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JCH and Philanthropy: please help the College fund new teaching spaces

As the University of Melbourne moves as the ‘Melbourne model’ has drawn constraints of
to ensure its place as Australia’s leading increasing numbers of students to the our site with its
University through a major philanthropic University from low socio-economic small footprint.
campaign, the College seeks your support backgrounds, we have found the demand
to fulfil our distinctive mission within the upon us for financial support to be greater Two significant
wider University – to be a leader, both in than ever. In addition, the College has faced donations
terms of the quality of the pastoral care we increasing demand for pastoral support – one from
offer students through teaching, mentoring among a generation for whom the statistics Dr Margaret
and a close and supportive staff-student – and the realities of College life – show Henderson
relationship, and also to provide a space us that fully 20 per cent of young people and one Dr Margaret Henderson
in which intellectual breadth and depth is face serious issues of wellbeing and mental from the late with Mrs Donna Davies
nurtured and reinforced through a large health, requiring care, skill but also ongoing Dame Elisabeth Murdoch – and a range
and lively academic programme of tutorials, resources. Attracting students as it does of smaller donations from alumni have
mentoring and speakers. partly on the basis of our size, culture provided a significant starting point for a
and reputation for pastoral and academic new building, envisaged to be built on the
The College has worked hard not just excellence, the College strains to keep up Ormond side on the current site of our
to reflect upon the challenges and with ongoing demand for support. rather dilapidated bicycle and maintenance
opportunities brought about by the shed. It is our hope that future major
‘Melbourne Model’, but also to be a leader As our academic programme has increased donations will enable this project to be
in terms of our shared culture and practices. from a handful of weekly tutorials to the completed as quickly as possible, so that
There is more to be done, and we need point where we offer over 50 tutorials students and staff are able to continue
your help to continue to build upon the a week, every available space is now tutorials in spaces befitting our role as a
achievements of the last decade. required for teaching purposes. Indeed the leading academic College.
Senior Common Room, Dining Hall, and
We seek to fulfil our mission to attract oftentimes staff offices are now given over The Janet Clarke Hall Advancement
a wide range of students to the College to tutorials throughout the week, suggesting Committee’s role is to promote and assist
regardless of family background and the urgent need to create new, additional the College through the philanthropy of
financial circumstance. In recent years, teaching spaces within the genuine the College’s alumni and friends.

For a confidential discussion about donating to the College or making a bequest (or, if more convenient, to arrange a home visit)
please contact
Jenny Ross, Chair of the Advancement Committee Alternatively you can contact the Principal, Dr Damian Powell
Phone & Fax 9827 1741 | Mobile 0438 054 792 Phone 9349 7100 | Fax 9349 7104
email advancement@jch.unimelb.edu.au email principal@jch.unimelb.edu.au
All gifts to the College are fully tax deductible to the donor and are very warmly welcomed.

First in Family Scholarships

From little things big things do sometimes grow. The College is
delighted that the efforts of our Cranbourne Artist-in-Residence
Alice Pung to support a student without any family history of
tertiary education in 2012 has led to a wonderful outcome for
future ‘first in family’ rural women wishing to study at JCH.
In the course of 2013 the representative of a newly-founded philanthropic
trust contacted the Principal, noting the College’s interest in building
its capacity for ‘first in family’ rural and regional women. Wishing to
remain anonymous, the trustees were able to offer a ‘half’ scholarship to
a resident student for 2013, and in 2014 will offer two ‘half’ scholarships
to worthy applicants seeking a place at JCH. It is their hope that they
will be able to offer three half scholarships in 2015, allowing returning
students to receive ongoing support for the duration of their degree.

The inaugural recipient, Charlotte Clarkson, who has contributed enormously to the College Charlotte Clarkson (right) and resident
including as Library Assistant, has written of her thanks for the opportunity provided tutor Fiona Cadorel
through the scholarship: ‘I have loved being at College which has helped me to meet
new people and have new experiences that I otherwise wouldn’t have had. The College
has been so supportive of me and I am very thankful for all the help I have received. I am
definitely glad that I chose Janet Clarke Hall as my first preference. I feel very blessed to
have been gifted with the scholarships that I received and they certainly helped to ease
my financial burden.’

For Charlotte, and for those others like her who will benefit from the ‘First in Family
Scholarships’, the College is deeply grateful for a most serendipitous, generous gift.
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