Stop the Closure of RMIT Bundoora East Campus

This Petition has been started in an effort to stop the closure of RMIT University's Bundoora East Campus at the end of 2006.

The decision to close the Campus was reached by the Executive Committee of the CS&IT School on Wednesday, 20th July 2005.

On Thursday, 21 July 2005 the following email was sent to students:

"Dear Bundoora Campus Students

Yesterday, the Executive Committee of the CS&IT School made a decision to stop all intake of students into our programs at Bundoora East Campus with the aim of vacating all of our offices at Bundoora by the end of 2006.

This decision was not taken lightly and the Executive Committee realises this decision will have an adverse impact on many of you. The main reason that has led to this decision is that the School has been operating below critical mass at the Bundoora East Campus for some years now. We do not see any major changes occurring in the near future to alter this. The School is therefore unable to provide you with the range of services we consider so vital throughout the duration of your studies. To continue indefinitely with a lack of critical mass is not desirable nor conducive to a quality teaching and learning experience.

Thus, the Executive has decided to concentrate the School's energies into strengthening its teaching and learning activities at the City Campus. Also, yesterday the Teaching Committee of CS&IT decided to continue the C&IT program, but transfer it to the City campus, i.e. the first year courses for this program will be offered at the City Campus in 2006, while second and third year courses will continue at Bundoora for 2006.

Regards,
Professor Heiko Schroder
Head of School
School of Computer Science & IT
RMIT University"