Born in 1915, Aboriginal activist Shirley Andrews studied science at the University of Melbourne in the 1930s before going onto work for the Council of Scientific Research, the precursor of the CSIRO.

She was a staunch political activist and member of the Communist Party – this caused some tensions and led to her resignation in 1951. A year later she became a senior biochemist at the Royal Park Psychiatric Hospital and remained there until her retirement in 1977. During this time, she was an executive member of the Council for Aboriginal Rights, where she campaigned for Indigenous people to be recognised in the Australia Constitution via the 1967 referendum.

Andrews was also a practitioner and historian of Australian folk dance. She was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in 1994 for her contributions to this field. Andrews died in 2001.

For more information on Andrews, Campus Review would like to point our readers to her Wikipedia page. But, unfortunately, it doesn’t exist. In fact, according to Wikipedia’s own statistics, only 16 per cent of the online encyclopaedia’s articles are about women.

Michael Evans is the managing director of Dell Boomi, a cloud-based integration company that brings together the student and faculty data developed and stored in various apps and programs and across desktop and mobile devices. Evans talks about how integration can benefit a university environment, what the future of student experiences looks like and whether the advent of new technology will lead to extensive job losses in the sector.

A new study from Western Sydney University has found that Australian eucalyptus trees can’t store as much carbon as previously thought, throwing into question the commonly held assumption that planting more trees will help manage climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions.

The cost of going to university has risen dramatically and is set to inflate even further, new research from the Australian Scholarships Group shows.

Converting rustbelts into brain belts, that’s how Dutch economist and author Antoine van Agtmael describes the process of transitioning a nation’s economy from an uncompetitive manufacturing or resources base, to one that thrives off the products developed by a smart populace with smart ideas.

Federal Labor has flagged further reforms to increase flexibility in the demand-driven system of university funding if it comes to power at the next election.

“Agendas have displaced analysis,” Universities Australia chair professor Barney Glover says in a speech at the National Press Club.

Richard James is the director of the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne.

The Centre has released a new essay collection titled Visions for Australian Tertiary Education, coedited by James with colleagues Sarah French and Paula Kelly.

“If you're a straight person you don't actually have to come out and tell a person that you're straight.”

But if you’re gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, it’s a different story.

That’s how Mark Smith, executive officer to the University of Sydney Senate and a proudly gay member of staff, summarises why USYD gets involved in Sydney’s Mardi Gras parade each year, and why the university has made a 22-minute video of LGBTI staff and students.

Research from South Australia’s universities has found that 51 per cent of school leaver students struggle to make decision on what to study at university.