Today, March 28 2013, marks the last business day for the AUC as a consortium of universities. For over 28 years we’ve been able to bring together people from across the tertiary sector in Australia and New Zealand who work with Apple technology to share experience, know-how, and techniques, to undergo training and professional development, and to establish new friendships and build professional networks. It’s been a rich and rewarding partnership without parallel.
As the first incarnation of the AUC winds up, we’d like to thank the many people who’ve supported us over the years – especially those in our member universities who have done so much to promote our programs to their staff and students, to those who’ve presented at our events, and to those who have attended them and help keep them viable.
But today is also about new beginnings, and as the consortium winds up, a new AUC takes over. It still has the same goals as its predecessor. We’re still doing what we can to foster collaboration amongst our membership – initially via our three “world” conferences X World, CreateWorld and /dev/world – and with the hope that we’ll be able to bring other members-only benefits in the future.
The new AUC is an association. For the first time, we’re accepting membership applications from individuals who are staff and students of universities across Australia and New Zealand, as well as AUC alumni. Institutional membership is also open to Australian and New Zealand universities, and also for the first time we will accept departmental membership from schools, faculties and similar organisational units in Australian and New Zealand universities.
We look forward to continuing the outstanding work of the original consortium, and hope you’ll come along with us as we build the next chapter in the history of the AUC.
Tony Gray,
Chair