Incoming academic structure

With our sights set firmly on student success, life changing research and exceptional education, Flinders University is adopting a new academic organisational structure, from 1 July 2017, to ensure it achieves its bold ambitions.

Reflecting the aims of our strategic plan “Making a Difference – The 2025 Agenda” to be internationally recognised for our excellence, innovation and enterprise, Flinders is replacing its four Faculties and fourteen Schools with a single tier of six Colleges.

The result of an extensive consultation process where we worked collaboratively to address the needs of academic and professional staff and our students, our simplified structure supports a high performance culture and positions Flinders to be agile and progressive in an era of disruptive change.  

The many benefits include a reduction in “red-tape” for academic staff, freeing them up to focus more on research and teaching, closer alignment of professional staff with the Colleges to better meet the needs of academics and students, reduced duplication of support services, greater collaboration between disciplines, and enhanced academic access to executive decision-making.