Bulletin

Issue: October 2004

Colleges

New at Glenn and Menzies

La Trobe’s Menzies College is also renovating – upgrading its student leadership facilities and building a new training and resource centre, sponsored by Challenge Commercial Interiors.

Earlier this year the Head of College, Dr Michael Shortland, launched a new training program for college student leaders in collaboration with Goulburn Ovens Institute of TAFE. He said this was the only nationally-recognised Certificate IV program in student leadership in Australia. The program is for college seniors in areas such as effective communication, team-building, problem solving, assertiveness and counselling.

Ten Menzies’ residents this year traveled to Cambodia, where they worked in a college-sponsored orphanage, helped to establish a craft shop and taught English in local schools.

Glenn College – La Trobe’s oldest residential college and first building on campus – recently refurbished its dining hall, restaurant, court yard and residential areas. With extensive mentoring and student leadership programs, Glenn residents achieve an exceptionally high academic success rate, said College Head, Dr Johann Le Roux.

The college also helped set up, and continues to provide a home for, the ‘La Trobe Life Skills Program’. This ground-breaking training program offers day-programs for young people with disabilities and special needs, boosting their educational and social development. Glenn College also helps ‘Children of Phoenix’, a support group for disadvantaged and at-risk children in Australia.

All colleges have strong outreach programs, locally and overseas. Apart from Glenn’s assistance to Children of Phoenix, and Menzies’ orphanage in Cambodia, Chisholm supports a centre for street kids in India.

Between them, the three colleges accommodate about 1,100 students, with some 40 per cent from overseas. More than 40 different nationalities are represented.

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