North Ryde. Uni foundation launched

The Macquarie University Foundation has been officially launched paving the way for a new era of philanthropy to support education for the benefit of the wider community. The role of the foundation board is to implement a strategy for campus fundraising built on developing strong relationships with alumni and supporters, and effectively communicating what the University stands for and hopes to achieve.More broadly, its aim is to create new revenue streams at the university to help realise Macquarie's vision to achieve excellence in teaching and research, and support equity-based scholarships. The foundation's honorary chair, Dr Maurice Newman, the former Chancellor of Macquarie and chair of the Australian Securities Exchange, and current chair of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.