About the University of Melbourne

The Vision Statement informing the University of Melbourne agenda is that of a university world class in the staff and students it attracts, the research and scholarship it undertakes, the academic standards it upholds and the graduates it produces. The vision is for a university committed to its Australian stakeholders yet emphatically international in character and focus shaped by a rich Western institutional heritage yet thoroughly at home intellectually and culturally in Asia.

Underpinning all its aspirations and plans, the University of Melbourne is committed to:

1. Maintaining the highest international standards of ethics and quality in research, teaching and administration;
2. Advancing the intellectual, cultural, economic and social welfare of the Melbourne, Victorian and Australian communities it serves, and recognising the particular needs and aspirations of Indigenous Australians;
3. Working with other international universities to extend educational opportunity and enrich intellectual discourse, educational quality and research activity around the world;
4. Advocating and upholding fundamental human and civil rights as the only just, sustainable basis for a humane civilisation, and challenging all staff and students to understand and accept their moral responsibilities as educated, informed, tolerant citizens of their own societies and of the wider international community;
5. Defending the academic freedom of all staff and students to engage in critical inquiry, intellectual discourse and public controversy without fear or favour;
6. Sustaining a diverse, harmonious scholarly community committed to equity and merit as the fundamental principles encouraging and assisting staff and students to realise their full potential;
7. Maintaining a safe, rewarding, environmentally sustainable learning and working environment for the University community.

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