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Varghese co-authored The Making of The Australian National University (Allen & Unwin, 1996, and ANU E Press 2009).
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Stephen Foster is a Professor in Research School of Humanities and the Arts at the Australian National University. He has taught Australian history at the University of New England, the University of Western Australia and Monash University. Foster co-authored The Making of The Australian National University (Allen & Unwin, 1996, and ANU E Press 2009). From 2000 to 2003 he served as a General Manager at the National Museum of Australia, before rejoining the ANU in 2003.
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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.
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Prepared by Greg Bell on 9 August 2010