An enduring partnership between Monash University and Energyure is ending after a campaign by staff and students over concerns about the relationship.
Monash University Vice-Chancellor, Prof Sharon Pickeller, appeared before a Senate committee hearing on Wednesday, where she confirmed the end of the year. “
“This is clear in many communications with our wider community [that] They expect us to work on aligning our values and, in fact, to ensure that we always interact with each other in agreement,” said Picksing.
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Picking said that the institution “academic freedom committee” but also “worked to align the values of our university and our community within the school that” […] Whether in woodside or indeed the others. “
“In any future partnering arrangement, the expectation is to align our ESG [environmental and sustainability goals] statements and our responsible framework partner,” he said.
The current partnership agreement, in place since 2019, means Kousside Pays Monash University $43m on top of a warning to quit a winning Melbourne university. It is due to expire at the end of this year.
The arrangement has proved controversial, with staff and students in June raising concerns about a Catho campus at Monash with The Coalition MP Tim Wilson.
The academic board of the university was advised that the partnership in its current form will not be renewed on Tuesday afternoon and the construction of the tree for technology and design will be delayed until 2026.
In separate statements, Monash and Woodside have come to the decision as “Mutual and respectful” and that the engineering faculty “will make good progress in areas of collaboration with Woodside”.
“The faculty of engineering will continue to be supported to pursue future research and industry collaborations in line with our commitments to Esgersensya, our faculty of excellence,” said an academic spokesperson.
A spokeswoman for Wood said they would “continue to explore ways to build on their decade-long research partnership, with prior priorities”.
“Woodside and Monash remain in discussions about opportunities for a future phase of the research partnership,” the company said.
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National Triary Education Pristiano branch president of the union, Ben Eltham, described the partnership as a “dirty deal” and welcomed its end.
“While Monash University is running advertising campaigns about the ‘endangered generation’, the universe is turning millions away from a fossil fuel corporation that causes danger,” he said.
The staff and students involved in the campaign to end the association are slow as a relief and validate despite the efforts to obtain tests of the main information about what is included in it.
They added Monash’s commitment to ESG policies will justify future collaborations and said they will continue to strive to find complete separation between the university and fossil fuels.
Carina Griffin, a Monash University Climent Science Study started at Woodside Monash, a campaign group that says the joining of staff has “decided at the end of staff and students”.