Massey University (M?ori: Te Kunenga ki P?rehuroa) is a university based in ??lm?rst?n N?rth, N?w Z??l?nd, with significant campuses in ?lb?ny and Wellington. Massey University has approximately 35,000 students, 17,000 of whom are extramural or distance-learning students, making it New Zealand's second largest university when not counting international students. Research is undertaken on all three campuses, and more than 3,000 international students from over 100 countries study at the university.
Massey University is the only university in New Zealand offering degrees in aviation, dispute resolution, veterinary medicine, and nanoscience. Massey's veterinary school is accredited by the American Veterinary Medical Association and is recognised in the United States, Australia, Canada, and Britain. Its agriculture programme is the highest-ranked in New Zealand, and 19th in Quacquarelli Symonds' (QS) world university subject rankings. Massey's Bachelor of Aviation (Air Transport Pilot) is an internationally recognised and accredited qualification, is the first non-engineering degree to be recognised by the Royal Aeronautical Society (1998), and has ISO9001-2000 accreditation.
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Key facts
From 2008 Annual Report:
- $374 million operating revenue
- $57 million external research and contract funding
- 3127 staff (full-time Equivalent)
- 33,905 students (19,432 EFTS)
- 27251 undergraduate students (15,070 EFTS)
- 7212 postgraduate students (3,428 EFTS)
- 1046 doctorate students (934 EFTS)
- 112 doctoral completions
- 3384 M?ori students
- 895 Pasifika students
- 2447 students with disabilities
- 2 National Centres of Research Excellence (and numerous University-based Research Centres)
- Hosts the National Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence
- The University has almost 100 formal academic arrangements with overseas institutions
- Massey is the 10th largest user of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in New Zealand
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History
The New Zealand Agricultural College Act of 1926 established the sixth college of the University of New Zealand (UNZ) at Turitea, across the Manawatu River from Palmerston North City. It drew from the agriculture departments of Victoria University College in Wellington and Auckland University College.
In 1927 the college was renamed Massey Agricultural College after former New Zealand Prime Minister William Fergusson Massey who died in 1925 and had been vigorous in land reform efforts. The Massey Agricultural College Committee first met on 1 February 1927 and the Batchelar property, near the present Turitea site, was purchased that June. The college was officially opened for tuition on 20 March 1928 by O. J. Hawkin. Women were admitted from 1932, with Enid Hills being the first.
With the demise of the UNZ in 1961, it became Massey College, part of Victoria University of Wellington (VUW). In 1960 a branch of VUW was established in Palmerston North to teach students by distance education, known as extramural study. In 1963 this branch amalgamated with Massey College to form Massey University College of Manawatu, and on 25 September, the Massey University Act 1963 made it an independent university as Massey University of Manawatu, with its present name being adopted in 1966.
Inaugurated in 1993, classes began at Massey's Albany campus in 1994.
In December 2010 Massey announced that the Wellington campus would close its School of Engineering and Advanced Technology the next month. Students were offered places at either the Albany or Manawatu campuses with compensation, but those who could not make the move and chose to undertake their degree elsewhere were given no compensation, and only a few papers were able to be cross-credited.
The College of Health was launched in February 2013 with three broad goals: promoting health and wellbeing, disease and injury prevention and protecting people and communities from environmental risks to health.
In December 2016, the Chancellor of the University, Chris Kelly, caused outrage by making several comments in a rural newspaper regarding the gender of those in the veterinarian profession. While outlining changes that were being made to the structure of the University's veterinarian and agricultural degrees, Kelly said that more women passed the first year of the veterinarian degree "because women mature earlier than men, work hard and pass. Whereas men find out about booze and all sorts of crazy things during their first year... That's fine, but the problem is one woman graduate is equivalent to two-fifths of a full-time equivalent vet throughout her life because she gets married and has a family, which is normal." These remarks caused widespread outrage, with Kelly's apology via Twitter and Facebook doing little to calm the situation. Kelly resigned as Chancellor on 14 December 2016, and was replaced promptly by then Pro Chancellor Michael Ahie.
