| Massey University Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa |
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| Motto | Floreat scientia (Let knowledge flourish) |
| Established | 1927 |
| Type | Public |
| Chancellor | Dr Russell Ballard[1] |
| Vice-Chancellor | Hon. Steve Maharey |
| Students | 35,509[2] |
| Location | Palmerston North, Auckland (Albany), Wellington, New Zealand |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | www.massey.ac.nz |
Massey University (Māori: 'Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa') is one of New Zealand's largest universities with approximately 36,000 students,[2] 20,000 of whom are extramural students.[3]
The University has campuses in Palmerston North (sites at Turitea and Hokowhitu), Wellington (in the suburb of Mount Cook) and Auckland (at Albany), with the largest in terms of student numbers being the Turitea site. Massey offers most of its degrees extramurally within New Zealand and internationally. It has the nation's largest business college. Research is undertaken on all three campuses.
Massey University is the only university in New Zealand offering degrees in aviation, dispute resolution, veterinary medicine and nanoscience. Having been accredited by the American Veterinary Medical Association, Massey's veterinary school now has the distinction of having its degree recognised not only by New Zealand, but also the United States, Australia, Canada, and Britain, as well as most other countries in the world. This is an honour shared by only a handful of other institutions.
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From 2008 Annual Report[2]
The New Zealand Agricultural College Act of 1926 established the sixth college of the University of New Zealand (UNZ) at Turitea, across the Manawatu River from Palmerston North City. It drew from the agriculture departments of Victoria University College in Wellington and Auckland University College.
In 1927 the college was renamed Massey Agricultural College after former New Zealand Prime Minister William Fergusson Massey who died in 1925 and had been vigorous in land reform efforts. The Massey Agricultural College Committee first met on 1 February 1927 and the Batchelar property, near the present Turitea site, was purchased that June. The college was officially opened for tuition on 20 March 1928 by O. J. Hawkin.
With the demise of the UNZ in 1961, it became Massey College, part of Victoria University of Wellington (VUW). In 1960 a branch of VUW was established in Palmerston North to teach students by distance education, known as extramural study. In 1963 this branch amalgamated with Massey College to form Massey University College of Manawatu, and on 25 September, the Massey University Act 1963 made it an independent university as Massey University of Manawatu, with its present name being adopted in 1966.
These developments, coinciding with a programme of curricular expansion initiated in the late 1950s, led to the establishment of many new departments and to a substantial increase in the number of teaching, research and technical staff. First-year science courses were introduced in 1958. Students working in agricultural degrees had formerly undertaken these prerequisite studies at one of the four colleges of the University of New Zealand. The Faculty of Technology was established in 1961 and the Faculty of Veterinary Science a year later. In 1965 the Faculty of Science was founded, where work continues to be concentrated on the biological sciences. In the same year General Studies was organised into two new Faculties, Humanities and Social Sciences. These were consolidated on the main site in 1968 and the Hokowhitu property was made available for the development of the Palmerston North Teachers' College, which was initially established in 1956 at another location. To coordinate the expanding graduate and research activities of the University, a School of Graduate Studies was created in 1969. Business Studies courses, directed by a Board of Studies, were first offered in 1971, and in 1972 joint teacher education and cooperation between the University and Palmerston North Teachers' College was formalised by the creation of a School of Education. Business Studies and Education are now both Colleges.
A School of Aviation was established in 1990. In the early 1990s, further schools were formed in Applied and International Economics and Mathematical and Information Sciences. In 1994 the latter became the Faculty of Information and Mathematical Sciences. For much of its work the University has national responsibilities; for instance, in agriculture, veterinary and extramural education. For other purposes, such as extension work and school accreditation, the University region is defined to the north by a line running from Waitara to Wairoa and to the south by a line running from the Waikawa River through to Mount Bruce. As the scope of its activities has broadened, the University has maintained since 1963 an extensive building and development programme designed to preserve as much as possible the semi-rural character of the campus; additional farm land has also been purchased during this period.
In 1996, Massey University merged with the Palmerston North College of Education and in 1997 the first College was established: the College of Education comprising the University Faculty and the former Palmerston North College of Education. Later in 1997 the following Colleges were established: the College of Business, comprising the former Faculty of Business Studies, the School of Aviation and the School of Applied and International Economics; the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, comprising the former Faculties of Humanities and Social Sciences; the College of Sciences, comprising the former Faculties of Science, Technology, Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Information and Mathematical Sciences and Veterinary Science. In 1999 the College of Design, Fine Arts and Music was formed as the result of the acquisition of the Wellington Polytechnic. In 2005 the New Zealand School of Music was formed by collaboration between Massey University and Victoria University. The College of Design, Fine Arts and Music was renamed College of Creative Arts.
