Ep 18 – SCA here to stay! The campaign to save Sydney College of the Arts
People's History of Australia - A podcast by People's History of Australia
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In mid-2016, the University of Sydney abruptly announced that it would be closing down its Sydney College of the Arts campus. Within the space of a few months, the internationally-renowned arts school, which had produced scores of famous graduates and offered an almost unique education in visual and fine arts, would be gone, and its students shunted off to another university. Fortunately, students at SCA had other ideas, and waged an epic mass campaign to keep the college open that saw huge meetings, strikes and a student takeover of SCA's administration building. In this episode we interview Kelton Muir, an activist at SCA who's written an honours thesis about the campaign. You can read Kelton's thesis at the link here - https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/25845 We're also hosting a launch party for this podcast! It's at 6.30pm on Wednesday 8 May at Sydney Trades Hall. Details here - https://www.facebook.com/events/785857270186369/
