Community Programs & University Involvement

Mar 27

Community Programs & University Involvement

There’s no doubt that there is a currently an enrollment down turn as of late. Even major University campuses in Australia have noticed the numbers of students slipping.

Universities that are feeling it the most are small and regional campuses. For instance Rockingham’s Murdoch University Campus use to have an estimated 1,300 students at its peak, now the campus is dwindling with an embarrassing 500 students.

Although through no fault of their own the current enrollment statistics of Universities in Australia are an extreme reminder of higher education falling out of the grasp of a majority of people.

Murdoch University is one of the few Universities that have world recognised entrance courses for those people who don’t normally get a chance to go to University. The program which I graduated from, Uni-Focus, is tailored for the Rockingham & Mandurah community and serves as an excellent component of the small and regional campus .

However with lower enrolments these enterance courses are becoming more and more scarce, as enrollments drop so do the universities revenue to be bale to run programs such as Uni-Focus.

We at CLiCK Computer Recycling are in a very unique position. We are a community program located on a small and regional campus who are facing the realisation of low enrollments and the reality that in the current climate University will be scaling down drastically. CLiCK has the advantage of introducing individuals to the University campus, getting people on campus to pick up computers gives them exposure to opportunities that they may not of thought about, and may not have relised that they had available to them.

Small and regional campuses need to break free of the shackles of major campuses and relise that their main source of survival is in the community in which they reside. Engaging the community with programs which are specific to the community. With current circumstances small & regional campuses can not rely on the major campuses for their sustainability, lower enrollments, means less revenue which in turn means scaling down of smaller campuses.

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