Campuses
Massey University has campuses in the Manawatu at Palmerston North, at Wellington (in the suburb of Mt Cook) and on Auckland's North Shore at Albany. In addition, Massey offers most of its degrees extramurally within New Zealand and internationally. It has the nation's largest business college. Research is undertaken on all three campuses.
New Zealand's first satellite, KiwiSAT is currently being designed and built by New Zealand Radio Amateurs with the support of Massey, especially in space environment testing.
Manawatu Campus
The Manawatu campus in Palmerston North is based at the Turitea site. The campus has around 9,000 students.
The Turitea site houses the main administrative units of Massey University as well as the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the College of Sciences, and the Business School. The Turitea site is home to the only Veterinary School in New Zealand. In 2013 the College of Education became the Institute of Education and is part of College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
In 2016, Massey University sold its Palmerston North-based Hokowhitu Campus.
Albany Campus
Since 1993 the Auckland campus in Albany has grown rapidly in a fast developing part of Auckland's North Shore City. Science and Business are the two largest colleges on the campus with the College of Science housing the New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study solely on the campus. Around 7,000 students are enrolled at Albany. This campus has grown since then and an on-campus accommodation facility opened in semester one 2015.
Wellington Campus
In 1999 the Wellington campus was created through the acquisition of the Wellington Polytechnic. Part of Massey Wellington sits inside the New Zealand Dominion Museum building. The Wellington campus primarily specializes in Design (College of Creative Arts), Nursing, and Communication and Journalism. It has over 4,000 students.
Extramural
Extramural study first began in 1960 and Massey University is New Zealand's largest and pre-eminent provider of distance education. Massey is known for its flexible learning and innovative delivery options and this tradition continues in the use of elearning.
The University is currently embarking on a major project to further digitise its distance delivery and has recently adopted Moodle (branded as Stream) as its new Learning Management System (LMS).
Governance
Massey Agricultural College, then Massey College, and then Massey University were governed by a board of governors, and now by the University Council.
Chairmen of the Board of Governors
- The Hon. Sir George Fowlds, (1927-1934)
- Sir William Perry (1934-1935)
- Sir Thomas Hunter, (1936-1938)
- Arthur Morton (1938-1942)
- G. Grey Campbell (1943)
- Alan Candy, (1944-1946)
- Augustus Edward Mansford, (1947)
- Walter Verran Dyer, (1947-1959)
- Edward Durning "Ned" Holt, (1960-1962)
Chancellors
- John Clark Andrews (1963-1966)
- The Hon. Blair Tennent, (1967-1970)
- The Hon. Les Gandar, (1970-1975)
- Arthur Ward, (1976-1980)
- Lindsay Russell Wallace, (1981-1984)
- Douglas Easton (1985-1990)
- Hon. Justice Hugh Williams (1991-1998)
- Morva Olwyn Croxson, (1999-2002)
- Nigel Gould, (2003-2008)
- Russell Ballard, (2009-2013)
- Chris Kelly (2013-2016)
- Michael Ahie, BBS (Hons) (2016-present)
Notable alumni
Politicians
- Paula Bennett (BA, social policy)
- Ashraf Choudhary (PhD, agronomy)
- Brian Connell (history and geography)
- Wyatt Creech (agriculture)
- Peter Dunne (business administration)
- Nathan Guy (agriculture)
- Pete Hodgson (BVSc, veterinary science)
- Steven Joyce (BSc, zoology)
- John Luxton (BAgSci and Dip. Ag Science)
- Steve Maharey (MA, sociology)
- Tony Ryall (BBS and Dip. Business Studies)
- Nicky Wagner (MBA)
- Ian Shearer
- Sir Lockwood Smith (BAgSci and MAgSci)
Sportspeople
- Jo Aleh - world champion and Olympic champion sailor
- Nathan Cohen - world champion and Olympic champion rower
