After three significant years in senior executive leadership, Professor Kerri-Lee Krause will soon conclude her tenure as vice-chancellor and president of Avondale University.
VC calls time on tenure
Wednesday, April 10, 2024“I want to give back”
Friday, March 15, 2024Meet Edward Ligaiviu, a classroom leader in the making who sees teaching not just as a career but as a calling.
Music for everyone
Friday, March 15, 2024Two musicals—a world premiere and a Broadway hit—and a pianist who toured as vocalist with a Grammy-winning group highlight our 2024 concert series.
Family feel
Friday, March 1, 2024The offer of free accommodation and a larger investment in fostering the on-campus Avondale experience has helped fill our student residences. So, we asked the new managers Sean Berkeley, Kahlia Harders and Peta Tams why.
Nicotine addiction: training for healthcare professionals
Tuesday, January 23, 2024A training course offered by Avondale University for healthcare professionals coincides with new laws that will take the puff out of the market for vapes.
Mission ready
Tuesday, January 16, 2024A new program equipping, empowering and deploying participants for mission-minded discipleship is now offering places for 2024 after graduating its first cohort this past year.
Who are our pastors?
Friday, March 15, 2024Seventh-day Adventist pastors in the South Pacific are disciple makers who lead people to Jesus using an institutional rather than missional model of ministry, a new survey shows.
Future church study
Thursday, February 29, 2024Despite personal, organisational and demographic challenges, youth ministers are deeply committed to leading young people into a relationship with God, a new Avondale study shows.
Stay young study
Wednesday, October 18, 2023We need your help to discover what causes a decrease in a molecule linked to better health and longer life.
New role for Anzac expert
Friday, September 15, 2023An Avondale academic is the inaugural Visiting Historian at the Anzac Memorial in Sydney’s Hyde Park.
A different path
Friday, April 14, 2023A Seventh-day Adventist response to World War I that differed from most churches in Australia preserved church and state loyalty, research by an Avondale professor shows.
Pneumonia prevention now subject of new study
Wednesday, March 15, 2023A nursing academic at Avondale has received another million dollar grant to ensure the clinical care you receive as a hospital patient is best practice.
Nursing: I just knew
Thursday, March 28, 2024Benjamin Rippingale had a busy 2023, completing Year 12 and a traineeship at a public hospital. To focus on his studies, he registered for early entry to our nursing course. “It gave me peace of mind,” he says. And a story to tell.
Storyteller
Wednesday, March 27, 2024Why this alumna wants to be part of your Easter plans.
“I want to give back”
Friday, March 15, 2024Meet Edward Ligaiviu, a classroom leader in the making who sees teaching not just as a career but as a calling.
Family feel
Friday, March 1, 2024The offer of free accommodation and a larger investment in fostering the on-campus Avondale experience has helped fill our student residences. So, we asked the new managers Sean Berkeley, Kahlia Harders and Peta Tams why.
Quality teacher to be
Tuesday, February 13, 2024Zoe Clair wants to see her children—and others—succeed in the classroom. So, she is changing careers and completing Australia’s number one postgraduate education course for skills development and teaching quality.
An Australia Day honour
Friday, January 26, 2024An internationally-recognised Avondale academic appears in this year’s Australia Day Honours List “for significant service to nursing, particularly infection prevention and control.”
New alumni walk
Friday, February 16, 2024A bulk order of pavers has led to the refurbishment and completion—after almost 25 years—of a walk honouring alumni of Avondale.
The first students
Friday, August 11, 2023Take a step back to the late 1800s for an understanding of what a typical day looked like for Avondale’s first students. In a word, or four: they had it tough.
A hybrid Homecoming
Thursday, September 1, 2022Former students and staff members returned to Avondale in person and online for the university’s first hybrid Homecoming (August 26-27).
What to do at Homecoming 2022
Thursday, August 4, 2022The program for our annual alumni gathering is now online. Use it to plan your weekend.
Prayer book links family to Florence
Thursday, May 12, 2022A prayer book gifted to the founder of modern nursing and loaned to a heritage centre on our Lake Macquarie campus reminds us of faith’s sustaining power.
A cultural revolution
Wednesday, November 17, 2021Alumnus Laurie Draper recalls the challenges and beauty of romance at Avondale during the 1950’s.