Margaret Gardner
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Professor Margaret Gardner AO is the Vice-Chancellor and President of RMIT University in Melbourne. Professor Margaret Gardner was appointed to her current positions in April 2005.
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[edit] Education
Gardner earned a degree in Economics (with first class honours)] and a PhD from the University of Sydney. As an academic, her area of specialization was in the field of industrial relations. As a Fulbright postdoctoral fellow, she spent time at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cornell University, and the University of California, Berkeley.
[edit] University leadership
Her earliest executive position was at Griffith University, where she was Pro Vice-Chancellor. At the University of Queensland, she served as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic).
Professor Gardner has been a member of a number of boards, including in the arts and education sector. She is currently a member of the Board of the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education and of the Business Industry and Higher Education Collaboration Council. She is also Chair of RMIT International University and RMIT Vietnam Holdings, and a number of the Boards of RMIT International and RMIT Training.
[edit] Works
Professor Gardner has also written and co-authored several books including Employment Relations: Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management in Australia (2nd Edition), and Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations in the Public Sector, as well as a wide range of journal articles, conference papers and government reports.
Gardner has served as Chair of two major Queensland government taskforces. In 2002 she authored The Review of Pathways Articulation Through the Post-Compulsory Years of School to Further Education Training and Labour Market Participation. In 1998 she wrote the Review on Queensland Industrial Relations Legislation.
[edit] Honors
Professor Gardner was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day Awards in February 2007, for service to tertiary education, particularly in the areas of university governance and gender equity; and to industrial relations in Queensland.
[edit] Personal
Margaret Gardner's husband, Glyn Davis, is the University of Melbourne's vice-chancellor.
[edit] Controversies
In 2008, Gardner and the RMIT Administration were criticised for their decision to turn RMIT's Muslim Prayer Room into another multi-faith centre. This caused the RMIT Islamic Society to call on hundreds of their Muslim students to protest by holding Friday prayers in Bowen Street, the University's main thoroughfare. Some activist organisations labeled the University's decision Islamophobic and racist. RMIT was also attacked in 2007 for attempting to shut down the campus Disability Liaison Unit.[1]
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