- Rico Gear (Rugby union)
- Scott Talbot-Cameron - swimmer
- Farah Palmer (Black Ferns)
- Graham Henry (All Blacks)
- Paul Hitchcock (Black Caps)
- Nehe Milner-Skudder (All Blacks)
- Gemma Flynn (Black Sticks)
- Sally Johnston (sport shooter)
Others
- Kay Cohen - fashion designer
- Robert Holmes à Court - businessman (BAgSci, forestry)
- Alan Kirton - agricultural scientist (BAgrSc and MAgSc)
- Phil Lamason - WWII RNZAF pilot
- Kyle Lockwood - architectural designer, designer of the Silver fern flag (DipDArch and DipArchTech)
- Ross McEwan - banker, CEO of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group
- Simon Moutter - engineer, businessman (BSc, physics)
- Craig Norgate - businessman
- Sir Alan Stewart - founding vice-chancellor of Massey
- Richard Taylor - special effects technician
- Stephen Tindall - businessman
- Saffronn Te Ratana - artist
Notable faculty
Notable faculty, past or present, include:
- Kingsley Baird
- Paul Callaghan
- Brian Carpenter
- Kerry Chamberlain
- Ashraf Choudhary
- Shane Cotton
- John Dunmore
- Craig Harrison
- Joel Hayward
- John Stuart Yeates
- Hugh Kawharu
- Steve Maharey
- Stuart McCutcheon - (University of Auckland) Vice-Chancellor
- Caroline Miller
- David Officer
- W. H. Oliver
- Farah Palmer
- David Parry
- Geoffrey Sylvester Peren
- Peter Schwerdtfeger
- Lockwood Smith
- David Stenhouse
- Marilyn Waring
Massey University Students' Associations
The Massey University Students' Association Federation (MUSAF) represents the student bodies at Massey University. It includes the Albany Students' Association (ASA), Massey [Manawatu] Studnets Association (MUSA), Massey at Wellington Students' Association (MAWSA), Manawatahi, Te Waka o Ng? ?konga M?ori, and the Massey Extramural Students' Society (EXMSS). Each individual students' association organises activities and support for its members, somtimes organising student events, publicising student issues, administering student facilities and assisting affiliated student clubs and societies.
The Albany Students' Association, incorporated in 1998, represents students at Albany campus. It is the only student association in Auckland with full membership of the New Zealand Union of Students' Associations. The ASA operates Evolution Bar and runs annual events like the first semester Orientation festival, second semester Winterfest, Woman's fest, Political Awareness Day and Boys Will Be Boys event. It previously published the fortnightly Satellite Magazine, which was awarded second for best small publication in the 2006 ASPA awards. In 2012 the magazine was replaced with a cross campus magazine called Massive.
The Palmerston North arm of the student association operates Radio Control, a student radio station based on the Turitea campus. It broadcasts on 99.4 FM, transmitting from an aerial on campus, and streams online. The station was founded in 1981 as 'Masskeradio' and has also been known as 'Radio Massey'. Radio Control's long-time station mascot Gordon the Dinosaur stood to become the Palmerston North MP, promising to build a moving walkway from the city centre to the university campus.
The station is run by paid staff and volunteers, with general interest shows between 07:00 and 19:00, and specialist local music and genre-based shows at night. Radio Control is funded by NZ on Air and the university and regularly hosts live events and broadcasts from various events both on and off the Massey University campus. It has also provided an early platform for New Zealand artists like Benny Tipene, Avalanche City and Evermore.
MAWSA was originally known as WePSA (Wellington Polytechnic Students' Association) and was incorporated in 1975. It became MAWSA and a member of MUSAF when Massey University established it's Wellington Campus. MAWSA publishes Massive Magazine, the national student magazine for all Massey University Campuses.
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