 - 1996
These are recordings and transcripts of interviews with ANU academic and general staff for the 60th anniversary and other history projects.
Foster, Stephen Glynn
Oral history transcripts and interviews
These are recordings and transcripts of interviews with ANU academic and general staff for the 60th anniversary and other history projects.
Foster, Stephen Glynn
The Making of The Australian National University: 1946-1996
Stephen Foster and Margaret Varghese trace the ANU’s history from its wartime origins to its fiftieth anniversary in 1996, featuring many of the prominent Australians who contributed to its making: ‘Nugget’ Coombs, Howard Florey, Mark Oliphant, W.K. Hancock, Douglas Copland, John Crawford, Peter Karmel; and others who stood out in particular fields, such as J.C.Eccles, Arthur Birch, Manning Clark, Russell Mathews, Ernest Titterton, Beryl Rawson, John Mulvaney, John Passmore and Frank Fenner.
The Making of The Australian National University explores many themes in higher education during the last half century, including academic freedom, relations between universities and politicians, recruitment practices, the ‘two cultures’ of science and the humanities, collegial versus managerial structures, equality of opportunity, student politics, academics and architecture and universities in the marketplace.
Varghese, Margaret M