{"id":14038,"date":"2020-05-20T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/?p=14038"},"modified":"2025-08-27T12:39:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T02:39:19","slug":"discover-our-remarkable-journey-to-being-a-university-of-global-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/2020\/05\/20\/discover-our-remarkable-journey-to-being-a-university-of-global-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover our remarkable journey to being a university of global influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Griffith Archive\u2019s latest online exhibition <a href=\"https:\/\/tourbuilder.withgoogle.com\/builder#present\/ahJzfmd3ZWItdG91cmJ1aWxkZXJyEQsSBFRvdXIYgICg44CLqQoM\">A University of Global Influence<\/a> tells the Griffith story from the initial Cabinet Decision to establish our university in 1965 \u2013 through to the present day. This chronological history of our university is presented in a \u2018tour\u2019 format.<\/p>\n<p>The featured images, videos, publications and artefacts are drawn from the Archive\u2019s extensive collection.\u00a0 A University of Global Influence includes footage of speeches by then Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam during our \u201cCeremony to Commence Teaching\u201d at Nathan Campus in 1975 and an interview with our foundation Vice-Chancellor Professor John Willett discussing our landmark move in establishing partnerships with Chinese universities.<\/p>\n<p>The tour moves across the 1980s through the 1990s and the establishment of the Gold Coast Campus and into 2020 as our current Vice Chancellor and President Carolyn Evans leads commercial agreements to partner in essential parainfluenza research.<\/p>\n<p>You can find <a href=\"https:\/\/tourbuilder.withgoogle.com\/builder#present\/ahJzfmd3ZWItdG91cmJ1aWxkZXJyEQsSBFRvdXIYgICg44CLqQoM\">A University of Global Influence<\/a> and a range of excellent exhibitions and Griffith history at the <a href=\"https:\/\/griffitharchive.griffith.edu.au\/search\/?type=exhibition\">Griffith Archive<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Griffith Archive\u2019s latest online exhibition A University of Global Influence tells the Griffith story from the initial Cabinet Decision to establish our university in 1965 \u2013 through to the present day. This chronological history of our university is presented in a \u2018tour\u2019 format. The featured images, videos, publications and artefacts are drawn from the<a href=\"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/2020\/05\/20\/discover-our-remarkable-journey-to-being-a-university-of-global-influence\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Discover our remarkable journey to being a university of global influence&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":18350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[162],"class_list":["post-14038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-griffith-archive","tag-general"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"Vanessa Gatt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2020\/05\/image-university-of-global-influence.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}