The vice chancellor of Canberra’s Australian National University, Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt, will vacate the prestigious position at the end of the year.
Professor Brian Schmidt will depart the role of ANU vice chancellor at the end of this year.Schmidt will stay on staff at the Canberra-based university, resuming his previous role of professor of astronomy.The vice chancellor of Canberra’s Australian National University, Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt, has announced he will step down from the prestigious position at the end of the year.
Schmidt, a graduate of Harvard University, said in a video message that he would return to his role as a professor of astronomy, extending his 28-year-long position on the university’s staff.“I am so proud to have been trusted to lead ANU,” Schmidt, who led the institution through the turbulent pandemic years, said.“Great universities are not great by accident. They need the constant energy and effort of a huge number of people.
In a speech to the university on Thursday, he said, “having arrived as an agent of change” now was the time to leave before “before I become the status quo”.“Brian won the Nobel for showing that the universe was expanding at an accelerating rate,” Leigh wrote on Twitter. “In eight years as ANU VC, he showed what an expansive vision of higher education could look like .”Schmidt has held an unusually high profile for a vice chancellor, with his remarks regularly making news.
He spent the past few years fighting a war against ATARs – the number school-leavers are given that governs their ability to get into university. Under his leadership, ANU has broadened its admission criteria beyond that single number.
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