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Vice-Chancellor's farewell celebrates her achievements

December 16, 2005

Coffey and MosesA farewell function yesterday for Professor Ingrid Moses, who is retiring after eight-and-a-half years as Vice-Chancellor of The University of New England, celebrated her achievements in strengthening the University, and ended with a toast to her “in fondness and admiration”.

In welcoming members of the University and Armidale communities to the cocktail party on the lawns of Booloominbah, the Deputy Chancellor, Mr James Harris, said Professor Moses’ “passion for education” had enabled UNE to become one of Australia’s “premier places of teaching and learning”. Mr Harris said her establishment of UNE Access Centres in country towns throughout northern NSW was one result of that passion.

Professor Peter Flood, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research and Development), speaking on behalf of the University staff, also praised Professor Moses’ commitment to teaching and learning, mentioning among other things her founding of the UNE Country Scholarship Scheme to assist students from rural communities. In addition, Professor Flood said, she had built on UNE’s strengths in research, “ensuring that this university is known as a teaching and research institution”.

Both Mr Harris and Professor Flood recognised the contribution of Professor Moses’ husband, Dr John Moses, to the University and Armidale communities. That contribution, Professor Flood said, had been not only to UNE’s School of Classics, History and Religion (where Dr Moses is an Adjunct Professor), but also to research and academic excellence more generally, and to the wider community.

“The University of New England is a very special place,” Professor Moses said in her response. “It is unique among Australian universities.” She said she had “great faith” in the future of UNE, and believed that it was “prepared to go ahead and meet the challenges”.

Professor Moses said the University had seen “a lot of organisational change” during her years as Vice-Chancellor, and praised the staff for “coming along with those changes”. She thanked staff in all sections of the University, beginning with those in the Vice-Chancellor’s Unit and senior management.

More than 200 people attended the cocktail party, and saw Professor Moses presented with farewell gifts including a gold brooch in the form of the University’s “flame” symbol, an album of photographs illustrating her eight-and-a-half years as Vice-Chancellor, and a bronze cast of the skull of Homo floresiensis, the extinct human species whose recent discovery brought international renown to UNE.

Professor Moses will retire from UNE early in January, and then take up the position of Chancellor of the University of Canberra.


The photograph displayed here, taken at the farewell event, shows Professor Moses (right) with the General Manager of The Armidale Express, Lorraine Coffey.

Posted by Jim Scanlan at December 16, 2005 03:00 PM