Massey University's governing body is the University Council. Council is a representative stakeholder body, members include lay, academic, alumni and student members and it is responsible for overseeing the management and control of the affairs, concerns and property of the University. The Council Chair and the ceremonial head of the University is the Chancellor, elected by Council for a one year term from within its ranks.
The Senior Leadership Team, led by the Vice-Chancellor, represent all aspects of the University’s operation, include Pro-Vice-Chancellor’s (academic leadership and management of the five colleges: Business, Creative Arts, Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Sciences), Regional Chief Executives (regional presence and estate management of the three regional campuses: Albany, Manawatu and Wellington), and Assistant Vice-Chancellor’s (covering seven central services groupings: Academic, Research, People and Organisational Development, Mäori and Pasifi ka, University Registrar, External Relations, and Finance, Information Technology, Strategy, Commercial).
Massey University has campuses in the Manawatu at Palmerston North (sites at Turitea and Hokowhitu), Wellington (in the suburb of Mt Cook) and Auckland at Albany. In addition, Massey offers most of its degrees extramurally within New Zealand and internationally. It has the nation's largest business college. Research is undertaken on all three campuses.
Massey University is the only university in New Zealand offering degrees in aviation, dispute resolution, and veterinary medicine. Having been accredited by the American Veterinary Medical Association, Massey veterinary school now has the distinction of having its degree recognised not only by New Zealand, but also the United States, Australia, Canada, and Britain, as well as most other countries in the world. This is an honour shared by only a handful of other institutions.
New Zealand's first satellite, KiwiSAT is currently being designed and built by New Zealand Radio Amateurs with the support of Massey, especially in space environment testing.
The Manawatu campus consists of two locations at Turitea and Hokowhitu. The campus has around 9,000 students.[4]
The Turitea site houses the main administrative units of Massey University as well as the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the College of Sciences, and the College of Business. The Turitea site is home to the only Vet School in New Zealand. The Hokowhitu site is home to the College of Education.
In 1993 the Auckland campus in Albany was created and has grown rapidly in a fast developing part of Auckland's North Shore City. The Albany campus is the only campus to house departments from all five of the University's Colleges. Science and Business are the two largest colleges on the campus with the College of Science housing the Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences, and the New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study solely on the campus. Around 7,000 students are enrolled at Albany.[5]
In 1999 the Wellington campus was created through the acquisition of the Wellington Polytechnic. Part of Massey Wellington sits inside the New Zealand Dominion Museum building. The Wellington campus primarily specializes in Design (College of Creative Arts) and Music (New Zealand School of Music), and has around 4,000 students.[6]
Extramural study first began in 1960 and Massey University is New Zealand's largest and pre-eminent provider of distance education.[7] Massey is known for its flexible learning and innovative delivery options and this tradition continues in the use of elearning.
The University is currently embarking on a major project to further digitise its distance delivery and has recently adopted Moodle (branded as Stream) as its new Learning Management System (LMS).[8][9] Massey was also the lead developer of the Mahara eportfolio system and is committed to using new technologies to support life-long learning.
The University, today, consists of five colleges:
The College of Business at Massey University was founded in 1972 as the School of Business, which later became the Faculty of Business Studies in 1977. The College of Business has existed in its current form since 1997. [1]
Schools and Units
Schools
Established in 1996 after the merger between Palmerston North College of Education and Massey University Faculty of Education. [4]
Schools and Centre
Schools & Institutes
Notable faculty, past or present include:
The Massey University Students' Associations Federation (MUSAF) represents the student bodies at Massey University. MUSAF has three representatives to the Massey University's governing body, the Massey University Council.
Massey University School of Aviation is an educational institute which forms part of the College of Business. It provides flight instruction together with a university degree to prospective airplane pilots (i.e. fixed wing professional pilots) as well as a degree in aviation management to those students who want to work in other areas of aviation. The School of Aviation also caters for postgraduate education with a postgraduate diploma, masters and PhD.
On 9 February 2006, two students at the School - Brandon James Gedge, 20, from Tauranga, and Dae Jin Hwang, 27, from West Auckland - both flying Piper Warrior II (PA-28-161) trainer aircraft, registrations ZK-MBD and ZK-MBL, were killed in a mid-air collision over Opiki, 18 km southwest of Palmerston North, at 9:47 am.[10] The aircraft crashed on to farm land, spreading debris over a 500 square metre area. The CAA found the accident's cause was neither pilot seeing the other aircraft due to blind spots in both aircraft, with one climbing directly towards the sun.[11] The Square Trust Rescue Helicopter was forced to take evasive action several minutes before the collision, when one of the accident aircraft turned into its path.[12] As a result of the accident, special procedures were set up in the Southern Training Area airspace south of Palmerston North.[13]
OWENS, J.M.R. Campus Beyond the Walls: The First 25 Years of Massey University's Extramural Programme Palmerston North, Dunmore Press Ltd, 1985. (ISBN 0864690479) [7]
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