Tagged with GUMURRII Student Support Unit

Eight Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander undergraduates will be the focus tomorrow(March 5) at a function to acknowledge their completion of an inaugural and innovative research program through Griffith Sciences. The Indigenous Summer Research Fellowship Program was launched in December and provided the students with six to eight-week research placements under academic supervision. Senior Learning […]

The Griffith community walks for reconciliation.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students make up just one percent of the country's university population, but a tertiary preparation program is designed to turn those figures around.

Griffith University’s GUMURRII Student Support Unit has been honoured at the 2013 Australian Awards for University Teaching. Announced in Canberra, GUMURRII received the award for Programs that Enhance Learning in the Widening Participation category. Federal Minister for Education, The Honourable Christopher Pyne MP, said: “The GUMURRII Student Support Unit has been recognised as making an […]

Aunty Marion Close is a Quandamooka woman, one of the People of the Sand and Sea, and although her home is best known as North Stradbroke Island, she loves it as Minjerriba. A proudrepresentative of a people whose long history flows through Moreton Bay,that doesn’t mean Aunty Marion is averse to the modern. Recently, after […]

Students participating in the annual Doomadgee State School Exchange were the toast of an official welcome hosted today (October 29) by Griffith University’s GUMURRII Student Support Unit. The 13 Year Six and Year Seven children from the remote northwest Queensland community of Doomadgee arrived in Brisbane on Monday to begin the 2013 Show Me Your […]

58 high school students from Tweed Heads, Murwillumbah, Redland Bay and Surat Basin descended on the Gold Coast campus last week as part of the Titans 4 Tomorrow program. The students received a half hour guided tour of the Gold Coast campus on Tuesday 24 September by the staff from the GUMURRII Student Support Unit […]