The University as an "imagined community" Gazing up at the dome in the Royal Exhibition Building during graduation, Melbourne Uni students may wonder what the words AUDE SAPERE mean. Any nearby professor (no doubt?) could tell them. And add that CARPE DIEM (like other Latin phrases seen on campus - POSTERA CRESCAM LAUDE, NON OMNIS…
Feel free to disagree on campus … as we all learn to “Enlighten Up”
Recent moves by university leaders to restrict campus protests and “combat racism” recall past debates on the uses and limits of free expression in Australian higher education. How do institutions meet campus safety and inclusion commitments without undermining the main aims of higher learning institutions - to seek, share and strengthen knowledge and understanding, as…
