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Manufacturing student organisations: a study with particular reference to Melbourne University, 1880 to 1914

Foley, Christopher Andrew ( 1995)

The foundation of a University poses an interesting problem: will the new institution simply be an imitation of an existing University model, or will it involve an adaptation of different models. The resolution of this problem will in turn determine many aspects of the University's structure and operations, including that of the particular forms of student organisations that will emerge. Universities that are based on faculty-structures tend to have a tradition of faculty-based student organisations, while collegiate-based universities tend to possess college-based student organisations. Phenomena that raise interesting questions about Universities that possess both faculties and colleges. In the case of Melbourne University during the period of 1880 to 1914, the basic structure of the University (faculties and colleges) was emerging, as was a tradition of faculty and college based student organisations. In addition, other types of organisations also emerged which drew their members from different parts of the University. Most notably were the early student 'unions' which explicitly sought to bring all students of the University together, and to create a sense of student solidarity based on one's university, rather than one's faculty or college, membership.