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LA TROBE UNIVERSITY ACT 2009 - PREAMBLE

Preamble

La Trobe University was created as Victoria's third University by the La Trobe University Act 1964 . It came into being with the enrolment of 500 students in 1967.

La Trobe's founding mission was, and remains, to serve the community of Victoria for the purposes of higher education, for the education, economic, social and cultural benefit of Victorians and for wider Australian and international communities.

From inception, La Trobe has been particularly focussed on providing access to quality higher education to those from disadvantaged backgrounds and has become an internationally recognised leader in this field.

Innovation in teaching and research was, and remains, central to its mission.

From its beginnings as a single campus, metropolitan University in Bundoora, La Trobe has expanded its presence across Victoria, through a merger with the Wodonga Institute of Tertiary Education in 1991 and through the establishment in 1991 of the La Trobe University College of Northern Victoria, incorporating the Bendigo College of Advanced Education. La Trobe University has campuses in Albury-Wodonga, Bendigo, Mildura, Shepparton and Beechworth.

La Trobe attracts students from across the world for the quality of its teaching and learning.

The University has achieved international standing for its research and scholarship in a wide variety of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, health sciences and technology.

Through this re-enactment of its foundation legislation, La Trobe University reaffirms its commitment to the pursuit of excellence and innovation, providing for the needs of the Victorian, Australian and international communities.

The Parliament of Victoria therefore enacts:



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